Statement.

ARTICLE 19 welcomes the initiative by the Kenyan government to legislate against hate speech and to pre-empt incidents of incitement to hatred and violence.

In this Comment, ARTICLE 19 sets out its concerns about the Prohibition of Hate Speech Bill, 2007 of Kenya.

Press release on the release of an analysis of draft Broadcasting Law.

Article on the right to truth as part of the broader right of access to information.

Statement on the Blasphemy Amendment in Ireland.

Statement regarding the decision of the Secretary of State for the Home Department to ban Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament, from travelling to the UK on the basis that “his statements about Muslims and their beliefs, as expressed in [his] film Fitna and elsewhere, would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the UK” is in contravention with international and European human rights law on freedom of expression and should be reversed.

Letter to Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs regarding concerns at indications we have received that the United Kingdom may decide to withdraw from the Durban Review Conference and its Preparatory Process.

Press release welcoming the recommendation of an official report on ‘memory laws’ that no new laws on ‘historical truth’ and memory should be adopted.

Press release on ground-breaking seminar on freedom of expression and advocacy of religious hatred.

Conference paper on the expert meeting on the links between Articles 19 and 20 of the ICCPR: freedom of expression and advocacy of religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.

Statement protesting the sentencing of reporter Rafiq Tagi and editor Samir Sadagatoglu to, respectively, three and four years in prison for incitement of religious hatred.

ARTICLE 19's Executive Director, Dr Agnes Callamard, called for unleashing the power of freedom of expression to combat racism, in a key note speech addressed to a European Council expert conference on 16 November 2006.

ARTICLE 19 calls on the French authorities to scrap proposals to adopt a law prohibiting any denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide.

Article by ARTICLE 19’s Executive Director, Dr Agnes Callamard entitled “Freedom of speech and offence: why blasphemy laws are not the appropriate response” published in the magazine Equal Voices.

Statement published on the Guardian Unlimited website, in which ARTICLE 19's Executive Director, Dr Agnès Callamard, argues that rappers like Aki Nawaz help us understand the issues that really matter in society.

Dr. Agnès Callamard's reflections on hate speech.

Opinion piece by Dr. Agnès Callamard which appeared in The Guardian, concerning the controversy surrounding cartoons published by Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

Amicus curiae brief submitted by ARTICLE 19 and Interights in the case of Incal v. Turkey arguing for the broad protection of political speech and narrow restrictions on hate speech.

Book containing a collection of essays which examine international law on the regulation of hate speech, and the experiences of 15 countries which have legislation in this area.

On behalf of the International Committee for the Defence of Salman Rushdie, this report argues for the abolition of the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in Britain. The Committee declares the law an infringement on freedom of expression and sets forth the case for the complete abolition of the law.