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One of the essential features of the Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures is the country visit. OHCHR describes country visits as follows: Mandate-holders carry out country visits to assess the situation of human rights at the national level: at the

Khadija Ismayilova, an internationally respected investigative journalist in Azerbaijan, has published numerous pieces uncovering high-level corruption over the course of her career. The target of numerous government-inspired attacks on her credibility and privacy, Azerbaijani authorities charged her with “incitement to

I have been in Oslo for the past day in order to celebrate the Norwegian Government’s launch of a new strategy that puts freedom of expression at the center of its human rights policy. My colleague in the OSCE, Dunja

I participated today in a meeting at the United Nations organized by the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Security Council. The focus was “on preventing and combatting abuse of ICT for terrorist purposes.” Despite the description, there was considerable nuance, with