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Colombia’s Peace Process: How can the Press Co...
By Melissa Nolan The clock continues to tick for the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to sign a peace accord. There is no doubt that this negotiation process is historic. In the time it took the negotiating parties to decide on one agenda item in 1998, the t... |
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Blogging Against Autocratic Rule in Nepal: The R...
By Tilak Pathak On the morning of February 1, 2005, just before heading to my job at I watched the king of Nepal announce on national television that he had ousted the country’s democratic government. Shortly thereafter, I attempted to call my editor only to find that all phone lines had been cut... |
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Violence Against Saudi Arabian Blogger
**Update: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia died on January 22. He will be succeeded by his brother, Crown Prince Salman. Additionally on January 22, Raif Badawi’s public flogging was postponed for the second week in a row due his worsening medical condition. The international community will con... |
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Blogging for a Future Democracy: The Story of An...
Guest post by Pham Doan Trang On a late spring day in Hanoi, officers from the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security launched a sudden raid on the home and business of well-known blogger, Nguyen Huu Vinh, better known as Anh Ba Sam (Vietnamese for “Brother Gossiper”). Vinh and his assistant Ng... |
