ARTICLE 19

As London hosts the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit this week, ARTICLE 19 releases a new briefing assessing the progress made towards meeting the SDG on freedom of expression and access to information.

Access to court documents is important to ensuring transparency of the judiciary and is a precondition for establishing and maintaining public trust in the judiciary.

ARTICLE 19 warns that the introduction of penalties may lead to arbitrary restrictions on the freedom of expression.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calls on the judiciary to purge dissenting voices online.

In Malaysia, minority groups, including ethnic and religious minorities, migrants, and LGBTQI+ persons are most often victims of hate speech.

“It is vital that all existing human rights commitments are integrated and mainstreamed throughout the GDC. States must ensure complementarity, coherence, and consistency between the GDC and existing international human rights commitments” – ARTICLE 19

Marking the Day of the Political Prisoner in Belarus, civil society groups, IFEX among them, stress that they will continue to show unwavering support to the people of Belarus repressed for exercising their vital human rights and journalistic work.

“ARTICLE 19 is concerned that making some users of social media liable for third-party content – namely comments – under their social media posts will have a significant chilling effect on the right to freedom of expression.”