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Parting Words from Haiti’s Not-So-Sweet Mickey...
By Janelle Nodhturft Williams Former Haitian President Michel Martelly left office on February 7, 2016, the 30th anniversary of the fall of the brutal Duvalier dictatorship. A failed election process leaves the former head of the Senate temporarily at the reigns. Thus, Haiti faces its second interi... |
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Talking the Talk but Failing to Walk the Walk : ...
By Lamii Kpargoi On July 21, 2012, six months after receiving her second six-year mandate, President Ellen Sirleaf signed the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers’ (WAN-IFRA) Declaration of Table Mountain, which seeks to abolish insult laws and criminal defamation across Africa. The... |
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Correa’s Creative Use of Copyright Law to Stif...
By Vanessa Aliaga It is safe to say that Ecuadorean President, Rafael Correa, does not take criticism well. His frenzied Twitter rants garnered international attention last year when John Oliver, a British comedian and the host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, mocked the president’s temper on air. Bu... |
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In the age when everything is going digital, is ...
That’s the question we will try to answer this week in a special trans-Atlantic dialogue featuring a new CIMA report with responses from the World Bank, Internews and BBC Media Action. I will be moderating the panel of experts who have been grappling for decades with the question of how to introdu... |
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The Growing Trend Toward Criminalizing Free Spee...
By Lamii Kpargoi Over the last two decades, many African countries have progressed from repressive governance, including suppressing dissenting opinion, to democracy, opening some space for freedom of expression. Thirteen countries, including Sierra Leone, Tunisia, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Nigeri... |