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“There was a lot of very fresh and impressive content there throughout – with interesting case studies from all regions”

–Bill Orme – Founding Partner at International Media Development Advisers

The 2018 Justice for Free Expression Conference opened with an Update from the Global Freedom of Expression Community about its members’ latest initiatives and work to strengthen a global understanding of freedom of expression. During the panel, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression presented its new Teaching Portal, planned for launch in late 2018.

The first panel focused on Global Milestones and Challenges. Experts presented and debated freedom of expression developments in law and jurisprudence of the last 24 months in their regions of focus.

The panel on Private Actors and Human Rights Online sought to highlight the human rights implications of a privatized and commodified internet, and the recent legal, political and self-regulatory, as well as technical developments.

The panel co-organised with the University of Los Andes focused on the Sustainable Development Goal 16 that aims to “Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.” Six panelists debated the role of the Judiciary and of the Media in meeting SDG 16, the policies that must be in place to achieve them, as well as the challenges to foster rule of law, freedom of expression and access to information in the present international environment.

For the fourth panel titled Around the World in 7 decisions, legal scholars illustrated the past 18 months through the lens of one particularly important decision from their jurisdictions. Countries covered included South Africa, India, Tunisia, Kenya, Pakistan, Brazil and the European Court for Human Rights.

The following panel on Framing Radicalization and Radical Speech examined how Governments, courts and societies around the world were approaching and defining the concept of “radicalization” and “radicalized” individuals, including in the context of cases testing the limits of freedom of expression.

The final panel of the Conference focused on the Regulation of Lies and “Fake News” in Elections and addressed the various ways in which Governments and Courts were responding to “lies” and “Fake News”, and the extent to which controlling fake news online was simply a matter of extending off-line laws to the digital arena.

Agenda

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Participants

The richness of the discussions at the Conference was made possible by our great community of experts, academics, legal practitioners and activists. Over 50 speakers and some 100 attendees shared their knowledge and perspectives, debated current and future issues, and collaborated on existing and new initiatives over the two days of the event. Further, the speaker selection achieved gender balance and regional diversity, with some 30 countries represented.

Click here to see each participant’s photo and their bio

Panel Videos

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Welcome and Introduction |

Speakers |

|:-:|:-:| | | Agnès Callamard, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, DirectorLee C. Bollinger, Columbia University, President |

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Update from the Global Freedom of Expression Community |

Updates from |

|:-:|:-:| | | Hawley Johnson, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, US (Chair)Kyu Youm, University of Oregon, USMonroe Price, Price Moot Court, UKGeorge Freeman, Media Law Resource Center, USKarin Deutsch Karlekar, PEN America, USJonathan McCully, MLDI, UKSofia Jaramillo Otoya, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, US |

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Global Milestones and Challenges |

Panel Participants |

|:-:|:-:| | | Agnès Callamard, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, US (Chair)Rebecca MacKinnon, Director, Ranking Digital Rights, USToby Mendel, Center for Law and Democracy, CanadaVidushi Marda, ARTICLE 19, IndiaJameel Jaffer, Knight First Amendment Center, USEdison Lanza, Office of the Special Rapporteur, IACmHRAndrey Rikhter, Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE |

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Private Actors and Human Rights On-Line |

Panel Participants |

|:-:|:-:| | | Rebecca MacKinnon, Ranking Digital Rights, US (Chair)Chinmayi Arun, National Law University, IndiaBertrand de la Chapelle, Internet & Jurisdiction, FranceOna Flores, Office of the Special Rapporteur, IACmHRChristopher Bavitz, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard, USPeter Stern, Facebook, USYaman Akdeniz, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey |

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SDG 16 Seeking Protection & Justice for Freedom of Expression & Information |

Panel Participants |

|:-:|:-:| | | Catalina Botero, School of Law Universidad de los Andes (Chair)Alejandro Álvarez, Executive Office of the UN Secretary GeneralBill Orme, Global Forum for Media DevelopmentGuilherme Canela, UNESCO Montevideo OfficeIrene Khan, International Development Law OrganizationLucy Turner, Global Alliance for SDG16Michael Camilleri, Inter-American Dialogue |

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Around the World in 7 decisions |

Panel Participants |

|:-:|:-:| | | Doreen Weisenhaus, Northwestern University, US (Chair)Dario Milo, Partner, Webber Wentzel, South AfricaKaruna Nundy, Advocate, IndiaRichard Danbury, De Montfort University, UK Issaaf Ben Khalifa, UN OHCHR, TunisiaUmer Gilani, The Law and Policy Chambers, PakistanTais Gasparian, RBMDF – Advogados, Brazil |

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Framing Radicalisation and Radical Speech |

Panel Participants |

|:-:|:-:| | | Sandra Coliver, Open Society, US (Chair)Alexander Verkhovsky, Sova Center, RussiaFaiza Patel, NYU, Brennan Center, USAAdam Weiss, European Roma Rights Center, HungaryJoelle Fiss, Freelance, SwitzerlandBernard Harcourt, Columbia University, USYasmine Ahmed, Rights Watch, UK |

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Regulating Lies and “Fake News” in Elections |

Panel Participants |

|:-:|:-:| | | Suzanne Nossel, PEN America, US (Chair)James Weinstein, Arizona State University, USMarianne Diaz, Derechos Digitales, ChileTarlach McGonagle, University of Amsterdam, NetherlandsJonathan Corpus Ong, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, USMishi Choudhary, Software Freedom Law Center, IndiaAlex Warofka, Facebook, US |

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