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.

Not satisfied with the capture of most of our institutions, the ruling elites have gone full Orwell in redefining the term ...

It staggers the mind to imagine what Douglass would think of the state of free speech in today's world. An unprecedented ...

In 1966, two Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of ...

Angolan President João Lourenco has signed into law two bills that fail to meet international human rights standards and will ...

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

When are university and other protests impermissible? When ‘a protest turns into a base camp for criminal activity’, said ...

Amal Clooney is a name that resonates with excellence in the fields of law, human rights, and international diplomacy. While ...

"Dozens of nongovernmental organizations (26 major NGOs) that declared themselves 'defenders of human rights and freedom of speech,' published a collective appeal, criticized on a daily basis ...

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

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 ...

A new law in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan requires women to cover up completely and not raise their voices in public. LHR slams ...