From data leaks and criminal hacks to smear campaigns, BIRN’s digital rights monitoring team documented widespread privacy violations and assaults on freedom of speech across Southeast Europe in July.

ARTICLE 19 analyses the new ordinance and proposes amendments to ensure that digital rights are protected. This statement was originally published on article19.org on 30 May 2025. The 2025 Bangladesh ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned on Wednesday that repression of freedom of expression across the Middle East has deepened significantly since the US-Israeli attacks on Iran commenced. In ...

Over the course of the last sixteen months, the public sphere has witnessed an assault on rights to free expression and freedom of assembly unlike anything since the Communist witch hunts and Lavender ...

Held from 24 to 27 March 2026 at Tribhuvan University, the workshop brought together over 90 participants, including regulators, parliamentarians, policymakers, civil society representatives, ...

From their very founding, the State of Wyoming and University of Wyoming (UW) have regarded equality as a source of strength and pride. When Wyoming gained statehood in 1889, its Constitution ...

Is it antisemitic to protest the State of Israel for its military occupation of Palestinian territory and its policies toward Palestinians that deny them basic political rights, including the right of ...

On Sunday, I wrote, with regard to my new article on freedom of speech and college antisemitism: Coauthor David L. Bernstein and I spend a fair amount of space recounting examples of antisemitic ...

Donald Trump and numerous right-wing European governments have created a “chilling effect” that is causing creatives across ...

IFEX and rights groups denounce the censorship of independent media as a politically motivated crackdown, imposed without due process and in violation of free expression protections. This statement ...