UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression
This report focuses on the freedom of opinion and expression aspects of academic freedom.
This research report provides an overview of the human rights law framework applicable to artistic freedom of expression, highlights contemporary threat and provides recommendations for States, private actors and civil society.
The report is written with a sense of urgency about the kinds of steps that are necessary and appropriate to protect everyone’s right to freedom of opinion and expression during this and any future pandemic.
The present report explains how international human rights standards provide a framework for Governments considering regulatory options and companies determining how to respect human rights online.
This new report examines the problem of targeted surveillance and the regulation of the public-private collaboration in the sale, transfer, use and after-sales support of surveillance technologies.
This week, the Special Rapporteurs on freedom of expression, human rights and counter-terrorism, and the situation of human rights defenders urged the Australian Parliament to reconsider a Bill that would unfairly and severely penalize whistle-blowers, journalists, and activists. While the
GENEVA (16 February 2018) – A group of United Nations experts* has issued a fresh call to the Turkish authorities to release the chair of Amnesty International Turkey, Taner Kiliç, who has been held since June 2017 on terrorism charges.
GENEVA (31 January 2018) – A new law adopted in Mauritania represents a positive attempt to tackle discrimination, but raises major concerns for human rights and must be reformed, a group of UN human rights experts has said. “We are
GENEVA (25 January 2018) – The Philippines Government must halt moves to shut down independent news website Rappler, a group of UN human rights experts* have said. “We are gravely concerned that the government is moving to revoke Rappler’s licence,”