Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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13 Jan, 2021

Al Jazeera Media Network in Lusaka

The delegation’s most consequential engagement of the day took place away from the main conference floor. Al Haj, Van Meek and Bayes secured a private…

7 May, 2026

Press & The Machinery of Suppression

UNESCO’s assessment places the current decline in a broader historical frame. The deterioration in global press freedom since 2012 is, the organisation concludes, comparable in…

6 May, 2026

Journalism: Uncomfortable Assumptions  

The Americas more broadly are suffering. Argentina has fallen 11 places to 98th under a government whose contempt for established media has been an explicit…

6 May, 2026

Journalism in the Central Sahel: Choose the Junta’s Narrative or Leave

In Burkina Faso, four journalists and columnists were forcibly conscripted into the army in 2024; the fate of one remains unknown. Amnesty International spoke to…

5 May, 2026