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Maria Eismont

Towns without censorship

Just as Russia's economic growth has obviated talk of democracy, the media's financial successes leave no place for ethical debate. Market imperatives do the censors' work for them; nevertheless, counter-examples exist, writes Maria Eismont. [more]

14.05.2008


Gus Hosein

They know where you are

Gus Hosein worries about the Internet turning into a data goldmine for governments that want to keep track of their citizens. Confronted with the next censorship initiative, it won't be so easy for us all to argue that the Internet just isn't built that way. [more]

05.02.2008


Maureen Freely

Why they killed Hrant Dink

Following the protests at the murder of Hrant Dink, observers hoped that prime minister Tayyip Erdogan would be forced to take action against the growing wave of ultra-nationalism in Turkey. That nothing happened ought to be no surprise, writes Maureen Freely. After all, it's the State and not the government that runs Turkey. And what the State wants, the State gets. [more]

06.06.2007


Irena Maryniak

The edge of the volcano

Forced labour is widespread in Europe. But until policy makers recognize the need to manage the demand for migrant workers, there will continue to be a market for those prepared to risk exploitation. [more]

15.05.2007


Julian Petley

The retreat of reason

"Set up a straw man, then knock it down with a few killer facts and a dose of common sense." On the anti-PC campaign in the rightwing British press and how it plays into the hands of the far-Right. [more]

09.02.2007


Isabel Hilton

Surfing the dragon

Can China ever break out of the narrative in which it has bound itself? Can there be peaceful change and equal space for political and economic freedom? [more]

08.02.2007


Ekow Eshun

Identities and the subversion of borders

The British-born Ghanaian travelled to his parents' homeland to find an answer to the familiar question: "Where are you from?" But far from getting away from the myth of European superiority that still resonated in the Britain of Eshun's youth, he found himself at its core. [more]

03.11.2006


Irena Maryniak, Salil Tripathi

Cities of migration

How do outsiders negotiate the new urban space in which they arrive? How do they make it their own? [more]

03.11.2006


Ted Cantle

Parallel lives

We may live in a multicultural society, but we need a more positive approach to breaking down segregation. [more]

11.04.2007


Moris Farhi

All history is the history of migration

Throughout history, the ambivalent presence of the migrant Other has aroused extremes of sentiment within the host community. [more]

30.04.2007


Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Candace Allen, Ted Cantle, Dreda Say Mitchell

Multiculturalism: A failed experiment?

Commonality is all very well but it must work both ways: three responses to Ted Cantle's re-evaluation of nationality, citizenship, and community. [more]

03.11.2006


Irena Maryniak

And now for something completely different?

Polish journalists are adept at self-censorship. Not that they would call it that; more a question of not washing dirty linen in Euro-waters and keeping up the self-image. [more]

28.09.2006


Mogniss Abdallah

La France: Love it or leave it

In the past year, France has seen a populist backlash often tolerated, if not supported by the media. But lately the media has demonstrated a growing awareness of the scale of racial discrimination in France and its role in reflecting diversity. [more]

25.09.2006


Valeriu Nicolae

Fourth arm of the state

Romania's media is a willing partner in the perpetuation of racism, prejudice, and discrimination. [more]

21.09.2006


Khaled Hroub

Great expectations

Nowhere has Al-Jazeera's independent reporting infuriated governments more than in the Arab world. But despite the channel's success in changing the media landscape in the region, some blame it for staying out of politics. [more]

15.09.2006


Dzianis Ramaniuk

Rites, rituals, and cemeteries

Ancient rituals, pagan and Christian, continue in the contaminated regions of Belarus. [more]

21.04.2006


Anatol Klashchuk

Children of Chernobyl

Now twenty years old, children born on the day of the catastrophe build their future. [more]

21.04.2006


Alla Yaroshinskaya

The big lie

The secret Chernobyl documents

In 1990, journalist Alla Yaroshinskaya came across secret documents about the Chernobyl catastrophe that revealed a massive cover-up operation and a calculated policy of disinformation. It has taken twenty years for the truth of the Chernobyl disaster to come to light, and even now the full extent of the consequences remains uncertain. [more]

21.04.2006


Ronald Dworkin

A new map of censorship

Is freedom of speech a universal human right? Ronald Dworkin defends a principle that should allow no compromise. [more]

29.03.2006


Ursula Owen

Getting used to offence

Should people in a multi-cultural society be protected from offence and insult simply because they demand it in the name of religion? A commentary on the British debate. [more]

10.03.2006


Geoffrey Hosking

Dictatorship of law

Many Russians identify democracy with an insecure and troubled existence, and hanker after the securities of the past. Active civil society is all but absent under Vladimir Putin's "dictatorship of law". [more]

