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“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity and the mother of truth.”
– Liu Xaiobo, Chinese dissident
and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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“We are grownups. And we will decide.”
– Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian-born writer and muslim feminist,
on the Arab spring
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“Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.”
– Elie Wiesel, Nobel Piece Prize Laureate, Writer, Holocaust survivor
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“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”
– Immanuel Kant
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“The genocide was brutal, criminal and disgusting and continued for 100 days under the eyes of the international community.”
– Roméo Dallaire, Force Commander of United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda, during the genocide in 1993
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“Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“Free societies... are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”
– Salman Rushdie
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“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

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Date: 16 Jul 2024

Tag: Aaron Rhodes, European Convention on Human Rights, Jacob Mchangama

Wall Street Journal: The Problem with European HR

The original purpose of the European Convention on Human rights was to codify the freedoms protected by liberal European democracies and thus serve as a bulwark against the reemergence of totalitarianism. But judges have continuously interpreted the convention far beyond its wording and original purpose, Jacob Mchangama and Aaron Rhodes of the Freedom Rights Project argue in The Wall Street Journal Europe.

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Date: 13 Jun 2024

Tag: European Convention on Human Rights, Paulina Neuding, Rights inflation

What’s Wrong with Europe’s Human Rights System?

The human rights institution of the Council of Europe has been one of history’s most successful human rights initiatives, but today it is struggling with fundamental problems. In late April, ministers and top diplomats from 47 countries assembled in Brighton, England, to stake out the way forward. But the problems at the core of the European Human Rights System once again were not addressed.

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Date: 23 Mar 2024

Tag: Freedom of Speech, Jacob Mchangama

The Evolution of Censorship

Jacob Mchangama at Oslo Freedom Forum 2011.

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