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ARTICLE 19 joins the global community on International Women’s Day to celebrate the leadership and contribution of thousands of women around the world who strive for women’s equality and empowerment through their daily work.
ARTICLE 19 reaffirms the importance of gender equality as a key component of the right to freedom of expression. As ARTICLE 19 [...]
ARTICLE 19 expresses grave concerns that press freedom in Rwanda is deteriorating and that criminal charges being brought against journalists in Rwanda will contribute to the silencing of independent media voices ahead of the presidential elections later this year.
The concern comes in the wake of tough prison sentences and fines handed to three members of [...]
On the occasion of the presidential inauguration last week, ARTICLE 19 and International Media Support (IMS) sent an open letter to the newly elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, urging him to respond immediately to serious shortcomings within the legislative and policy framework related to freedom of expression and freedom of media in Ukraine.
In [...]
ARTICLE 19, together with other human rights organisations, urges the Georgian government to stop pressurising and intimidating prominent Georgian investigative journalist Vakhtang Komakhidze.
Komakhidze reported receiving death threats from the Georgian authorities on 10 February. He had recently returned from a visit to South Ossetia where he has been producing a documentary examining the 2008 [...]
Kate Tempest is a rapper, poet and playwright. She has performed consistently and comprehensively since she began rapping in battles at 16. Since then she has continued to develop her skills as a writer and a performer, and has made a name for herself in the UK hip hop, spoken word and live music scenes. [...]
Read More »A high-level mission of seven international organisations that visited Honduras in November, after last year’s military coup have today released a report analysing the situation for the media and journalists in that country.
The overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya on 28 June 2009 by opposition members led by Roberto Micheletti caused the worst political crisis that [...]
From Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Speach blog by Padraig Reidy
Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe often carries out cutting features on how news reporting is driven by celebrity and the desperate need for anything that would constitute an “exclusive”.
So it seemed obvious that Brooker would team up with the people behind Starsuckers for a segment on the [...]
More than sixty media, civil society and human rights representatives from the North Caucasus gathered in Moscow yesterday, together with leading Russian NGOs to discuss joint actions for improving the state of freedom of expression in the North Caucasus.
Organised jointly by ARTICLE 19 and its partners, the Media Defence Centre, based in Voronezh and the [...]
ARTICLE 19 calls on Gustavo Salas Chávez, newly appointed Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against the Media, to promote and guarantee effective investigation of aggression against journalists and combat Mexico’s prevailing culture of impunity.
Chávez replaces Octavio Orellana, who was widely regarded as ineffective at stemming the number of attacks and murders of media workers in Mexico. [...]
ARTICLE 19 today releases its analysis of a Draft Law on Access to Information in Ghana, and recommends several amendments to bring the Law in line with international standards. This analysis goes public in advance of the African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information, taking place from 7-9 February in Accra, Ghana.
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Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy 
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