Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
This report focuses on the repression of freedom of expression through the web space that targeted activists and bloggers on the internet through killing threats and detention leading to a state of extreme self-censorship.
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Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
The coming week will mark the one-year anniversary of an unusual chapter in the unfolding WikiLeaks saga: the naming of Bradley Manning, a young military-intelligence analyst and Private First Class in the United States Army, as the source of…
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Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
Nations must pay more than lip service to the idea of indigenous rights if they hope to seriously address problems like species loss and climate change, say delegates at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, a U.N.
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Families of protesters are accusing Syrian security forces of torturing their relatives in custody. An Al Jazeera exclusive shows their testimonies on the Ba…
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Three events of the last 24 hours demonstrate how individual privacy is destroyed while government secrecy grows.
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An Eritrean who now works as an interpreter for Save the Children in Lampedusa has broken the silence on pushbacks by Malta and Italy to Libya,…
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While we are still desperately concealing, denying and repressing our major ethnic cleansing of 1948 – over 600,000 refugees, some who fled for fear of the Israel Defense Forces and its predecessors, some who were expelled by force – it turns out…
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Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
Last year’s controversial COICA bill is about to be replaced with the updated PROTECT IP Act, which extends its censorship to search engines.
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I am especially grateful to be here as the first speaker in your Gorbachev Series of Lectures on Press Freedom, as my family have a long and close connection with…
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