In its annual global survey, the Committee to Protect Journalists found at least 274 journalists in jail in relation to their work on December 1, 2020, exceeding the high of 272 in 2016
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Three priorities for President Biden and Vice President Harris to show global digital leadership | World Wide Web Foundation
The US has the opportunity to show positive leadership on technology and human rights
Read More »Anniversary of the Genocide Convention: 9 December 1948 | Rene Wadlow
An Unused but not Forgotten Standard of World Law
Read More »Today is International Human Rights Day | United Nations
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home -- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.
Read More »The real threat to democracy isn’t Julian Assange — it’s the espionage case against him | Waging Nonviolence
As the Yes Men, we have complicated feelings about Assange. But prosecuting him under the Espionage Act would be a disaster for journalism and democracy.
Read More »Improved rights for migrant workers in the Middle East | SDC
There are many further steps to be taken, not least to ensure that workers can count on the justice system if their rights are not respected.
Read More »Vietnamese activist and journalist Pham Doan Trang arrested for ‘anti-state propaganda’ | Global Voices
Doan Trang also co-founded the Vietnam Legal Initiative, a United States-based NGO working to promote human rights in Vietnam.
Read More »DHS Used Unmarked Vans to Transport Migrants to Border of Guatemala | Foreign Policy
While some of us worry that the US will become an authoritarian nightmare, for others it already is.
Read More »As Major Outlets Ignore Assange Extradition Hearing, Ai Weiwei Demands Freedom for WikiLeaks Founder | Common Dreams News
"He truly represents a core value of why we are free—because we have freedom of the press," Weiwei said.
Read More »US moves to ban imports tied to forced Uighur labor in China’s Xinjiang region | ICIJ
U.S. lawmakers stepped up their efforts to stop China’s human rights violations against Uighurs after reports emerged documenting forced labor
Read More »Journalists face sedition charges under cybercrime law in Pakistan | Global Voices
First Information Reports are being registered against journalists for being “Anti state and for propagating against the army on social media”
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