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Guest Post: Hate speech laws in Canada: one step back, two steps forward?
This year has seen significant developments in Canada’s hate speech legislation, say attorneys Ryder Gilliland and Adam Lazier.
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INDEX EVENTS 18 July New World (Dis)Order: What do Turkey, Russia and Brazil tell us about freedom and rights? Index, in partnership with the European Council on Foreign Relations, is holding a timely debate on the shifting world order and its...
Free expression in the news
INDEX EVENTS 18 July New World (Dis)Order: What do Turkey, Russia and Brazil tell us about freedom and rights? Index, in partnership with the European Council on Foreign Relations, is holding a timely debate on the shifting world order and its...
Free expression in the news
INDEX EVENTS 18 July New World (Dis)Order: What do Turkey, Russia and Brazil tell us about freedom and rights? Index, in partnership with the European Council on Foreign Relations, is holding a timely debate on the shifting world order and its...
Free expression in the news
INDEX EVENTS 18 July New World (Dis)Order: What do Turkey, Russia and Brazil tell us about freedom and rights? Index, in partnership with the European Council on Foreign Relations, is holding a timely debate on the shifting world order and its...

Snowden leaks open up the great question of our age
Whatever happens to the NSA whistleblower, the repercussions of his actions are sure to endure
Free expression in the news
INDEX EVENTS 18 July New World (Dis)Order: What do Turkey, Russia and Brazil tell us about freedom and rights? Index, in partnership with the European Council on Foreign Relations, is holding a timely debate on the shifting world order and its...
Sri Lanka flirts with press regulation
Is Sri Lanka’s President Rajapaksa, identified as an “enemy of the press”, taking lessons from Leveson, asks Padraig Reidy
Free expression in the news
INDEX EVENTS 18 July New World (Dis)Order: What do Turkey, Russia and Brazil tell us about freedom and rights? Index, in partnership with the European Council on Foreign Relations, is holding a timely debate on the shifting world order and its...
Free expression in the news
INDEX EVENTS 18 July New World (Dis)Order: What do Turkey, Russia and Brazil tell us about freedom and rights? Index, in partnership with the European Council on Foreign Relations, is holding a timely debate on the shifting world order and its...

Burma’s lower house passes restrictive press law
Going against its own Press Council, parliamentarians in Burma have passed a restrictive new press law that will restrict freedom of the press, Mike Harris reports.