8 March 2010
International Women’s Day: ARTICLE 19 Affirms the Rights of Women with the Right to Free Expression
ARTICLE 19 joins the global community on International Women’s Day to celebrate the leadership and contribution of thousands of women around the world who strive for women’s equality and empowerment through their daily work.
ARTICLE 19 reaffirms the importance of gender equality as a key component of the right to freedom of expression. As ARTICLE 19 Executive Director, Dr Agnes Callamard, states: “Women’s voices are all too often silent in the media and other public spaces. Women must be heard and must be able to receive information on issues that affect them. Women journalists, activists, community leaders and others must be allowed and encouraged to articulate their views and tell their stores. They must be able to engage freely in their work, without fear of censorship, harassment or violence.”
ARTICLE 19 here reflects the experiences of just a few women who have stood up for freedom of expression in some of the countries in which we work.
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Claire Thompson, freelance PR consultant, Waves PR
Following on from last week’s Amnesty International talk, I promised to write up some short posts around subjects arising from the event.
Panel at Amnesty International Debate
The first of these was: is broadband a human right?
Now before you laugh me out of the blogosphere, consider this:
- across the globe, dictators are wanting to block it/deny access to it. There’s a reason for this!
- increasingly, governments are using the Internet to create access to their services.
Now note that this suggestion doesn’t say’ broadband to the home’ – just access to broadband.
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Claire Thompson, freelance PR consultant, Waves PR
Okay, okay! I know! The event was a week ago, and I’ve been slow to blog. But quite apart from work and Twestival commitments, I needed to think about which bit to blog. There were so many issues raised.
Let me put this into context for you. I knew before I went that the answer was going to be: “It depends!” But if you have a panel like this, you know there’s going to be something worth hearing:
- Kevin Anderson, blogs editor of the Guardian
- Susan Pointer, Director of Public Policy & Government Relations, Google
- Annabelle Sreberny, Professor of Global Media and Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies (special interest Iran, bloggers & social media)
- the iPhone (otherwise known as Andrew Keen, the “antichrist of Silicon Valley”and author of ‘How the internet is killing our culture’ author, held up to a microphone because he couldn’t attend) Andrew Keen
Add to this that it was being chaired by Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology Correspondent for the BBC, and you’ll know why it was a ‘must attend’ event. If I say to you that the audience was as packed with equally qualified people, like BBC Tehran correspondent Jon Leyne (currently barred from Iran), you’ll forgive me for feeling that whatever I say won’t do justice to the debate. (Take a quick peek at who’s blogged already and you’ll understand why.)
So here’s the deal. Here are five central thoughts (there were a lot more!) to expand upon later:
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STATEMENT: Article 19: 24 September 2009
(Posted as issued)
Honduras: No End in Sight for Crisis
Ousted President Zelaya’s return to Honduras supported by the Brazilian government signals a growing regional crisis and a worsening human rights situation. ARTICLE 19 warns of further deterioration and insists that the conditions required for free and fair elections in November are not present in Honduras.
The international community must insist on the elections being postponed until guarantees can be provided for an open, safe and pluralistic debate, involving all sides of the political spectrum and allowing all media to report freely and without pressure.
After many unsuccessful attempts over the past three months, ousted President Zelaya managed to return from exile to Honduras on 21 September. He has found Read more »
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