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In April 2019, ISLP, in collaboration with the Media Institute of Southern Africa Zimbabwe (MISA) held a strategic litigation workshop dedicated to analyzing and discussing freedom of expression from an [...]
In March of 2019, our volunteers served as trial observers in controversial, politicized criminal trials in Casablanca and Istanbul. In each case autocratic regimes punished freedom of expression and [...]
Earlier this week, ISLP volunteer lawyer, David Bulbulia, and ISLP's Myanmar in-country consultant, Laura Draper, delivered a workshop to lawyers at Justice Base, an NGO working on rule of law in Myanmar. [...]
ISLP scored a first when its Media Law Working Group wrote and filed an amicus curiae brief in a Palestinian court trying a blogger whose Facebook post angered politicians. [...]
Together with the Committee to Protect Journalists and two other prominent NGOs, ISLP wrote and filed an amicus curiae brief with the European Court of Human Rights in the [...]
(NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 2, 2018) The total intransigence of the Ortega regime in Nicaragua to halt its gross human rights violations requires urgent action by the Inter-American Court [...]
ISLP’s pro bono client, a prominent United Nations Special Rapporteur, recently praised our team for the “excellent” amicus curiae brief we wrote for her in an important freedom of [...]
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) will be working with ISLP to provide pro bono legal advice, particularly around contracts, to the female journalists in IWMF programs. The service [...]
"Is it Time for the Media to Intervene in Strasbourg" argues that the media community in Europe should act with urgency to make greater use of 'third party interventions' [...]
ISLP recently observed a court hearing in which human rights defender and lawyer, Yessika Hoyos Morales, gave testimony in the trial of the man accused of ordering the killing [...]