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2024 — 2025 Impact Report - Global Freedom of Expression
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to advance understanding of the international and national norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression in an inter-...
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📣🎈🎆 Columbia Global Freedom of Expression celebrates +10 years of defending free speech! Our new Impact Report highlights global legal milestones, expanded resources, and strengthened partnerships.
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In Pakistan it’s been a struggle to maintain dignity and a voice, @javeriasiddique.bsky.social told CGFoE. She reflects on her ongoing fight for justice in #Pakistan & #Kenya for her late husband, investigative journalist Arshad Sharif.
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Jurisprudence in Focus: Interview with Javeria Siddique—“In Pakistan it’s been a struggle to maintain dignity and a voice” - Global Freedom of Expression
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to advance understanding of the international and national norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression in an inter-...
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February 11, 2026 at 6:11 PM
In Pakistan it’s been a struggle to maintain dignity and a voice, @javeriasiddique.bsky.social told CGFoE. She reflects on her ongoing fight for justice in #Pakistan & #Kenya for her late husband, investigative journalist Arshad Sharif.
globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/publications...
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I am in extreme grief and disappointed,
@javeriasiddique.bsky.social
told us after #Pakistan’s Highest Court closed the case of her husband's murder, investigative journalist Arshad Sharif. 🔗https://mailchi.mp/columbia/pakistan-court-closes-case-of-slain-journalist-arshad-sharif?e=[UNIQID]
@javeriasiddique.bsky.social
told us after #Pakistan’s Highest Court closed the case of her husband's murder, investigative journalist Arshad Sharif. 🔗https://mailchi.mp/columbia/pakistan-court-closes-case-of-slain-journalist-arshad-sharif?e=[UNIQID]
February 9, 2026 at 12:09 AM
I am in extreme grief and disappointed,
@javeriasiddique.bsky.social
told us after #Pakistan’s Highest Court closed the case of her husband's murder, investigative journalist Arshad Sharif. 🔗https://mailchi.mp/columbia/pakistan-court-closes-case-of-slain-journalist-arshad-sharif?e=[UNIQID]
@javeriasiddique.bsky.social
told us after #Pakistan’s Highest Court closed the case of her husband's murder, investigative journalist Arshad Sharif. 🔗https://mailchi.mp/columbia/pakistan-court-closes-case-of-slain-journalist-arshad-sharif?e=[UNIQID]
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🔔 LIVE NOW: Join us for an urgent national town hall on press freedom featuring FPF's @trevortimm.bsky.social, and other leading voices across journalism and civil rights, hosted by NABJ in partnership with Black Star Network.
🔗 www.youtube.com/live/OpqX0Gf...
🔗 www.youtube.com/live/OpqX0Gf...
Not On Our Watch: A National Town Hall On Press Freedom
YouTube video by Roland S. Martin
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February 2, 2026 at 11:34 PM
🔔 LIVE NOW: Join us for an urgent national town hall on press freedom featuring FPF's @trevortimm.bsky.social, and other leading voices across journalism and civil rights, hosted by NABJ in partnership with Black Star Network.
🔗 www.youtube.com/live/OpqX0Gf...
🔗 www.youtube.com/live/OpqX0Gf...
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Oscar-nominated writer Mehdi Mahmoudian arrested in Iran for condemning the government’s brutal crackdown on protesters in a letter signed by 17 people, including #FreedomToWrite Awardees Narges Mohammadi (the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize honoree) and Nasrin Sotoudeh: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Oscar-nominated screenwriter arrested in Iran for criticising government crackdown
Mehdi Mahmoudian signed a letter condemning the ‘mass killings’ by the Iranian government
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Oscar-nominated writer Mehdi Mahmoudian arrested in Iran for condemning the government’s brutal crackdown on protesters in a letter signed by 17 people, including #FreedomToWrite Awardees Narges Mohammadi (the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize honoree) and Nasrin Sotoudeh: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
📌Drawing of the GULAG was possible only in secret. Read about this & more in our latest #newsletter ⬇️
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January 27, 2026 at 8:46 PM
📌Drawing of the GULAG was possible only in secret. Read about this & more in our latest #newsletter ⬇️
mailchi.mp/columbia/rus...
mailchi.mp/columbia/rus...
Anderson J. Dirocie De León & Patricia M. Santana Nina reflect on the legal strategy that led to a landmark Constitutional Court ruling advancing equality and #LGBTQ rights in the #DominicanRepublic.
🔗https://mailchi.mp/columbia/cgfoe-presents-new-interview-series-jurisprudence-in-focus?e=[UNIQID]
🔗https://mailchi.mp/columbia/cgfoe-presents-new-interview-series-jurisprudence-in-focus?e=[UNIQID]
January 19, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Anderson J. Dirocie De León & Patricia M. Santana Nina reflect on the legal strategy that led to a landmark Constitutional Court ruling advancing equality and #LGBTQ rights in the #DominicanRepublic.
