1. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression – they are for it ‘in principle’, but only so long as it isn’t used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
   
2. Free speech for me - you shut up
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
   
3. Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning “defamation of religions” which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
4. Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders condemns “with the utmost firmness” a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect on 1 January.
5. More than 180 Rights Organisations Reject Defamation of Religions Campaign
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   More than 180 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to oppose a "defamation of religions" campaign at the UN mounted by Islamic states that would make criticising religion a crime in UN resolutions, declarations and world conferences.
6. Outrage at UN Human Rights Council resolution on defamation of religions
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   In the resolution it adopted yesterday on the defamation of religions, the United Nations Human Rights Council has yet again demonstrated its inability to defend the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
7. Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and NGO has delivered a statement strongly opposing the proposed "Combating the Defamation of Religions" resolution backed by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
8. 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.

Experts on Religious Criticism in the Sources Directory

1. Women Living Under Muslim Law