The Office of UN High Commission for Human Rights is seeking applications for the recently vacated position of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. The Special Rapporteur undertakes fact-finding country visits; serves as the public face for the thematic mandate; tracks alleged violations of the rights to freedom…
Profiles of seven additional political prisoners have been added to our Set Them Free Azerbaijan spotlight page. Unfortunately, this expansion reflects the escalating measures taken by the Azerbaijan government to suppress human rights defenders, journalists, and religious minorities. One of the most notorious examples is the arrest of Afghan Mukhtarli in May 2017. An investigative journalist, Afghan has written…
On October 23, 2017, 55 international civil society organizations (CSOs) issued an open letter about the government’s extreme crackdown on Cambodia’s independent media, political opposition, and members of civil society over the past year. In addition to the Cambodian National Assembly’s recent attempt to pass legislation that allows the government to dissolve political parties, the letter notes that independent…
In the new book entitled “In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy,” scholars from around the world explore the rising global trend of threats to media autonomy. Curated by the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), the book explores international political and commercial media actors, as well as “prominent leaders…