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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): What role for freedom of expression?
Your State has committed to ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms. This is what the Sustainable Development Goal 16.10 affirms. Is your government meeting its commitment? Help monitor its progress – and contribute to it!
This is one in a series of IFEX explainers aimed at strengthening the ability of civil society to engage in global spaces for free expression advocacy. To visit the hub page and see the whole set, click here.
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IFEX condemns Bahrain’s decision to uphold Nabeel Rajab’s 5-year prison sentence
On 31 December 2018, the Bahraini Court of Cassation upheld renowned human rights defender Nabeel Rajab’s 5-year prison sentence for tweeting.
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Bolsonaro’s arrival in Brazil: An uncertain and frightening prospect for human rights
The New Year is arriving with little to celebrate in Brazil: activists are warning that the new president poses a serious threat to human rights.
![Supporters of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak (portrait) watch his trial live on a laptop outside Maadi military hospital in Cairo, 29 November 2014, KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/egypt-cybercrime-national-security-getty.jpg)
Egypt now: A conversation with Amira Abdelhamid
Amira Abdelhamid shares her thoughts on how legislation is being used to close civic space in Egypt.
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How “national security” rhetoric and laws are being used to shut down Egypt’s civic space
IFEX examines how the Egyptian government has been manipulating fears over national security as part of its widespread crackdown on activists, lawyers and journalists.
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Campaign Snapshot: Taking on iTunes over censorship
In 2018, SMEX launched a petition in collaboration with the Lebanese band Al-Rahel Al-Kabir to make their songs – which had been censored from iTunes Middle East – available on the platform.
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One year after suspects arrested, still no justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia
Nine international freedom of expression, press freedom, and professional journalists’ organisations condemn the lack of progress in the case of the investigative journalist.
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Reformist talk, repressive action: Stop the assault on Saudi women activists, online and off
Israa Al-Ghomgham stands to become the first woman in Saudi Arabia to face capital punishment for human rights activism – one ‘first’ that has received scant media attention.
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How blood money is worsening impunity and media killings in Pakistan
So-called “blood money” laws and practices may offer a faster route to a minimum threshold of justice, but legal scholars warn they can also lead to grave abuses while enabling the cycle of killings to continue.
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Breaking it Down: The 2018 infographic on the dangers of impunity and UNESCO’s call for accountability
A visualisation of key information from the 2018 UNESCO Director General’s report on the Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity.
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A new path to justice in Latin America: Inter-American Court sets historic precedent in case of journalist assassinated in Colombia
The case could be of crucial importance as a judicial precedent and source of legal resources to achieve similar results in other cases.
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Campaign snapshot: Using humour to tackle gender violence online
In Colombia a powerful fight against online gender violence is underway, using a tool destined to become a movement in its own right.
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Organisations call on Cambodia to step up the fight against endemic impunity
To mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, civil society groups and communities in Cambodia and beyond condemn the rampant impunity for attacks against journalists and human rights defenders, and call for immediate action to bring all perpetrators to account.
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The Bees Are Coming, or: When a swarm is a good thing
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the ensuing cover-up were carried out by people who apparently believed they were untouchable. And why wouldn’t they? On this fifth International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the guilty are still rarely held to account.
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Rights groups call for public inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder
The public inquiry must be completely independent of the Maltese police, government and politicians, and it should be conducted by a panel of respected international judges with no political or government links.
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Azerbaijan: Denationalisation being used as a tool to stifle freedom of expression
IMS, IFEX, CPJ, and the ISLP have submitted a joint third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Emin Huseynov.