The Future of Internet Rights: A conversation with Industry’s Leaders: 25 January
PAST EVENT: The Future of Internet Rights: A conversation with Industry’s Leaders
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Emily Butselaar
PAST EVENT: Barack Obama’s foreign policy one year on
Panel: Barack Obama’s foreign policy one year on: 21 January
Unesco World Press Freedom Prize 2010 deadline
Unesco World Press Freedom Prize 2010 nomination deadline:15 February
PAST EVENT: Breaking Borders Award nomination deadline
Breaking Borders Award nomination deadline:15 February
US lifts travel ban on Tariq Ramadan
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lifted the travel ban on two prominent Muslim scholars, Tariq Ramadan and Adam Habib. The American Civil Liberties Union had been due to challenge Ramadan's ban in federal court yesterday. Jameel Jaffer,...
Barack Obama one year on: Secrets and lies
Secrets and lies, Obama one year on
In the shadow of Mugabe
The new coalition government in Zimbabwe has so far failed to deliver on its promise of greater media freedom, says Stanley Kwenda
The right to veil
Suggesting banning women from dressing how they please is deeply offensive says Jess McCabe
Zimbabwe: Journalist flees death threats
Journalist Stanley Kwenda has fled to South Africa after alleging that he received a death threat by telephone from a senior police officer, linked to a story he wrote in The Zimbabwean. The newspaper says that "‘impeccable sources" have supplied...
UGANDA: WOMEN ARRESTED AFTER PROTEST AT ELECTORAL OFFICE
On 18 January at least 30 women were detained in Kampala while attempting to deliver a petition calling for the resignation of the electoral commission chief Badru Kiggundu, who they say is unable to organise credible and fair elections, scheduled...
Kenya: Protests over cleric’s deportation lead to five deaths
Following violent clashes in Nairobi on 16 January that left five dead, Kenyan police have arrested more than 300 people, including 16 Somali MPs. Last week's demonstration were organized to demand the release of Abdullah Al-Faisal, the...
Nick Clegg comes out in support of the Libel Reform campaign
Nick Clegg praises the Libel Reform Campaign