September in the Americas: A free expression and civic space round-up produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Laura Vidal. Two ongoing stories highlight key challenges in connection with the International ...

Over the years, this column has visited and revisited the freedom of expression, one of our most vital and cherished rights as Americans. That freedom has been under threat all too often in our ...

My best classes as an undergraduate involved sitting around a seminar table debating ideas. Those seminar discussions were robust, challenging, enlightening and hard. And they were only possible ...

As a public university, UC Davis is governed by the same laws as any government body. That means that all members of our community enjoy the protections of the First Amendment, and the university ...

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 ...

This "meticulous and much-needed" history of free speech "arrives at an interesting moment", said Joe Moran in The Guardian. In the US, Donald Trump has made "restoring freedom of speech" a ...

“If we don’t have Free Speech, then we just don’t have a Free Country. It’s as simple as that.” President Donald Trump said in one of his campaign statements where he previewed how his administration ...

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ...

In January of 2015, artist Tania Bruguera was detained by the Cuban government. Bruguera had planned to restage a performance artwork about freedom of speech in the iconic Plaza de la Revolución in ...

Several civil society organisations have submitted a statement to the Human Rights Council about the state of free expression and human rights in Bangladesh in the context of the national elections.

As the Berlinale prepares to kick off its 75th edition on Thursday, the festival has clarified its position on freedom of expression, including when it comes to showing solidarity with Palestine. In a ...