23 Feb 2015 Media freedom in Burma/Myanmar
The media in Burma are freer now than at any point in the last decade, yet significant challenges remain and there are troubling signs on the horizon. The...
The media in Burma are freer now than at any point in the last decade, yet significant challenges remain and there are troubling signs on the horizon. The...
For 25 years, the international NGO Reporters Without Borders that monitors attacks on freedom of information worldwide was banned from visiting Burma. Inside the country, all freely-reported news...
Freedom of religion in Burma has become a controversial political issue after the Burmese government published a religious conversion bill in state-owned newspapers in May 2014 inviting input...
Former political prisoner Nay Phone Latt, 34, is the secretary of PEN Myanmar and executive director of the advocacy group, Myanmar ICT Development Organization (MIDO). In April 2014...
A few months before the 2013 elections, many Cambodians began to break out of their culture of fear, silence and political ignorance and embrace civic engagement. They participated...
The increase of political conflict in Thailand from late 2013 to 2014 contributed to the downfall of freedom of expression and freedom of information both on the public...
Freedom of expression is supposedly guaranteed in Cambodia. Both domestic laws and international instruments that Cambodia is bound by protect this fundamental right.1 Yet, restrictive legislation, media censorship and...
In February 1990, the same month that Nelson Mandela (known as Madiba) walked free after 27 years behind bars, South Africa’s then-President, Frederik Willem de Klerk, issued written...
At the 44th Kyiv International Film Festival (25 October to 2 November 2, 2014) the Ecumenical Jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, awarded its Prize in the International...
The European Region of the World Association for Christian Communication strongly condemns the attacks against a Copenhagen cultural centre and a synagogue and reaffirms its support for freedom of expression and...