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The United States delegation engaged in a dialogue with over 80 representatives of civil society March 12 one day before presentation to the U.N. Human Rights Committee of the Fourth Periodic Report on implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in the United States.
U.S. Mission Geneva/ Eric Bridiers
Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the UN today for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In his remarks, Reverend Jackson highlighted the importance of freedom of expression in the fight for human rights and to combat racial discrimination.
U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers
The United States delegation engaged in a dialogue with over 80 representatives of civil society March 12 one day before presentation to the U.N. Human Rights Committee of the Fourth Periodic Report on implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in the United States.
U.S. Mission Geneva/ Eric Bridiers
Friday 3 May 2013: World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2013. It was officially proclaimed during the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. Ever since then, UNESCO as the UN agency with the mandate to promote freedom of expression (including freedom of the press) has been promoting these fundamental rights in every region of the world. The British High Commission marked the day with a reception for journalists and bloggers.
Lajuan Harris, a tattoo artist at Master Mind Ink, shows his scalp tattoo. Harris said the thickest skin on one's body is on your skull, so scalp tattoos are not that painful compared to other tattoos. Harris was at the BodyArtExpo in Chicago at Navy Pier.
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"Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Malaysia’s capital on Saturday demanding the resignation of the prime minister, Najib Razak, over his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar misappropriation scandal.
Clad in yellow shirts and unfazed by arrests of activists and opposition leaders just hours before the rally, protesters marched from various spots towards the heart of Kuala Lumpur amid tight security."
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/thousands-call-for-...
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/world/asia/tens-of-thousands-o...
#HongKong #Protest #AnitELAB #HKPoliceBrutality #FreedomOfExpression #StandWithHongKong
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Before the meeting a lone speaker turned up with a great big banner and caught everybody's attention.
Launch of “Freedom under threat” campaign to shine a light on the crackdown on rights and freedoms in Russia while the world is watching in the build-up to the Sochi Olympics in winter 2014.
The event involved an “Olympic relay” from Ottawa University with a colourful procession with music, costumes, acrobats, relay runners, and more. The relay ended at the Russian Embassy, where activists held a short demonstration holding signs and birthday cake for Putin, wishing for respect for human rights.
Part of the day yesterday was spent at the Fiesta Street Festival held on Ave. Del Mar in beautiful San Clemente. www.scchamber.com/Fiesta_Street_Festival.asp
There was a lot going on with thousands of people walking up and down the street eating, drinking, listening to live music, face painting and all that stuff. It was a good time for sure.
One thing I like about large crowds is that they tend to bring out all sorts of interesting people and this crowd was no different.
In this shot, the guy in the middle with the tattoo's all over his head decided to take issue with the sign holders on the opposite end of his religious spectrum. The people holding the sign didn't let his confrontational taunts phase them as they continued to march along spreading their message but tattoo guy had his moment in the spotlight and made his point to his own satisfaction. I think the large red 666 tat he had on the front of his neck was enough to make his beliefs clear to all. He eventually moved on back to wherever he rolled up from but not before posing for photos with adults and kids alike. Hmmm...
On Sunday 13th May, the Amnesty Farnham Group organized a protest asking for the release of Vietnamese prisoners of conscience.
It was also the occasion to celebrate the release of Truong Quoc Huy after 5 years in prison.
The United States delegation engaged in a dialogue with over 80 representatives of civil society March 12 one day before presentation to the U.N. Human Rights Committee of the Fourth Periodic Report on implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in the United States.
U.S. Mission Geneva/ Eric Bridiers
The United States delegation engaged in a dialogue with over 80 representatives of civil society March 12 one day before presentation to the U.N. Human Rights Committee of the Fourth Periodic Report on implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in the United States.
U.S. Mission Geneva/ Eric Bridiers
The United States delegation engaged in a dialogue with over 80 representatives of civil society March 12 one day before presentation to the U.N. Human Rights Committee of the Fourth Periodic Report on implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in the United States.
U.S. Mission Geneva/ Eric Bridiers
Île de Groix, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
"La liberté d'expression est née sur les murs"
(Freedom of speech was born on the walls")
See:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz-blossom/
From the exhibition @Large: Ai WeiWei on Alcatraz
General information about the exhibition:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz/
New York Times review:
www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/arts/design/ai-weiwei-takes-hi...
Trailer for "Never Sorry," a film about Ai WeiWei:
"Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Malaysia’s capital on Saturday demanding the resignation of the prime minister, Najib Razak, over his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar misappropriation scandal.
Clad in yellow shirts and unfazed by arrests of activists and opposition leaders just hours before the rally, protesters marched from various spots towards the heart of Kuala Lumpur amid tight security."
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/thousands-call-for-...
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/world/asia/tens-of-thousands-o...
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
"Let's fight online censorship and surveillance" was the motto of the Circumvention Tech Festival that took place in Valencia, 1-6 March.
See:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz-refraction/
From the exhibition @Large: Ai WeiWei on Alcatraz
General information about the exhibition:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz/
New York Times review:
www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/arts/design/ai-weiwei-takes-hi...
Trailer for "Never Sorry," a film about Ai WeiWei:
On Sunday 13th May, the Amnesty Farnham Group organized a protest asking for the release of Vietnamese prisoners of conscience.
It was also the occasion to celebrate the release of Truong Quoc Huy after 5 years in prison.
Kings Road, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England. This is a suburban district about ten miles outside London. Here Burgess composed his Essay on Censorship in 1989, having decided to take a stand against intolerance and hypocrisy amid the Satanic Verses affair.
In a year when two out of three Latin Americans will elect new leaders, freedom of expression remains a crucial but fragile pillar of the region’s democratic systems. In 2017, 22 media workers were killed in the Americas, and other practices—from threats of violence to criminal prosecutions—were employed against individuals exercising their freedom of expression to better inform society. In addition, new challenges to democratic debate have emerged, including the deliberate, malevolent spread of disinformation—or “fake news”—and the corresponding danger of regulatory overreach by governments in response.
The Inter-American Dialogue, Reporters Without Borders, and the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) are pleased to host a public forum to analyze persistent threats, emerging challenges, and potential solutions for protecting freedom of expression in the Americas.
Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the UN today for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In his remarks, Reverend Jackson highlighted the importance of freedom of expression in the fight for human rights and to combat racial discrimination.
U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers
Her speech was overshadowed a bit by the arrival of a somewhat eccentric one-eyed man with a swistika on his pole.
Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the UN today for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In his remarks, Reverend Jackson highlighted the importance of freedom of expression in the fight for human rights and to combat racial discrimination.
U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers
Why freedom of speech and expression is so important.
These very earnest but bonkers young actors perform a variation on a medieval mystery play.
Long may such an English eccentricity continue.
© Image & Design Ian Halsey MMXII.
As the rain comes down openly Gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell offers shelter to Rend Shakir
On 21st October 2011, English PEN took part in a global 'Poetry Protest'. Campaigners around the world read poems by Burma's imprisoned poets. In London, at the Burmese Embassy in Mayfair, acclaimed poet Ruth Padel led the readings with Burmese artist Htein Lin, former political prisoner Zaw Zaw Aung, and Salil Tripathi, Chair of English PEN's Writers in Prison Committee.
Photo: Roslind Izard
locations of each wall: district 6, mitchells plain, phillipi ( Cape Town, south Africa)
Definition: it explores the symbiotic contrast between individual murals that are united by its content
BY FALKO ONE.
Kings Road, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England. This is a suburban district about ten miles outside London. Here Burgess composed his Essay on Censorship in 1989, having decided to take a stand against intolerance and hypocrisy amid the Satanic Verses affair.
Launch of “Freedom under threat” campaign to shine a light on the crackdown on rights and freedoms in Russia while the world is watching in the build-up to the Sochi Olympics in winter 2014.
The event involved an “Olympic relay” from Ottawa University with a colourful procession with music, costumes, acrobats, relay runners, and more. The relay ended at the Russian Embassy, where activists held a short demonstration holding signs and birthday cake for Putin, wishing for respect for human rights.
Vigil for the victims of the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Brandenburger Gate, Berlin, January 7th, 2015.
See:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz-trace/
From the exhibition @Large: Ai WeiWei on Alcatraz
General information about the exhibition:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz/
New York Times review:
www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/arts/design/ai-weiwei-takes-hi...
Trailer for "Never Sorry," a film about Ai WeiWei:
Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the UN today for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In his remarks, Reverend Jackson highlighted the importance of freedom of expression in the fight for human rights and to combat racial discrimination.
U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers
"Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Malaysia’s capital on Saturday demanding the resignation of the prime minister, Najib Razak, over his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar misappropriation scandal.
Clad in yellow shirts and unfazed by arrests of activists and opposition leaders just hours before the rally, protesters marched from various spots towards the heart of Kuala Lumpur amid tight security."
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/thousands-call-for-...
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/world/asia/tens-of-thousands-o...
I was invited by the Toolkit Startup 2 to participate to their poster exhibition "ε/Design your Expression".
The concept of my poster is be Free BUT with Responsibility. As Chesterton once said, "To have a right opinion to do a thing is not the same as to be right in doing it".
Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the UN today for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In his remarks, Reverend Jackson highlighted the importance of freedom of expression in the fight for human rights and to combat racial discrimination.
U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers
Secretary General of the Community of Democracies, Maria Leissner, welcoming the participants of the conference.
A conference organised by the Asia Democracy Network and the East Asia Institute in Seoul on November 24-25. The main aim of the conference was to bring the Community of Democracies together with civil society representatives from Asia in preparations towards the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies, to take place in July 2015 in El Salvador.
