French criminal courts recently resolved an unusual case, which might have had a chilling effect on academic speech, with a judgment that should be welcomed by scholars everywhere.
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The detention of journalists for trying to provide an independent voice on security incidents undermines Western governments' otherwise positive efforts to support free media in Afghanistan in the past 10 years.
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Why does the media focus only on the misery of people with mental disabilities? Would it be too boring to find out that there are real, cost-effective solutions being implemented right now in Kenya?
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Health, Media & Arts, Rights & Equality
Topics: CNN, Croatia, deinstitutionalization, intellectual disability, Judith Klein, Kenya, mental disabilities, mental health
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Armenia offers a case in point in how social media is exerting quiet yet significant influence in broadening public discourse.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability, Media & Arts
Topics: Armenia, Khatchig Mouradian, social media, YouTube
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A year after the earthquake, in a place where many continue to live in tents, why rebuild the gingerbread houses of Haiti?
Posted in: Latin America & the Caribbean, Media & Arts
Topics: earthquake, economic development, Farah Hyppolite, FOKAL, Haiti, reconstruction
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The brutal murder of Ugandan gay activist David Kato moved us to run a memorial tribute in local newspapers. Little did we know it would lead to a lesson in media censorship.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Media & Arts
Topics: Anne Gathumbi, censorship, David Kato, LGBTI, media freedom, Nation Media Group, Open Society Initiative for East Africa, Uganda
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Hungary's new media laws are part of a broad partisan effort to radically reshape the country's democracy. The European Union needs to take the challenge seriously.
Posted in: Europe, Justice, Media & Arts
Topics: Darian Pavli, European Union, freedom of expression, freedom of information, Hungary, media freedom, media independence
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Vera Franz of the Open Society Foundations talks about the importance of reforming intellectual property rights, which affect everything from the availability of textbooks, software, and medicines, as well as innovation in technology and free communication on the Internet.
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To function as a free society and to hold government and its leaders accountable, Haitians need media that conveys facts and the background to make sense of them.
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In this interview Ian Inaba, filmmaker and cofounder of Citizen Engagement Laboratory, explains how underrepresented constituencies can use new media to amplify their voices for social justice.