@krobertslyer.bsky.social
Chair, Human Rights Program, Associate Professor, Central European University Vienna | Chair, Scientific Committee EU Agency for Fundamental Rights | National human rights institutions | academic freedom | transnational repression | parliaments & rights
UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state – The Guardian: ‘Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC said she had received threats via email and social media of dismemberment, rape and death, which have extended to her family in recent months.’
15.02.2025 06:22 — 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
Dark blue graphic with the text 'European Media Freedom Act' and 'Protecting media pluralism and independence in the EU'. A mobile phone icon with a megaphone is in the centre.
An important step to ensure independent and pluralistic media in the EU.
The new European Board for Media Services, a milestone of the European Media Freedom Act, begins its work supporting the independent functioning of media providers ↓
Academic freedom is under serious threat in the United States right now. Even setting aside important values and principles, this is wildly self-sabotaging. The best research usually results from contexts in which talented researchers have academic freedom protections. The US is hurting itself.
12.02.2025 09:02 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
"A quarter of the world’s countries have engaged in transnational repression – targeting political exiles abroad to silence dissent – in the past decade..."
Freedom House documented 1,219 incidents by 48 governments across 103 countries, in 2014-24.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Fundamental rights and the EU’s IT systems for migration and policing
What are the #FundamentalRights safeguards and implications of using the EU’s IT systems for migration and policing?
A new @eurightsagency.bsky.social information tool takes you through the issues.
Try it out: europa.eu/!bwy9pt
Very best of luck!
12.12.2024 20:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New bipartisan bill would deter SLAPPs — frivolous lawsuits targeting speech.
The Free Speech Protection Act would protect journalists and everyone who wants to speak freely.
EU gender-based survey: 1 in 3 women in the EU have experienced physical violence, sexual violence, or threats in their lifetime.
A third of women in the EU have experienced violence at home, at work or in public, finds the @eu-eurostat.extwitter.link eurostat.extwitter.link / @eurightsagency.bsky.social / EIGE EU gender-based violence survey.
For more headline figures across Europe see: europa.eu/!cfGdFT
Next Tuesday, 19 November, the @ourruleoflaw.bsky.social team and yours truly will be in Luxembourg to attend the hearing in Case C-769/22 (Commission v. Hungary - values of the Union), the case about the HU anti-LGBTI law where the COM relies directly on Union values.
Follow us for live coverage.
Can strengthened legal protections support human rights defenders in National Human Rights Institutions? I argue for improved immunity provisions in The International Journal of Human Rights. doi.org/10.1080/1364...
12.11.2024 19:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
