ARTICLE 19

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Updated 01/07/2022
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Updated 11/18/2025
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08/24/2022

Restrictions on right to abortion brings new threat to free speech in US

The United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade on 24 June 2022, and with it, the right to abortion as a constitutional right. A number of states took immediate action: in South Carolina, moves are underway to make it illegal to provide information about abortion; in Texas, people are being encouraged to spy and report on anyone who offers assistance to people getting an abortion. Jo Glanville talks to Quinn McKew, Executive Director for ARTICLE 19, First Amendment expert, lawyer and ARTICLE 19 trustee Bob Latham, and Alexandra Reeve Givens, CEO at the Center for Democracy and Technology, about the attack on reproductive rights, but also on people’s right to access information and to freely express themselves.
01/27/2022

Why the right to protest matters

In the second podcast in ARTICLE 19's series 'Boundaries of Expression', journalist and editor Jo Glanville talks to Patricia Meléndez, head of civic space at ARTICLE 19, Gully Bujak, action planner at Extinction Rebellion, and Glacier Kwong, a political activist from Hong Kong about the threats to protest and how to protect a fundamental democratic right. The podcast was recorded in London on 20 January 2022.
02/21/2023

Big Brother vs Big Other

The 20th century birthed ‘Big Brother’ - an omnipresent surveillance state - but the 21st century's digital surveillance capacities have created a ‘Big Other’ - online corporations watching us more closely than any state apparatus ever has - the difference is, we’ve put Big Other in our own pockets and homes. Emily Hart is joined by Luis Fernando García, Executive Director and co-founder of Mexican digital rights organisation R3D, and Tomaso Falchetta, who leads Privacy International's global policy engagement. They'll be digging into issues of online privacy and surveillance - how much do we even know about the data being collected on us? Why does it matter to our human rights and democracies? What can we do?
04/25/2022

Ep 3: Maria Baronova

Former Editor-in-Chief of 'Russia Today' (now 'RT') tells Nicola about her years in activism, her decision to join the state-run TV network and why she quit after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February. Maria describes the threats, intimidation and violent attacks against her and her hopes for a free and independent Russian media. To learn more about ARTICLE 19's work, visit our website.
02/07/2023

From Big Tech to Titan Tech

This week, we are looking a little deeper into the murky world of social media companies and search engines - and the gargantuan power they exercise over our online lives as well as our human rights. Emily Hart is joined by Carolina Botero of Colombian digital rights campaign Karisma and regulation expert Dr Liza Luffdal Gormsen - they'll be looking at regulation, and talking about whether the models currently emerging in Europe can work in other contexts, given the radically different factors at play. To learn more about ARTICLE 19 and the work we do, head to https://www.article19.org/ Follow us on:Twitter: https://twitter.com/article19org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ARTICLE19org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/article19/
10/17/2024

S2, Ep 11: Syrian investigative reporter Ali Al-Ibrahim

It's 2011 and a spark has been lit, the Arab Spring sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa, toppling despotic regimes one by one. In the Syrian capital Damascus, journalist Ali Al-Ibrahim is studying for a master’s degree at university when the protests reach the surrounding streets. It was a hopeful moment, that something might be about to change. Then the government of President Bashar al-Assad responded. The crackdowns against peaceful protesters were swift and harsh, and reports of torture, disappearances and killings followed soon after. In this episode of 'Silenced', Nicola Kelly speaks to Ali about his work investigating human rights abuses inside his country, the challenges of gathering evidence from exile, and the importance of cross-border work to hold the regime and ISIS militants to account for the atrocities they have committed. Presented by Nicola Kelly Producer: Kevin Caners
11/18/2025

Digital Freedom in Iran - EP 4: Digital harassment

In the final episode of ARTICLE 19’s podcast series on Iran, journalist and producer Jo Glanville discusses online harassment with Simin Fahandej, the representative of the Bahá’í International Community’s United Nations Office in Geneva, and Azadeh Pourzand, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Siamak Pourzand Foundation. Last month, the UN fact-finding mission on Iran warned of an increasing crackdown since the war with Israel in June, with more than 21,000 arrests and mistreatment of minorities and journalists. There’s evidence that digital harassment is on the increase within this climate of repression, not only in Iran but transnationally as well. Tactics include smear campaigns, hacking, surveillance and direct threats which all are a chill on free speech, creating insecurity and fear. Despite this, Fahandej and Pourzand both see evidence of a vibrant civic space in Iran. Follow ARTICLE 19 on:Twitter: https://twitter.com/article19org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ARTICLE19org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/article19/
09/19/2024

S2, Ep 9: Sanjar Sohail, Afghan journalist and publisher

On 15 August 2021, veteran journalist Sanjar Sohail watched in horror as the Afghan capital Kabul fell to the Taliban once again. Though he was safe at his home in Canada, Sanjar was responsible for a network of reporters across Afghanistan. Fifteen years earlier, he had set up Hasht-e-Subh. The media outlet had gained notoriety for its investigative reporting, pioneering a new type of journalism previously unfamiliar to Afghans. Its reporters were known for their tenacity, digging up stories that those in power wanted to bury. Now that the Taliban had returned, the lives of all those who worked for the platform were at immediate risk. In this episode, Nicola speaks to Sanjar about his recollections from the day of the takeover; how his network of reporters operate under the Taliban, and what he and his colleagues do to ensure sources still inside Afghanistan are protected. Presented by Nicola KellyProducer: Kevin Caners
04/11/2022

Ep 2: Olga Tokariuk

Ukrainian journalist Olga Tokariuk speaks to Nicola from a bomb shelter in the west of the country. She describes the tentacles of the Russian propaganda machine and the sophisticated disinformation war that has been waged in Ukraine since 2014; journalist safety, including the deliberate targeting of journalists and those killed, kidnapped and disappeared; and how best to get impartial information out to the world. Olga says: "War is not only waged on the battlefield with tanks and military vehicles and missiles and air defence systems; it's also waged in the media space. Russia has been waging this war against Ukraine since at least 2014, when it understood that Ukraine is slipping away from them and they are not able to control it the way they used to." To learn more about ARTICLE 19's work, visit our website.
06/27/2024

S2, Ep 3: Hiba Morgan, Al Jazeera Sudan correspondent

With western media outlets dubbing the conflict in Sudan a “forgotten war”, what role do journalists play in making sure the world doesn’t look away? On the morning of 15 April 2023, Al Jazeera’s Sudan correspondent Hiba Morgan was up early, preparing to head out on a reporting trip northwest of the capital Khartoum. There had been something in the air for months; a sense that a feud between two generals - one from the Sudanese army, and the other from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF - was about to come to a head. But nobody could have known the scale of the war that was about to unfold around them. In this episode, Nicola talks to Hiba, the last remaining international correspondent based in Khartoum. She describes the atrocities she has witnessed, the complexities of verifying information when the situation is unclear and changing rapidly, and the determination to continue reporting from inside Sudan. Presented by Nicola KellyProducer: Kevin Caners

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