24.02.2006


Tom Stoppard

Playing the trump card

The current confusion over freedom of speech is the result of liberalism's persistence in seeing a "right" as something to be claimed rather than accorded. [more]

17.02.2006


Salil Tripathi

Schmucks and miniskirts

To restrict freedom of expression to mollify Islamic extremists is patronizing and offensive to moderate Muslims, according to Salil Tripathi. [more]

17.02.2006


Richard Sambrook

Regulation, reponsibility, and the case against censorship

Is there ever a time and a place for censorship? Not if the media understands its responsibilities, argues the BBC's head of news. [more]

16.02.2006


Ian Jack

Pictures, provocation, and free expression

The decision by some European newspapers to reprint the Mohammed cartoons smacked of arrogance and moral posturing, says the editor of Granta. [more]

16.02.2006


Zinovy Zinik

Manifesto for the dawn of communism

Saints, scriptures, and a diasporic faithful: Soviet Communism is just getting started, prophesies Zinovy Zinik from the bar of the Museum Tavern in London. [more]

14.02.2006


Catherine Merridale

Where have all the babushkas gone?

The changing shape of Russian women says more about post-Soviet society than most conventional indicators. [more]

13.02.2006


Kenan Malik

Say what you think

It is both inevitable and important that people offend the sensibilities of others, says Kenan Malik. Without that, society would be less progressive and alive. [more]

09.02.2006


Adam Phillips

The forgetting museum

An obsession with memory blinds us to the abuses of memory, and to the uses of forgetting, argues the British psychoanalyst and author. [more]

02.08.2007


Tania Simoncelli, Helen Wallace

Spirallling out of control

The widening net cast by rapidly expanding DNA databases catches the innocent with the guilty, and scoops up whole families without their knowledge or consent. [more]

25.10.2005


Christian Möller

The very model of a modern IGO

But does the OSCE live up to its self-proclaimed mandate as an exceptional inter-governmental organization? [more]

25.10.2005


Tony Bunyan

Unaccountable Europe

Three significant pieces of legislation suggest Europe is "sleepwalking into a surveillance society". [more]

04.09.2007


Barry Steinhardt

Three cheers for international cooperation

The US has often looked to Europe as a role model for how civil liberties should be protected. But three examples show that the Wild West legal regime is rubbing off on Europe. [more]

25.10.2005


Joe Stork

The thin end of the cooperation wedge

The practice of "rendition", whereby individuals suspected of having links to terrorism are extradited to countries that practise torture, is one of the darkest aspects of international cooperation. [more]

25.10.2005


Gus Hosein

Walking on the dark side

Whenever the G8 meets, there is some expectation that tensions will flare between the US and Russia on issues dealing with Iraq or Iran. But we are never in any doubt that each summit will finish with another declaration on surveillance of travel and communications, or the standardization of identity documents. [more]

04.09.2007


David Fewer

The genie in the information bottle

The US smuggles its own intellectual property protection standards into trade agreements with developing nations. But resistance is gathering. [more]

24.10.2005


David Banisar

The irresistible rise of a right

In the past ten years there has been a global movement towards freedom of information at national levels. Now international organizations must subject themselves to the same standards they demand of others. [more]

21.10.2005


Simon Davies

The complete ID primer

In the face of strong resistance, the British government is introducing a far-reaching ID card. Other countries' experiences of similar systems could be instructive. [more]

20.10.2005


Karen Banks

Summitry and strategies

Much is at stake in the final meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society, but stakeholders don't see eye to eye. [more]

19.10.2005


Christian Semler

Is the tide of German memory turning?

No one in Germany is attempting to rewrite the past, but in the run up to the sixtieth anniversary of the end of WWII, there have been attempts to initiate a more "normal" discourse in the present. [more]

23.06.2005


Timothy Snyder

Balancing the books

European history needs to include both Western and Eastern experiences. Then, solidarity rather than national prejudice would motivate public opinion on matters of European politics. [more]

03.05.2005


Wendy Pullan

A one-sided wall

Jerusalem

On the political and psychological effects of the Israeli-built security fence. [more]

12.08.2004


Raja Shehadeh

A drive on a forbidden road

Ramallah

Life on the Palestinian side of the fence. [more]

12.08.2004


Glenn Patterson

A strange kind of peace

Belfast

Protestants and Catholics are not ready to live side by side. [more]

12.08.2004


David Miller

Caught in the matrix

Iraq: The gulf between the political elite and the rest of us. [more]

03.05.2004


Caroline Moorehead

Necessary lies

Fabricated identities have become a valuable commodity for asylum seekers for whom credibility is the bottom line. Meanwhile, the media adds to the climate of disinformation. [more]

26.07.2006


Eugene Rogan

Arab books and human development

The challenges of Arab book publishing. [more]

