The Third Committee of the UN will take the first steps today on voting whether the International Day to End Impunity will become an official day in the UN calendar
UN to vote on official day to end impunity
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Belarus publisher loses licence after printing protest pictures
Exhibition catalogue included pictures of bloodied anti-Lukashenko demonstrator
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
Why no conviction for the men who killed Martin O’Hagan?
On the eve of International Day to End Impunity, the murderers of a Belfast journalist still evade justice, writes Padraig Reidy
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
India: Digital freedom under threat?
The rules India makes for its online users are highly significant – for not only will they apply to 1 in 6 people on earth in the near future as more Indians go online, but as the country emerges as a global power they will shape future debates over freedom of expression online.
United Arab Emirates’ cybercrimes regulation strategically silencing critics
The authorities of the United Arab Emirates are using the 2012 cybercrimes decree crack down on dissent. Rori Donaghy, director of the Emirates Centre for Human Rights, writes
Kuwait: Twitter user imprisoned for five years for ‘insulting’ Muhammad
Musab Shamsah was sentenced for mocking religion and publishing content that could be deemed offensive to religious groups. Alice Kirkland reports
Hooliganism, the dictator’s catch all crime
Former Soviet countries use the vague charge to crack down on protest and dissent, Padraig Reidy writes