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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: 19 Feb 2024

Tag: human rights

International Human Rights Activist Aaron Rhodes in an exclusive interview with The Oslo Times

International Human Rights Activist,essayist and university lecturer based in Hamburg,Germany, Aaron Rhodes, in an exclusive interview with The Oslo Times International News Network’s Editor-in-Chief, Hatef Mokhtar, spoke about pertaining human rights issues in Europe including the growing religious and political extremism in various countries across Europe. Rhodes, who is also a co-founder of the Freedom Rights Pro

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Date: 15 Feb 2024

Tag: Democracy, Extremism, Terrorism

The Economist: Shooting at cartoonists, again

After this weekend’s events in Copenhagen, which took place just one month after the Charlie Hebdo-attack in Paris, it is the worst possible time for politicians to slacken, even by careless use of language, their determination to protect liberty of expression. CEO Jacob Mchangama says that above all, politicians should avoid the trap of saying or implying that violence was really the fault of provocateurs, or that r

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Date: 14 Feb 2024

Tag: free speech, salman rushdie

We Need to Defend the Right to Offend

Article in National Review Online by Jacob Mchangama. “Today marks the 26th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie. The horrible events in Paris on January 7 serve as a brutal reminder that the obscurantist spirit of the fatwa lives on. Modern societies must therefore grapple with the meaning and consequences of the irreconcilable differences between those who demand protection for religious

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