PRESS RELEASE
ARTICLE 19 launches The Free Flow Principles
On the eve of World Water Day, ARTICLE 19 launches The Free Flow Principles: Freedom of Expression and Rights to Water and Sanitation.The Principles, developed in cooperation with experts and activists from around the world, provide guidance to policy makers and activists on how freedom of expression and information can help secure the rights to water and sanitation. Read more:
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Mexico: Home of ARTICLE 19 Mexico Director raided by intruders
The home of the Director of ARTICLE 19 Mexico and Central America was raided at the weekend. Intruders broke into the house where Dario Ramirez lives with his family and stole computers and paperwork containing information about the organisations work, together with other valuables. This is the fifth serious security incident staff at the Mexico branch of the international free expression organisation have suffered within a year, including a death threat against Ramirez.
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Venezuela: Government must take concrete actions to enable dialogue
After 39 days of widespread protests in Venezuela 31 people have been killed during demonstrations, hundreds injured, 1737 protesters have been arrested, and 70 journalists have been attacked when covering the protests. The Venezuelan State must urgently investigate the violence and the excessive use of force against demonstrators and extend an invitation to UN Special Rapporteurs to visit the country and assess the human rights situation.
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ARTICLE 19 proposes ICANN reform
On 23-24 April 2014, the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (NETmundial 2014) will meet in Brazil to discuss a roadmap for the further evolution of the governance ecosystem. This policy document deals with the place of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in this ecosystem.
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UPDATE
EU: Copyright reform sorely needed
ARTICLE 19 is addressing the International Conference on European Internet Governance and Beyond on the subject of the future of European Copyright Reform.
ARTICLE 19 has raised repeated concerns that the right to freedom of expression has increasingly been eroded by copyright holders using outdated laws to restrict access to online material and seriously limit freedom of expression on the internet Read more >
STATEMENT
We welcome NTIA announcement on transition of key internet domain name functions
ARTICLE 19 and other members of the Best Bits coalition welcome the announcement made by the United States Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of its ‘intent to transition key Internet domain name functions to the global multi-stakeholder community.’
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Syria: Government Arbitrarily Holds Darwish and Colleagues Despite UN Demand
The government of Syria should immediately and unconditionally release the arbitrarily detained human rights defender Mazen Darwish and his colleagues Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghareer, 61 human rights organizations said today. The United Nations Security Council demanded the release of all arbitrarily detained people in Syria on February 22, 2014.
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Tunisia: TTA must be independent and publicly accountable
I am writing to you on behalf of ARTICLE 19, an international freedom of expression organisation, to express our concerns about the lack of safeguards for the independence of the Technical Telecommunication Agency (TTA) of Tunisia
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UNHRC: Oral statement on protection of whistleblowers
Examples of whistleblowers being threatened or prosecuted for revealing information of public interest are on the rise. Also targeted are those who report leaked information
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