Freedom of expression is one of the main means of making human rights violations visible, as well as their perpetrators, planners and those who protect those responsible. For these reasons, those in ...

Don Heider (@donheider) is executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. In September 2025, a now-deleted social media post from U.S.

Members and partners of IFEX and the Global Forum for Media Development stress that cancelling RightsCon and thereby seriously disrupting UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day conference weakens an already ...