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• in Politics
  Freedom of Expression Award Winners
  Index on Censorship Presents its Awards for Freedom of Expression
  by nalood / on Mar 25, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “freedom of expression”

 

• ‘Operation Total Eradication’? Russia NGO crackdown threatens leading pollster

  
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      Russia’s NGO law branding overseas-funded groups as foreign agents is impeding the country’s civil society development, says a former Finance Minister. “The law on NGOs as foreign agents that the Duma has passed is a clear restriction of …
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• Setback for Afghan women’s rights, but ‘civil society blossoms’

  
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  Afghanistan’s parliament has rejected a law banning violence against women in “a severe blow to progress made in women’s rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ago,” Reuters reports : President Hamid …
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• In crackdown on NGOs’ foreign funding, India follows the ‘sicks among the BRICs’

  
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  “Amid an intensifying crackdown on nongovernmental groups that receive foreign funding, Indian activists are accusing the government of stifling their right to dissent in the world’s largest democracy,” The Washington Post’s Rama Lakshmi , reports from New Delhi : India …
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• Nikky nakky noos

  
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  S o Stephen Gough is back in the papers.. For those of who may not have heard of him, he is the naked rambler.  Well according to the BBC News Website they state that he was fined £1800 for walking around naked in the Hampshire area.. which has been waived in lieu of his time in custody. The District Judge ...
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• ‘Politics is not for superheroes’

  
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    “I’m a trouble maker. I’ve been one all my life,” Laura Alonso told Lillian Cunningham : Alonso, an outspoken congresswoman in Argentina representing Buenos Aires, ….. took office in December 2009, after years of working as an activist for …
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• U.S. Government Funding for Media Assistance: Trends and Strategies

  
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  The realm of U.S. government assistance for media development is in flux. Based on funding statistics, U.S. government support for international media development is in decline. But does this mesh with realities on the ground? The process and variety of …
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• Catastrophic news for the regime: Inflation at 4.3% and RCTV revenge

  
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  The regime got two major knockdowns today. It had to admit, confess, after a week delay, that  inflation for April was 4.3% .  Think about this: how many countries in the world have an ANNUAL inflation BELOW 4.3%?  To make things worse, the central bank also confessed to a scarcity index of almost 30%, which ...
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• Dual ‘Salafist jihadist’ threat to Tunisia’s transition

  
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    Tunisia’s major parties may have ended a months-old stalemate by negotiating a provisional agreement on the country’s future constitution, but the country’s democratic transition faces an overlapping threat from violent jihadists and ultra-conservative Salafists, say analysts.   “We have ...
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• The 4 Billion Dollar Internet Policing Project !

  
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  This generation of Facebook and Twitter users have been strong commentator’s be it cinema , politics or sports . It’s huge shock when there are several reports that the Government of India (GoI) is implementing the 4 billion $ ICMS (Indian Central Monitoring System). So now what’s the big deal about this ICMS ? ...
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• International coalitions continue to work toward artistic freedom

  
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  WNN GlobalARTS (WNN/Culture360) Copenhagen, DENMARK, WESTERN EUROPE: There are even less organizations dedicated to protecting and defending the basic rights of the artists themselves. Founded in 1921, PEN International is the oldest organization devoted to freedom of artistic expression for writers. PEN’s Writers ...
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• Pakistan’s women push for the right to vote

  
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  “Fears over the safety of women voting in next week’s elections in Pakistan are rising after letters have been circulated in regions of the country warning men not to allow their wives, sisters and daughters out to the polling stations,” …
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• Hungary: Government Limits FOIA Transparency Law

  
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  In an unexpected move last week, Parliamentarians in Hungary took action to change the countrys Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in an effort to limit the scope of data accessible to the public under the law. The Freedom of Information Act, known as Act CXII of 2011 in Hungary , is vital to the work of Hungarian ...
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• China’s cyber-attacks target USG – and dissidents

  
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  The Obama administration has for the first time explicitly blamed the Chinese military for launching cyber-attacks on the U.S government and various defense contractors. The cyber-attacks are a “ serious concern ” as U.S. computer systems “continued to be targeted …
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• Who Wants to Kill Honduran Journalist Héctor Longino Becerra?

  
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  If you care about the crucial role of human rights defenders as much as Amnesty International, you want to know the answer to this question. Longino Bacerra is the Executive Director of the Committee for Free Expression, C-Libre. On April 20, an anonymous caller warned him, “I lead a campaign to kill you, your ...
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• UNO – Report on cultural rights

  
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  Report on the right to freedom of artistic expression and creativity In this report , the Special Rapporteur Mrs Farida Shaheed addresses the multi-faceted ways in which the right to the freedom indispensable for artistic expression and creativity may be curtailed. She reflects upon the growing worldwide concern ...
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• Saudi Arabia: new rights group faces harassment

  
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  “Four Saudi activists are under investigation after forming a human rights group on April 3, 2013, and could face prosecution for ‘establishing an illegal organization,’ Human Rights Watch said today : Saudi authorities should immediately cease harassing the four founding …
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• USAID develops ‘bad reputation’ among autocrats

  
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  Bolivia expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development last week because the agency doesn’t just offer paternalistic aid to the poor, it also advances democracy by promoting their empowerment. “It was a familiar charge for the State Department’s principal foreign …
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• Kerry must raise ‘existential threat to Russian civil society’ as opposition aims to revive anti-Putin protests

  
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      “Thousands of people turned out Monday for a protest here that was intended to draw attention to what organizers said was the return of political prosecutions in the Russian courts,” The New York Times’ Andrew E. Kramer reports …
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• ‘The Dark Road’ and Ma Jian on Censorship

  
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  Following the UK release of his latest novel, The Dark Road , the Index on Censorship talks to exiled writer Ma Jian about his career, Beijing’s longstanding ban on his work, the value of free expression, the legacy of Tiananmen, nationalism, and dissent amid strict censorship : A review of the  The Dark ...
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