The United Nations and freedom of expression and information : critical perspectives / edited by Tarlach McGonagle and Yvonne Donders.
2015
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Title
The United Nations and freedom of expression and information : critical perspectives / edited by Tarlach McGonagle and Yvonne Donders.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Call Number
K3253 .U55 2015
ISBN
9781107083868 (hardback)
1107083869 (hardback)
1107083869 (hardback)
Description
xxiv, 508 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)902659783
Summary
"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 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Dedication and appreciation
vii
Notes on contributors
xiii
Foreword / Sir Nigel Rodley
xx
List of acronyms and abbreviations
xxii
Acknowledgements
xxiv
1.
development of freedom of expression and information within the UN: leaps and bounds or fits and starts? / Tarlach McGonagle
1
pt. I
UN normative and institutional approaches to the protection of freedom of expression and information
53
2.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: interpreting freedom of expression and information standards for the present and the future / Michael O'Flaherty
55
3.
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: accessibility and the right to information / Yvonne Donders
89
4.
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: the prohibition of `racist hate speech' / Patrick Thornberry
121
5.
Convention on the Rights of the Child: freedom of expression for children / Lucy Smith
145
6.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: ensuring full and equal access to information / Eliza Varney
171
7.
UNESCO: freedom of expression, information and the media / Sylvie Coudray
208
8.
UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression: progressive development of international standards relating to freedom of expression / Toby Mendel
235
pt. II
Selected thematic focuses
269
9.
Ten challenges for the right to information in the age of mega-leaks / Helen Darbishire
271
10.
Early days: the UN, ICTs and freedom of expression / Karol Jakubowicz
304
11.
new vision of values, accountability and mission for journalism / Aidan White
350
12.
Uprooting `defamation of religions' and planting a new approach to freedom of expression at the United Nations / Sejal Parmar
373
13.
Limits to freedom of expression: lessons from counter-terrorism / Martin Scheinin
428
14.
Tacit citing: the scarcity of judicial dialogue between the global and the regional human rights mechanisms in freedom of expression cases / Antoine Buyse
443
Appendix: Human Rights Committee General Comment No. 34: Article 19: Freedoms of opinion and expression, UN Doc. CCPR/C/GC/34, 12 September 2011
466
Index
484