Civil Rights
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Historic vote in Australian parliament on Julian Assange
The Australian House of Representatives passed a motion introduced by Tasmanian Independent, Andrew Wilkie on behalf of the Parliamentary Friends…
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Hungary: Media Curbs Harm Rule of Law
EU Action Needed to Tackle Declining Press Freedom, Pluralism The Hungarian government’s interference with media freedom obstructs journalists from holding…
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Another Niger Media Organization Suspended
The interior minister of Niger’s decision this week to suspend the activities of Maison de la Presse (Press House), an independent media organization,…
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Assange’s Rights and Press Freedom Hang in the Balance
Meanwhile, the American demand that Wikileaks publisher Assange stand trial in Virginia on trumped-up charges is what has kept this…
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Behind Bars for ‘Blasphemy’ in Indonesia
This month marks the third year behind bars for 74-year-old Apollinaris Darmawan. Andreas Harsono He was convicted under Indonesian law for…
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16-12-2023 – George Bizos ICON: Film Screening
Agora Dialogue presents a special tribute documentary on George Bizos, the highly esteemed lawyer of Nelson Mandela ‘George Bizos ICON’…
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Civil wrongs
Labor probably thought this would be a week where they got some credit for plans to improve press freedoms – even if…
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Nobel peace prize: Narges Mohammadi wins on behalf of thousands of Iranian women struggling for human rights
Mohammadi is serving multiple prison sentences in Evin prison in Tehran on charges which include spreading propaganda against the state.…
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Past Time to End the Persecution of Julian Assange
His flagrantly unjust incarceration is a global scandal, and the world is quite upset about it. Eve Ottenberg CounterPunch Indeed,…
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Declaration of Pan-Cyprian Mobilization for the Freedom of Cyprus
Today, on the 49th Anniversary of the Turkish invasion, 49 citizens of the Republic of Cyprus from both the occupied…
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How Governments and Civil Society Can Help China’s Uyghurs
Since late 2016, the Chinese government has vastly expanded its harsh repression of the Turkic Muslim population in Xinjiang, in…
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UN Experts Find War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity in Libya
United Nations experts have concluded that security forces and armed groups in Libya may have committed a “wide array of war…
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The Whitlam government gave us no-fault divorce, women’s refuges and childcare. Australia needs another feminist revolution
Australia’s history of women and political rights is, to put it mildly, chequered. Angela Woollacott The Conversation It enfranchised (white)…
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AMA calls for governments to implement royal commission recommendations on Aboriginal deaths in custody
The Australian Medical Association is calling on governments to divert people away from incarceration and implement the recommendations of the…
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Iran probes ‘deliberate’ poisoning of schoolgirls across the country
Iranian authorities say they are investigating the poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls across the country. Aina J. Khan NBCnews The mysterious incidents may…
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Press freedom deteriorates in South-East Asia as despots crush dissent
Fearless journalism is losing its voice in the region as state censorship and dictators close media outlets and threaten and…
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