United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Perspectives
Redaktion: McGonagle, Tarlach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There are a multitude of UN legal instruments which pertain to the rights of freedom of expression and information, and this book is the first to comprehensively map them and their function. It details the chequered history of both of these rights within the UN system and evaluates the suitability of the system for overcoming contemporary challenges and threats to the rights. Leading scholars address key issues, such as how the rights to freedom of expression and information can come into conflict with other human rights and with public policy goals, such as counter-terrorism. The book's institutional focus comprises five international treaties, UNESCO and the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression. Relevant for academics, lawyers, policy-makers and civil society actors, it also examines how new communication technologies have prompted fresh thinking about the substance and scope of the rights to freedom of expression and information.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316028186
• Artikelnr.: 53000721

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Nigel Rodley; 1. The development of freedom of expression and
information within the UN: leaps and bounds or fits and starts? Tarlach
McGonagle; Part I. UN Normative and Institutional Approaches to the
Protection of Freedom of Expression and Information: 2. International
covenant on civil and political rights: interpreting freedom of expression
and information standards for the present and the future Michael
O'Flaherty; 3. International covenant on economic, social and cultural
rights: accessibility and the right to information Yvonne Donders; 4.
International convention on the elimination of all forms of racial
discrimination: the prohibition of 'racist hate speech' Patrick Thornberry;
5. Convention on the rights of the child: freedom of expression for
children Lucy Smith; 6. Convention on the rights of persons with
disabilities: ensuring full and equal access to information Eliza Varney;
7. UNESCO: freedom of expression, information and the media Sylvie Coudray;
8. The UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression:
progressive development of international standards relating to freedom of
expression Toby Mendel; Part II. Elected Thematic Focuses: 9. Ten
challenges for the right to information in the age of mega-leaks Helen
Darbishire; 10. Early days: the UN, ICTs and freedom of expression Karol
Jakubowicz; 11. A new vision of values, accountability and mission for
journalism Aidan White; 12. Uprooting 'defamation of religions' and
planting a new approach to freedom of expression at the UN Sejal Parmar;
13. Limits to freedom of expression: lessons from counter-terrorism Martin
Scheinin; 14. Tacit citing: the scarcity of judicial dialogue between the
global and the regional human rights mechanisms in freedom of expression
cases Antoine Buyse.