Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally.

It’s not perfect—no manmade system could be—but it’s the best we’ve got, and without freedom of speech there ... governments that disregarded human rights have always bred dissent ...

The key to all this was the freedom of speech. Speech was then ... Just like the Soviets in 1966, it mocks free speech, it ...

On September 10 at 9 pm, the Queensland Parliament, where the Steven Miles Labor government has a majority, adopted the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized the importance of freedom of speech and information in an address to a media ...

On Aug. 31, the nation of Brazil banned Twitter — no one in real life calls it “X” — in an argument over free speech. The ...

On this Democracy Day, I want to highlight the VFW’s annual high school contest on democracy by sharing with you Indiana’s ...

ST. LOUIS – A Saint Louis University professor recounts his family’s pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement. Travis Threats, Ph.D., professor and chair of SLU’s Department of Speech ...

Universities already have obligations under the law to protect freedom of speech and we will hold institutions to them.' But Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at human-rights charity Sex Matters ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that Russia had violated an official's and a group of filmmakers' right to freedom of assembly and free speech on Tuesday. The applicants in the case ...

Unlike the United States, which enshrines freedom of speech in its Bill of Rights, Australia does a combination of things to ensure it. Australian Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay told ...

Palestinian human rights lawyer Munir Nuseibah explains what this summer’s International Court of Justice ruling against ...