Participants of the conference discussed different aspects of the Community's work and ways of improving and developing them. The panels deal with different topics, including: challenges in democracy support; enabling and protecting civil society; Community of Democracies governance and effectiveness, and more.
by mahdi_saffar c.bonyana.ir/1yfYTA7 the pretext of freedom of expression , first you have mocked Jesus (peace be upon him) , and now Muhammad, the prophet of islam (Peace be upon him and his family). While education at france universities is forbidden for muslim veiled girls, religous satire of christians and muslims is perfection of your freedome !! Curse on you ... Curse on your freedom ... Curse on your nonsense world ... And of course , curse on your "charlie" !! . به بهانه ی آزادی بیان ، اول مسیح علیه السلام را تمسخر کردید ؛ و حالا محمد صلوات الله علیه و آله ... جایی که تحصیل دختر محجبه مسلمان در دانشگاه ممنوع است ، هجو مقدسات مسیحیان و مسلمانان کمال آزادی است !!! نفرین بر شما ... نفرین بر آزادیتان ... نفرین بر دنیای مُهملتان ... و البته نفرین بر "شارلی" تان !! . علي زريعة حريّة التعبير سخِرتم المسيح عليه السلام ثم سخِرتم نبيّنا محمد صلوات الله عليه و آله بلدٌ يُمنَع فيه حجاب لطالبة المسلمة و هجاءُ المسيحية و الإسلام فيه نهاية الحرّية ! افٍ لكم ... افٍ لحرّيتكم ... افٍ لدنياكم المهملة ... و ايضاً افٍ و لعنة علي "شارلي" كم ... . #prophet #muhammad #jesus #charlie #death #curse #freedom #freedomofexpression #false #islam #shameonyoucharlie #پیامبر #محمد #مسیح #عیسی #شارلی #مرگ #نفرین #لعنت #دروغ #آزادی_بیان #اسلام #شرم_بر_شارلی
Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the UN today for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In his remarks, Reverend Jackson highlighted the importance of freedom of expression in the fight for human rights and to combat racial discrimination.
U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers
Media Release
Palestine Action Group Canberra (PAGC) - campaigning for freedom, justice and equality in Palestine - and Canberra Palestine and Climate Justice Group (CPCJC) are appalled at the censorship of the Palestinian flag in an Indigenous art installation at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) and are rallying against it at 1pm today.
The groups say censorship of artwork or any nation’s flag is unacceptable, and censorship of the Palestinian flag while the Palestinian people are enduring a genocide is particularly distasteful.
“Once censorship starts, it is the beginning of the end, because if an institution can censor, particularly on such spurious grounds, there is no logical reason why you would censor one thing and not another,” says CPCJC’s Dr Tamara Kayali Browne.
“Even if you are not passionate about the struggle for Palestinian liberation, everyone has an interest in opposing this censorship, because if this is permitted, it sets a very bad precedent and we could all be censored.
“The NGA’s justification for censorship is patently absurd, as the flag consists of a piece of cloth, and a piece of cloth cannot possibly threaten anyone’s security.”
This censorship goes against the NGA’s own stance that,
“Art is for all of us. It allows us to see the world in ways that expand our minds, provoke our ideas, ignite our imaginations. At the National Gallery we strive for cultural experiences that surprise, that disrupt convention, that deepen our understanding of the human condition and the world we live in.”
It appears the NGA needs to correct its statement to read “except for Palestine”.
The artwork is a celebration of anti-colonial struggles. It is not ethically or logically coherent to allow expression of one anti-colonial struggle and not another.
Link to Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/21/national-g...
Voting on resolutions began March 27, 2014 at the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council.
U.S. Mission Geneva/ Eric Bridiers
Voting on resolutions began March 27, 2014 at the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council.
U.S. Mission Geneva/ Eric Bridiers
This photo, taken at the Maailman kylässä (World Village Festival) in Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland. Spring 2025.
Shows a striking trio of critically acclaimed graphic novels and nonfiction books that challenge, reflect, and document war, trauma, and memory through different lenses.
1. Maus by Art Spiegelman
Arguably the most famous graphic novel of all time, Maus recounts the Holocaust through the lens of Spiegelman’s father’s survival story. Jews are portrayed as mice, Nazis as cats, and Poles as pigs. The book is both an autobiographical account and a harrowing post-war reflection, exploring inherited trauma, memory, and identity. It remains the only graphic novel to have won a Pulitzer Prize.
2. Palestine by Joe Sacco
In Palestine, Joe Sacco documents his time in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s. With immersive, journalistic precision, Sacco gives voice to Palestinians living under occupation, blending the visual storytelling of comics with the rigor of investigative journalism. The book is raw, human, and deeply empathetic.
3. War on Gaza by Joe Sacco
A spiritual and thematic sequel to Palestine, this newer release by Sacco continues his commitment to documenting the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Focusing more closely on the siege and bombardment of Gaza, it explores civilian suffering, the asymmetry of modern warfare, and the psychology of life under constant threat. It’s a visual indictment and an urgent call to reckon with humanitarian realities.