{"id":56095,"date":"2014-03-25T15:13:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T15:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=56095"},"modified":"2017-03-27T13:12:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T12:12:20","slug":"conversation-un-free-speech-rapporteur-frank-la-rue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=56095","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with UN free speech rapporteur Frank La Rue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_55389\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/960788.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55389\" class=\"wp-image-55389\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/960788.jpg\" alt=\"(Image: Mahmoud Illean\/Demotix) \" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/960788.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/960788-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/960788-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image: Mahmoud Illean\/Demotix)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Frank La Rue,\u00a0UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, will be interviewed by\u00a0Index on Censorship\u2019s CEO Kirsty Hughes, on his experience surrounding digital freedom while in office.<\/p>\n<p>Frank La Rue is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.indexoncensorship.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/cms\/index.php\/component\/chronocontact\/\" target=\"_blank\">a lawyer<\/a>\u00a0and current Director of the Centro-American Institute for Social Democracy Studies (DEMOS) in Guatemala. He holds a degree in law from the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.indexoncensorship.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/cms\/index.php\/component\/chronocontact\/\" target=\"_blank\">postgraduate degree<\/a>\u00a0in U.S. foreign policy from Johns Hopkins University. He was also a professor of human rights at the University of Rafael Lavinder de Guatemala. La Rue has worked extensively on human rights issues, and as founding member and Director of the Centre for Legal Human Rights Action (CALDH), he was involved in presenting the first Guatemalan human rights case before the Inter-American Court for Human Rights. Mr. La Rue also brought the first case of genocide against the military dictatorship in Guatemala. As a human rights activist, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.indexoncensorship.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/cms\/index.php\/component\/chronocontact\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prize<\/a>\u00a0in 2004. La Rue has been serving as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression since August 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for this exciting insight into digital freedom between leaders in the field from 4pm (GMT) on Wednesday 26 March. The event will be live streamed on Google+ <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/events\/c5vm0s8013ictgtos7qis7ntp4g\">here<\/a>\u00a0as well as via Index&#8217;s YouTube account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KBn_pjWvwf4\">here<\/a>. Get involved with your questions prior to the event via Twitter or during the live stream on Google+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Index hosts a Google Hangout with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":55389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[6282,921,7399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56095"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87716,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56095\/revisions\/87716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}