The Justice Secretary has committed the government to changing English defamation law. Index on Censorship reports
Libel Reform Campaign welcomes Jack Straw’s commitment to change – asks will Cameron commit?
Today Google announced that it would no longer be censoring its search services in China. Rebecca MacKinnon talks to Google’s David Drummond about privacy, censorship and China, providing a valuable insight into Google’s thinking
Let your MP know about the threat to free expression from English libel law and join us at the House of Commons on Tuesday 23rd at 2pm
Focus, partnership and joined-up advocacy in defence of human rights – the UK Foreign Office’s lost vocation, as revealed by the diplomats’ own annual report.
Rohan Jayasekera comments
Silvio Berlusconi’s schemes to gag dissenting voices seem to have been revealed in a series of intercepted phone calls. But it may be too late to redress the balance, says Giulio D’Eramo
Honouring those who, often at great personal risk, have fought to expose censorship and abuse
Awards auction: Lots include villas in France & Italy, a Patrick Hughes painting and a guitar lesson with Mark Knopfler
Libel Reform Campaign welcomes Jack Straw’s commitment to libel reform – asks will Cameron commit?
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Documentary maker Erik Gandini tells Giulio D’Eramo why appearance matters more than truth in Italy
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Rebecca MacKinnon talks to David Drummond about privacy, censorship and China
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Stephen Spender Prize for original poetry translation. Deadline Friday 28 May 2010
Free Iranian Journalists: Maziar Bahari presents Our society will be a free society – Friday 19 March
Opposition voices targeted to silence them before parliamentary elections says Index’s Rohan Jayasekera