🔗https://mailchi.mp/columbia/cgfoe-presents-new-interview-series-jurisprudence-in-focus?e=[UNIQID]
🔗https://mailchi.mp/columbia/cgfoe-presents-new-interview-series-jurisprudence-in-focus?e=[UNIQID]
How do citizens respond to institutions that fail? To document it, we launched weekly Protest Monitor. If you have information about the protest in your area, including relevant legal documents, please send it our way.
🔗 mailchi.mp/columbia/cgf...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
How do citizens respond to institutions that fail? To document it, we launched weekly Protest Monitor. If you have information about the protest in your area, including relevant legal documents, please send it our way.
🔗 mailchi.mp/columbia/cgf...
🔗 mailchi.mp/columbia/cgf...
We wish you a joyful, fulfilling, and peaceful New Year. Thank you for standing with us while we continue to defend and advance freedom of expression around the world. Here’s to another year of collaboration, courage, and impact. Onwards!
-The CGFoE Team
-The CGFoE Team
January 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
We wish you a joyful, fulfilling, and peaceful New Year. Thank you for standing with us while we continue to defend and advance freedom of expression around the world. Here’s to another year of collaboration, courage, and impact. Onwards!
-The CGFoE Team
-The CGFoE Team
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Today marks five years since Vietnam unjustly convicted three writers and journalists: Le Huu Minh Tuan, Pham Chi Dung, and Nguyen Tuong Thuy. Their ongoing imprisonment demonstrates how the Vietnamese government silences independent voices. pen.org/press-releas...
January 5, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Today marks five years since Vietnam unjustly convicted three writers and journalists: Le Huu Minh Tuan, Pham Chi Dung, and Nguyen Tuong Thuy. Their ongoing imprisonment demonstrates how the Vietnamese government silences independent voices. pen.org/press-releas...
What Lucía, Susana, Norma, and Fátima endured was extreme consequence of sexual violence – being compelled to give birth & assume motherhood when they were still children, said Catalina Martínez Coral to Lautaro Furfaro in a recent interview: globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/publications...
Portraits of FoE Defenders: Interview with Catalina Martínez Coral - Global Freedom of Expression
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to advance understanding of the international and national norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression in an inter-...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What Lucía, Susana, Norma, and Fátima endured was extreme consequence of sexual violence – being compelled to give birth & assume motherhood when they were still children, said Catalina Martínez Coral to Lautaro Furfaro in a recent interview: globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/publications...
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The "embarrassing, scandalous coda" of the Supreme Court's TikTok decision--new from @evelyndouek.bsky.social and me. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer
The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s pen
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The "embarrassing, scandalous coda" of the Supreme Court's TikTok decision--new from @evelyndouek.bsky.social and me. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Over the coming months, #SCOTUS will confront other cases in which the gov't invokes NatSec to justify the suppression of speech. ... [It] should be haunted by the #TikTok case & its ... scandalous coda," @jameeljaffer.bsky.social & @evelyndouek.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer
The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s pen
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Over the coming months, #SCOTUS will confront other cases in which the gov't invokes NatSec to justify the suppression of speech. ... [It] should be haunted by the #TikTok case & its ... scandalous coda," @jameeljaffer.bsky.social & @evelyndouek.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Türkiye: Enver Aysever Arrested over Political Commentary Online
Find out more 👉 go.coe.int/iTTLz
Alert submitted by @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @europeanjournalists.org & @ifjglobal.bsky.social
#EuropeForFreeMedia
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Find out more 👉 go.coe.int/iTTLz
Alert submitted by @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @europeanjournalists.org & @ifjglobal.bsky.social
#EuropeForFreeMedia
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December 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Türkiye: Enver Aysever Arrested over Political Commentary Online
Find out more 👉 go.coe.int/iTTLz
Alert submitted by @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @europeanjournalists.org & @ifjglobal.bsky.social
#EuropeForFreeMedia
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Find out more 👉 go.coe.int/iTTLz
Alert submitted by @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @europeanjournalists.org & @ifjglobal.bsky.social
#EuropeForFreeMedia
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Thrilled to announce the release of 2 new reports today as part of the 36 country, @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. The 1st examines the development & concentration conditions in German telecoms, internet & media industries. gmicp.org/media-teleco... 1/
Media, Telecommunication, and Internet Concentration in Germany 2019-2023
A report produced by the Germany research team of the Global Media and Internet Research Project
This report examines major structural changes in Germany’s media industries, documenting the steady e...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Thrilled to announce the release of 2 new reports today as part of the 36 country, @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. The 1st examines the development & concentration conditions in German telecoms, internet & media industries. gmicp.org/media-teleco... 1/
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December 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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🎈I had to teach my daughter that in #Turkey, sometimes, not only bad people go to prison, says @cyber-rights.org explaining the work of #FoE defenders.
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Interviews with Freedom of Expression Defenders: Yaman Akdeniz
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December 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🎈I had to teach my daughter that in #Turkey, sometimes, not only bad people go to prison, says @cyber-rights.org explaining the work of #FoE defenders.
@engelliweb.com
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZJZ...
@engelliweb.com
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❗AFRICA in Focus❗ #South_Africa: Politician’s call to “kill” amounts to hate speech #Zambia: Lifting interdict blocking documentary on Chinese investment #Kenya: Injunction regarding reporting on alleged misconduct #Nigeria: Supreme Court confirmed FOI Act. us8.campaign-archive.com?u=5b024e7a0c...
