Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) - Stakeholders

The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) is a newly launched advocacy organization that promotes the rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights and freedoms with a special focus on Turkey.

SCF, a non-proft organization, was set up by a group of journalists who have been forced to live in self-exile in Sweden against the backdrop of a massive crackdown on press freedom in Turkey.

SCF is committed to serving as a reference source by providing a broader picture of rights violations in Turkey, monitoring daily developments on fact-based investigative journalism and documenting individual cases of the infringement of fundamental rights.

The EJN 5 Point Test For Hate Speech - HTML5 video

How can journalists determine what is hate speech? The EJN gives five points which media professionals should review before they publish

Fighting for recognition: Online abuse of women bloggers in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States - Academic Sources

This study argues that democratic potential of social media in democracies remains haphazard because online abuse is not fully recognized as entangling online and offline communication, constituted and constructed through technological, legal, social, and cultural factors. It is based on interviews with 109 bloggers who write about feminisms, family, and/or maternity politics. According to the findings 73.4% had negative experiences due to blogging and/or social media use

The Right to Information Is a Human Right, Strasbourg Rules - Legal Resources

Hungarian authorities erred when they refused to provide a human rights NGO access to information – an essential part of freedom of expression – about the employment of pro deo lawyers

Violations of journalists rights in Ukraine - First half 2016 Monday 23 January 2017 - Infographic

  Kiev-based Institute of Mass Information aggregates the result of its monthly "Freedom of Speech Barometer", presenting in this infographic the cases of press freedom violation in Ukraine

Institute of Mass Information (Ukraine) - Stakeholders

The Institute of Mass Information (IMI) is a Kiev-based non-governmental organization whose objective is to defend journalists’ rights, to upgrade their professional skills and to consolidate press freedom in Ukraine.

IMI publishes regular news about violations of press freedom in Ukraine, as well as extensive reports and analyses of press freedom in the country.

Conference: Promoting dialogue between the European Court of Human Rights and the media freedom community - Opportunities

Registration will close on February 10 for the conference “Promoting dialogue between the ECtHR and the media freedom community”, to be held in Strasbourg on 24 of March 2017

Joan Shorenstein Fellowship - Opportunities

One-semester residential fellowships to advance research in the field of media, politics and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge

Media Literacy Training 1 - Opportunities

Three international media literacy workshops will take place in 2017 (in Austria, Poland and Germany) with the aim to share good practices against hate speech and discrimination

Developing Internet Universality indicators - a UNESCO project - Opportunities

UNESCO’s project and online consultation to define Internet Universality indicators aims to build a framework of indicators through which to assess levels of achievement, in individual countries and internationally, of the four fundamental principles included in the Internet Universality concept