27.04.2004


Peter Hounam

Mordechai Vanunu

The fiction of Israel's non-nuclear status. [more]

26.04.2004


Pieter-Dirk Uys

No laughing matter

A satirical look at the South African government's treatment of Aids. [more]

05.04.2004


Gayle Smith

Old wine in new barrels

US aid to Africa has less to do with combating Aids than with securing new and safer supplies of oil. [more]

24.03.2004


Irena Maryniak

Aids in Russia

Ignorance, exclusion and denial

The Russian government remains quiet on the country's Aids epidemic. [more]

24.03.2004


Irena Maryniak

Forging the social contract

The rule of law is no substitute for the bonds of friendship. [more]

20.01.2004


Bob Woffinden

Who drives the agenda?

Has the media fatally undermined the right to a fair trial for every defendant? [more]

17.10.2003


John Lloyd

Media power

Media, money and politics cosy up together. [more]

16.10.2003


Marcel Berlins

Free expression

More equal than others

Few rights successfully challenge the supremacy of the right to free expression. In law that is, governments are another matter. [more]

15.10.2003


Jonathan Rée

Legal evil

The legal precedent of the Eichmann trial: from rights of the accused to victims' rights. [more]

15.10.2003


Richard Sennett

A nation's narrative

Both the virtues and dangers of patriotism depend on how the story is told. [more]

30.07.2003


Nicholas von Hoffmann

In the war whorehouse

American mass media put themselves at the state's service. [more]

30.07.2003


Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Strangers know us best

Why are the British so careless with "Britishness"?

The careless British pose a greater threat to Britishness than any number of willing migrants to their shores. [more]

06.06.2003


Eve-Ann Prentice

All chaos on the media front

All is not well in the Serbian media-landscape. [more]

27.11.2002


Harold Evans

The voice of hate

The rise and rise of anti-Semitism

Harold Evans on the dangerous ways in which Arab anti-Semitism takes hold in the everyday life of our (mis)information age. [more]

25.11.2002


Akash Kapur

Politics into Economics don't go

Akash Kapur on the pitfalls and politics of diasporic writing. [more]

13.08.2002


Ivan Zasurskii

Control by Other Means

A Matter of Image: Putin and the Media

The last of the media barons has fallen to President Putin's need to control his image and determine the news agenda. [more]

28.06.2002


Dario Fo

Is this the new fascism?

The apathy and incoherence of the left are letting the Italian right have it all their own way and there are disastrous consequences in the offing, says Italy's leading playwright. [more]

28.08.2002


Anna Politkovskaya

Cleaning up

"Sanitisation" in Chechnya

Anna Politkovskaya was the journalist to have done most to uncover the Kremlin's dirty war in Chechnya. An article published in Index on Censorship in 2002 is exemplary of the reporting that earned her a reputation for fearlessness and ultimately cost her her life. [more]

06.05.2002


Irena Maryniak

Goodbye Solidarity

... and Welcome to Poland's New Breed Democrats

Irena Maryniak describes Poland's new breed of democrats as europhobic, catholic-backed, warm and xenophobic, glowing from their unexpected triumph at the polls. [more]

28.03.2002


Phillip Knightley

Losing Friends and Influencing People

The Media after 11 September

What happened to the media debate on the threats to civil liberties, the right of dissent, freedom of expression and other legal rights since 11 September? [more]

15.03.2002


Florence Amalou, Freimut Duve

The Patriotic Syndrome

Florence Amalou talks to Freimut Duve

The OSCE representative for free expression critices the US media in the wake of the 11 September attacks and exposes the attacks on freedom in Chechnya. He also expresses his disquiet on the media landscape in Silvo Berlusconi's Italy. [more]

15.03.2002


Olena Nikolayenko

The Most Dangerous Place

Journalists in the Ukraine

Last year, Ukraine, along with Russia, became the most dangerous place in the world for journalists to work. [more]

21.02.2002


Juan Luis Cebrián

Few Tongues, Many Voices?

The Media and European Identity

Perhaps even greater media concentration can save Europe from homogenised cultural globalisation. [more]

21.02.2002


Mark Thompson

Forging Peace

Balkan media, particularly the Serbian press, were actively engaged in forging war in the region. Now they have to learn a new role. [more]

30.11.2001


Anneliese Rohrer

Inside Story

Austrian Politics and Media

International and domestic perceptions of Jörg Haider and his Freedom Party differ sharply. A leading Austrian journalist urges a closer look at the record of previous governments and points to the unique degree of media concentration as a problem that has a history. [more]

15.10.2001


Norman Stone

Eurokid and Colonel Blimp

National Identity goes far deeper than a European one and, if we want to avoid a nationalist backlash, we should learn to live with that reality, writes Norman Stone. [more]

01.10.2001



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