Freedom of expression Freedom of expression is essential in informing and facilitating the realisation of other fundamental human rights. It is particularly important in situations where human rights abuses are occurring.
The rights to freedom of opinion and expression grant all people the right to express themselves, and to seek, receive and impart information through any medium. The United Nations Human Rights Committee qualified freedom of opinion and expression as “indispensable conditions for the full development of the person”
Freedom of expression allows pluralist dialogue and creates a secure platform for critical voices. It ensures that people have the right to seek, obtain, receive and hold information about human rights and human rights violations.
States should ensure that people are able to peacefully protest, publicise and circulate information, and criticise the failure of governments to protect or promote human rights.
Violations of the right to freedom of expression have wide implications for society as a whole. Freedom of expression is fundamental to the underlying values of democracy, and is essential for a free and independent media space. This includes the right of anybody, especially human rights defenders, to have access to and use of information technologies and the media of one’s choice, including radio, television and the Internet.
Human rights defenders do not have more rights than other people but, as with journalists and media workers or lawyers, those holding power often aim at silencing them. Hence, they need higher protection to be able to express their opinions and promote any human right. This applies even more for those expressing dissenting views, defending the rights of persons belonging to minorities, or espousing minority beliefs.
The manifestation of dissenting views can take different forms. It can be through peaceful protests or media, during public events, or through calling for boycotts, such as of an electoral process or a referendum. States must comply with both negative and positive obligations. That is, refraining from interfering with the right to express dissenting views, and adopting measures to protect the expression of views in a peaceful way.
Restrictions on dissenting views
There is a trend for States to try to silence human rights defenders that express dissenting views, especially critics of the government and those divulging cases of corruption or reporting on human rights abuses. Similarly, after years of progress, States are now adopting more restrictive legislation that criminalises defamation online and offline.
Mindful of the significant negative impact of measures that restrict dissenting views, the Human Rights Council has sought to encourage States to address this trend. It has welcomed steps – such as decriminalising defamation – that protect human rights defenders from being prosecuted for peaceful activities.
Human rights defenders must be able to carry out their work without fear of retaliation for expressing critical points of view.
Freedom of expression
| Source: | humanrightshouse.org |
| Published: | Apr 19, 2020 |
| Author: | Staff |
| Post Date: | 2020-04-19 09:27:14 by Gatlin |
| Views: | 3460 |
#1: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#0)
FUCK YOU GLOBALIST CHICKEN SHIT!
A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-19 09:28:40 Reply Private Reply
#2: misterwhite To: Gatlin (#0)
What we have today is "Freedom of minority expression". I would love to see freedom of expression for everyone. But we don't have that, do we?
Expressing ourselves can result in being called a racist, xenophobe, anti- semite, homophobe, misogynist, insensitive, intolerant, spewing hate, and inciting violence.
Our entire society is upside down, bending over backwards not to offend any minority while watching our society crumble in the name of "diversity" and "inclusion". It used to be that people achieved real diversity and inclusion by earning it.
misterwhite posted on 2020-04-19 09:52:36 Reply Private Reply
#3: A K A Stone To: misterwhite (#2)
We have freedom of speech not expression.
A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-19 09:53:32 Reply Private Reply
#4: Gatlin To: All Posters - Stone Has Lost It ... (#1)
Gatlin posted on 2020-04-19 09:57:11 Reply Private Reply
#5: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#3)
Gatlin posted on 2020-04-19 10:01:57 Reply Private Reply
#6: Gatlin To: misterwhite (#2)
Gatlin posted on 2020-04-19 10:06:47 Reply Private Reply
#7: Gatlin To: A K A Stone, And those watching Stone's hissy fit (#6)
Gatlin posted on 2020-04-19 10:14:00 Reply Private Reply
#8: misterwhite To: A K A Stone (#3)
''If the only expression that the 1st Amendment protects is the expression of ideas and opinions, then most music and art, and much of literature, are unprotected,'' Judge Richard Posner said. ''This would be a shocking contradiction of the 1st Amendment as it has come to be understood. If the only way to exclude nude dancing from the protection of the amendment is to exclude all non-political art and literature as well, the price is too high.''
-- Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. (90-26), 501 U.S. 560 (1991)
misterwhite posted on 2020-04-19 11:42:25 Reply Private Reply
#9: Gatlin To: A K A Stone. All freedom of speech lovers (#1)
Gatlin posted on 2020-04-19 13:28:02 Reply Private Reply
#10: Deckard To: Gatlin, AKA Stone (#7)
Get over yourself princess - nothing about you is superb.
For there has been a number of times today that if you don’t agree with what is being posted to you – You will then delete the post.
Yet you have no problem when Stone deletes mine, do you hypocrite?
God bless freedom of speech and may it long exist
Unless it's something Tater disagrees with or is critical of cops or government or dissents from the official narrative of events.
Please, don't try and paint yourself as a champion of Freedom - your posting history here says otherwise.
Deckard posted on 2020-04-19 13:54:03 Reply Private Reply
#11: Gatlin To: Deckard (#10)
Gatlin posted on 2020-04-19 14:14:52 Reply Private Reply
#12: Gatlin To: Deckard (#10)
Gatlin posted on 2020-04-19 14:55:52 Reply Private Reply
#13: Gatlin To: Deckard (#10)
Gatlin posted on 2020-04-19 14:56:53 Reply Private Reply