December 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
❗AFRICA in Focus❗ #South_Africa: Politician’s call to “kill” amounts to hate speech #Zambia: Lifting interdict blocking documentary on Chinese investment #Kenya: Injunction regarding reporting on alleged misconduct #Nigeria: Supreme Court confirmed FOI Act. us8.campaign-archive.com?u=5b024e7a0c...
#Türkiye blocked 1,264,506 websites.
Removed 5,740 news articles last year alone. (Data by @ifade.org.tr ) Still, Dr. Yaman Akdeniz keeps fighting—and winning—for #FoE.
More in our latest newsletter + interview ⬇️
🔗 mailchi.mp/columbia/foe...
Removed 5,740 news articles last year alone. (Data by @ifade.org.tr ) Still, Dr. Yaman Akdeniz keeps fighting—and winning—for #FoE.
More in our latest newsletter + interview ⬇️
🔗 mailchi.mp/columbia/foe...
FoE in Türkiye | Yaman Akdeniz: “We Should Never Normalize Censorship”
X v. Union of India (Sahyog Portal), ECtHR on Russia, Türkiye
mailchi.mp
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#Türkiye blocked 1,264,506 websites.
Removed 5,740 news articles last year alone. (Data by @ifade.org.tr ) Still, Dr. Yaman Akdeniz keeps fighting—and winning—for #FoE.
More in our latest newsletter + interview ⬇️
🔗 mailchi.mp/columbia/foe...
Removed 5,740 news articles last year alone. (Data by @ifade.org.tr ) Still, Dr. Yaman Akdeniz keeps fighting—and winning—for #FoE.
More in our latest newsletter + interview ⬇️
🔗 mailchi.mp/columbia/foe...
Digital rights expert Yaman Akdeniz talks about the latest in #Turkey & reminds us why censorship must never be normalized. Read the interview ⬇️https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/publications/portraits-of-foe-defenders-interview-with-yaman-akdeniz-we-should-never-normalize-censorship/
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Digital rights expert Yaman Akdeniz talks about the latest in #Turkey & reminds us why censorship must never be normalized. Read the interview ⬇️https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/publications/portraits-of-foe-defenders-interview-with-yaman-akdeniz-we-should-never-normalize-censorship/
🌈👏👏CGFoE Celebrates Historic Dominican Court Ruling Protecting #lgbti Rights and Advancing Equality. Case was brought by our Senior Legal&Policy Consultant Anderson Javiel Dirocie De León & Patricia M. Santana Nina, a constitutional law expert.
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CGFoE Celebrates Historic Dominican Court Ruling Protecting LGBTI Rights and Advancing Equality - Global Freedom of Expression
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to advance understanding of the international and national norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression in an inter-...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
🌈👏👏CGFoE Celebrates Historic Dominican Court Ruling Protecting #lgbti Rights and Advancing Equality. Case was brought by our Senior Legal&Policy Consultant Anderson Javiel Dirocie De León & Patricia M. Santana Nina, a constitutional law expert.
globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/updates/2025...
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📢Disinformation, Media Under Siege | Amal Clooney Calls for Justice. Read all & more↘️
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November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
📢Disinformation, Media Under Siege | Amal Clooney Calls for Justice. Read all & more↘️
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From endless delays in response time to ridiculously overbroad ██████ redactions, FOIA is plagued with problems.
Urge Congress to reform the law using our easy action center tool:
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November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
From endless delays in response time to ridiculously overbroad ██████ redactions, FOIA is plagued with problems.
Urge Congress to reform the law using our easy action center tool:
Urge Congress to reform the law using our easy action center tool:
A federal judge in Washington handed down an 18-month sentence to Timothy Martin, who, along with Joanna Smith, staged a climate protest at the DC gallery in spring 2023. This + more about climate action & latest decisions: mailchi.mp/columbia/cop...
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A federal judge in Washington handed down an 18-month sentence to Timothy Martin, who, along with Joanna Smith, staged a climate protest at the DC gallery in spring 2023. This + more about climate action & latest decisions: mailchi.mp/columbia/cop...
IPSO ruled that DailyMail violated accuracy obligations by publishing a misleading headline, while Brazil’s Supreme Court found that Google, Meta, Spotify & Brasil Paralelo contributed to disinformation by running coordinated campaigns against a proposed "Censorship Bill"- mailchi.mp/columbia/int...
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
IPSO ruled that DailyMail violated accuracy obligations by publishing a misleading headline, while Brazil’s Supreme Court found that Google, Meta, Spotify & Brasil Paralelo contributed to disinformation by running coordinated campaigns against a proposed "Censorship Bill"- mailchi.mp/columbia/int...
‼️Aryeh Neier on assault on #FoE and capitulation of US institutions.
For more, check our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/columbia/hat...
For more, check our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/columbia/hat...
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
‼️Aryeh Neier on assault on #FoE and capitulation of US institutions.
For more, check our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/columbia/hat...
For more, check our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/columbia/hat...