- African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists’ rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
- Alert: Police raid opposition party headquarters, arrest protesters amid continuing unrest in Perak State
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) strongly protests continuing police arrests of protesters and a related raid at the headquarters of the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) to eliminate critical expression about the political crisis.
- Amnesty International, Canadian Section
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- ARTICLE 19 launches the Camden Principles on Freedom of Expression and Equality
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
ARTICLE 19 has launched The Camden Principles on Freedom of Expression and Equality, a ground-breaking document that will guide legislators, policy-makers and civil society in balancing the rights to freedom of expression and equality.
- Authorities step up offensive against journalists and websites
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about freedom of expression in Bahrain. In the past couple of months, two journalists have been charged because of what they wrote and the information ministry has stepped up Internet filtering.
- Bloggers invited to compete for special DEUTSCHE WELLE “free expression” prize with Reporters Without Borders
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, today announced the start of its sixth annual international Best of the Blogs award, The BOBs.
- Campaign for Freedom of Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
CFI Canada isl inaugurating the Campaign for Free Expression, an ongoing series of events, activities and political initiatives in support of freedom of inquiry, thought and expression.
- Canadian Authors Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- Egypt: Security authorities confiscate book about corruption
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reports that the Egyptian security authorities have confiscated a book entitled "A Flood of Corruption and the Advance of bin Laden in Algeria" by the Algerian writer, Anwar Malek.
- Fame & Fortune Online
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
- 50 Ways to Fight Censorship
And Important Facts to Know about Censors
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
- Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
- '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.
- 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.
- Freedom of expression “systematically violated” in Tibet
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the systematic violation of press freedom and free expression in Tibet.
- Freedom of expression under attack in every region, say IFEX members on International Human Rights Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
To mark International Human Rights Day IFEX members paused to comment on violations of free expression as they commemorated the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Freedom of Expressions Award 2009 Shortlist Announced
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Index on Censorship announces the shortlist for the 2009 Freedom of Expression Awards.
- Geneva: Withdrawal by States from Durban Review Major Setback for Freedom of Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
ARTICLE 19 and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies are extremely concerned by the recent decision of the USA, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands to withdraw from the UN anti-racism conference, otherwise known as the Durban Rreview.
- 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.
- IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' Association
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
International Federation of Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to end the campaign of intimidation of journalists in the country following closure of the Association of Journalists in Tehran whose offices were raided and sealed by armed men.
- Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
- Journalists Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism Laws
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Ministers of the human rights network of the Council of Europe have called on their governments to review anti-terrorism laws in the face of strong criticism from journalists that some laws are in practice limiting free expression and press rights.
- 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.
- Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Published: 2010
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
- 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).
- Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
- Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser: Silence Tastes Bad… Put Free Speech on the Menu.
Artists and supporters speak out for freedom of association at the launch of the Koffler Gallery fundraiser, ARTFUL DISH, Thursday, June 4, 10 AM.
- 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.
- WiPC issues a call for solidarity for persecuted writers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
To mark the Day of the Imprisoned Writer (DoIW) on 15 November, the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (WiPC) is highlighting the cases of imprisoned writers and honouring those who have been slain for defending free speech.
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