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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
European Union to further reduce the UN human rights budget
In a joint letter to Baroness Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Index on Censorship has joined 66 human rights NGOs from European Union member States, States...
Stop Digital Arms campaign launched
Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake has launched a campaign that aims to stop European businesses selling surveillance equipment to authoritarian regimes. In an email, Schaake explained: "It is unacceptable that EU made technologies are still exported,...
On Leveson, language and topsy-turviness
A response to the Media Standards Trust’s Martin Moore
French magazine raises specter of racism and press freedoms
An obscure 16 page-long French far-right magazine recently put France’s black justice minister Christiane Taubira on its cover, comparing her to a monkey. Valeria Costa-Kostritsky reports on the fallout
We must demand an end to the culture of impunity
On the eve of the International Day To End Impunity, we look back at the journalists intimidated, attacked and killed in 2013
What did Russia block this autumn?
Andrei Soldatov looks at the websites authorities have been censoring over the past months
Hooliganism, the dictator’s catch all crime
Former Soviet countries use the vague charge to crack down on protest and dissent, Padraig Reidy writes
Transcriber Lesley Kemp celebrates after Twitter libel case dropped
Qatar-based plaintiff refused to post security to London court. Padraig Reidy reports
Macedonia: ‘Critical media is vanishing’
Following the arrest of a journalist on espionage charges, the heads of Macedonia’s journalist association and trade union explain the decline of the country’s media freedom