1. African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalistsâ## rights
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
2. Alert: Police raid opposition party headquarters, arrest protesters amid continuing unrest in Perak State
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) strongly protests continuing police arrests of protesters and a related raid at the headquarters of the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) to eliminate critical expression about the political crisis.
3. Amnesty International, Canadian Section
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
4. And Then They Came For Me
   Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
5. ARTICLE 19 launches the Camden Principles on Freedom of Expression and Equality
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   ARTICLE 19 has launched The Camden Principles on Freedom of Expression and Equality, a ground-breaking document that will guide legislators, policy-makers and civil society in balancing the rights to freedom of expression and equality.
6. As ACTA talks resume, new leak confirms fears about threat to online free expression
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders urges ACTA negotiators not to sacrifice Internet free speech and access to online information to the desire to combat piracy and the counterfeiting of copyrighted works
7. Author warns coalition of MPs (CPCCA) intent on criminalizing free speech on Israel/Palestine
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   The author of a new book on antisemitism kicks off a Western Canada tour Sept. 17 to sound an alarm that a coalition of MPs (CPCCA) is intent on outlawing criticism of Israel as being antisemitic, posing a significant threat to free speech.
8. Authorities step up offensive against journalists and websites
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Reporters Without Borders is concerned about freedom of expression in Bahrain. In the past couple of months, two journalists have been charged because of what they wrote and the information ministry has stepped up Internet filtering.
   
9. Bloggers invited to compete for special DEUTSCHE WELLE #free expression# prize with Reporters Without Borders
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Deutsche Welle, Germany#s international broadcaster, today announced the start of its sixth annual international Best of the Blogs award, The BOBs.
10. Campaign for Freedom of Expression
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    CFI Canada isl inaugurating the Campaign for Free Expression, an ongoing series of events, activities and political initiatives in support of freedom of inquiry, thought and expression.
    
11. Canadian Authors Association
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
12. Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
13. Challenged Books List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2004
    A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
14. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
15. A climate of fear endangers press freedom
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and emblematic arrest aimed at those who would practice real, independent journalism.
16. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
17. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
18. CPJ urges Indonesia to reverse Playboy editor's conviction
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about an Indonesian Supreme Court ruling against Erwin Arnada, editor of the now-dormant Playboy Indonesia.
19. Don't Incite Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
    
20. Egypt: Security authorities confiscate book about corruption
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reports that the Egyptian security authorities have confiscated a book entitled "A Flood of Corruption and the Advance of bin Laden in Algeria" by the Algerian writer, Anwar Malek.
21. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
    
22. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
    
23. Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
    How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
24. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
    
25. Free Speech in a Plural Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
    
26. Freedom of expression â#osystematically violatedâ## in Tibet
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the systematic violation of press freedom and free expression in Tibet.
27. Freedom of expression under attack in every region, say IFEX members on International Human Rights Day
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    To mark International Human Rights Day IFEX members paused to comment on violations of free expression as they commemorated the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
28. Freedom of Expressions Award 2009 Shortlist Announced
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Index on Censorship announces the shortlist for the 2009 Freedom of Expression Awards.
29. Gag Rule
    On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. A call to action in defense of one of the most important liberties, the right to raise our voices against the powers that be, and to have those voice heard.
30. Geneva: Withdrawal by States from Durban Review Major Setback for Freedom of Expression
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    ARTICLE 19 and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies are extremely concerned by the recent decision of the USA, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands to withdraw from the UN anti-racism conference, otherwise known as the Durban Rreview.
31. Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Advice and technical tips for the best way to launch a blog and how to get round online censorship. It includes an explanation of how to blog anonymously and contains articles by bloggers, particularly in Egypt and Burma.
32. Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
33. Human rights defender held in Saudi Arabia since mid-June on charge of #annoying others#
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Sheikh Mekhlef bin Dahham al-Shammari, a writer, human rights activist and social reformer who was arrested in Saudi Arabia on 15 June.
34. IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' Association
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    International Federation of Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to end the campaign of intimidation of journalists in the country following closure of the Association of Journalists in Tehran whose offices were raided and sealed by armed men.
35. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
36. Journalism: Truth or Dare?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
37. Journalists Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism Laws
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Ministers of the human rights network of the Council of Europe have called on their governments to review anti-terrorism laws in the face of strong criticism from journalists that some laws are in practice limiting free expression and press rights.
38. Libel, Defamation, Contempt of Court and the Right of People to be Informed.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    
39. Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect on 1 January.
40. Malaysian cartoonist faces sedition charges
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest of Malaysian cartoonist Zulkifli Awar Ulhaque, also known as Zunar, a contributor to the popular news site Malaysiakini and author of a new collection of political cartoons.
41. Manufacturing Consent
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
42. More than 100 rights organisations urge UN to oppose defamation of religions
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2011
    More than 100 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to urge member states at the United Nations Human Rights Council session this month to renegotiate defamation of religions resolutions that make criticising religion a crime.
43. Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
44. PayPal admits US pressure over WikiLeaks account freeze
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    PayPal today admitted it suspended payments to WikiLeaks after an intervention from the US State Department.
45. Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
46. Protect the Freedom to Shock
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
    
47. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
48. Radical Perspectives in the Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
49. The Right to Offend
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
50. Rights and Liberties
    Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
51. Rosa Luxemburg
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
    
52. Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and NGO has delivered a statement strongly opposing the proposed "Combating the Defamation of Religions" resolution backed by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
53. Seriously Free Speech Committee
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
54. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
    
55. Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1980
    It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
56. Sources welcomes OrangeWebsite
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2011
    Sources welcomes a new member: OrangeWebsite. OrangeWebsite is an Icelandic web hosting service provider. Most of our clients are foreign journalists, bloggers, leakers and publishers.
    
57. Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
58. Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser: Silence Tastes Badâ## Put Free Speech on the Menu.
    Artists and supporters speak out for freedom of association at the launch of the Koffler Gallery fundraiser, ARTFUL DISH, Thursday, June 4, 10 AM.
59. 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
60. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
61. WiPC issues a call for solidarity for persecuted writers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    To mark the Day of the Imprisoned Writer (DoIW) on 15 November, the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (WiPC) is highlighting the cases of imprisoned writers and honouring those who have been slain for defending free speech.
62. Women Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    
63. Women Against Censorship (book review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1985
    
64. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
65. Yesterday's News
    Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

Experts on Freedom of Expression in the Sources Directory

1. Article 19
2. Center for Socialist History
3. Connexions Information Sharing Services
4. Fame & Fortune
5. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
6. Media Names & Numbers
7. OrangeWebsite
8. Radical Digressions
9. Seriously Free Speech Committee
10. United Nations Human Rights Council