Index on Censorship

The sad fact is that Pakistan’s new enthusiasm for blasphemy laws is not an international aberration, reports Index on Censorship. Nor is this a trend confined to confessional Islamic states.

A new law proposed by Attorney-General George Brandis outlines a number of reforms to “modernise and improve” Australia’s capabilities to tackle national security threats. If passed, it could have significant implications for Australian media.

A group of experts on Pakistan and its media recently came together, under the auspices of the Commonwealth Journalists Association and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London to discuss the threats facing the country’s journalists.

Traveling in Poland as part of a trip for theatre directors, Jeff James reflects on the uproar over a controversial play, Golgata Picnic

IFEX members reflect on the broader implications of “The Right to be Forgotten” ruling, which allows individuals to demand that embarrassing information about themselves be removed from search engine results.

With the World Cup in the rear view mirror, Simone Marques explores Brazil’s battle over censorship of unauthorised biographies and the last-minute amendment that could cause more trouble.

Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize died at age 90. Three of her books – Burger’s Daughter, A World of Strangers and The Late Bourgeois World – were banned by the apartheid regime.

An Irish court has created a precedent where damage to a person’s reputation could lead to criminal sanction — and no one seems to have noticed.