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Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2017), 267 pp.
"This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislat
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Respecting Rights? Measuring the World’s Blasphemy Laws
Washington, DC: United States Commission of International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2017), ix, 138 pp.
"We have seen in our monitoring of religious freedom worldwide how blasphemy laws, in both theory and practice, harm individuals and societies. In commissioning the study found in the following pages, USCIRF sought to ascertain the prevalence of blasphemy laws worldwide and measure how the content o
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Selected Blasphemy Cases
Washington, DC: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2017), 18 pp.
Blasphemy, Defamation of Religions and Human Rights Law
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, volume 26, issue 4 (2017), pp. 517-545
"Blasphemy is a serious wrongdoing in all monotheistic world religions. Blasphemy prohibitions have been brought into being and enforced so as to protect the dominant religion specifically. Religions as such, however, are not protected by international human rights law. Human rights law protects and
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Blasphemy Law and Public Neutrality in Indonesia
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, volume 8, issue 2 (2017), pp. 57-62
"Indonesia has the potential for social conflict and violence due to blasphemy. Currently, Indonesia has a blasphemy law that has been in effect since 1965. The blasphemy law formed on political factors and tend to ignore the public neutrality. Recently due to a case of blasphemy by the Governor of
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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2016), xviii, 308 pp.
"Outbreaks of religious intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But in 'Hate Spin', Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate th
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"As Good as Dead": The Impact of the Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan
London: Amnesty International (2016), 66 pp.
"This report details how Pakistan’s blasphemy laws violate human rights, both in their substance and their application – whether this is violations of human rights by the state, or abuses of the laws by non-state actors. The laws do not meet human rights standards and lack essential safeguards t
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Anti-Blasphemy Offensives in the Digital Age: When Hardliners Take Over
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution (2016), 31 pp.
Egypt's Blasphemy Laws
Washington, DC: Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (2016), 5 pp.
Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.
"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed
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In the Name of God: Faith-Based Internet Censorship in Majority Muslim Countries
Religious Offence and Human Rights: The Implications of Defamation of Religions
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2014), lxii, 419 pp.
Prosecuted Beliefs: Indonesia's Blasphemy Laws
London: Amnesty International (2014), 50 pp.
Das indonesische Blasphemiegesetz: Hintergründe und Auswirkungen auf Politik und Gesellschaft im Demokratisierungsprozess Indonesiens
Südostasien, volume 30, issue 3 (2014), pp. 37-40
"Rezente Berichte über den Zustand von Religionsfreiheit und Pluralismus in Indonesien zeichnen häufig ein wenig schönes Bild. Gleichzeitig findet sich vielfach aber auch die Ansicht, Indonesien als ein Land zu sehen, das erfolgreich einen Demokratisierungsprozess in Gang setzen konnte und daher
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A Clash of Cultures: Hate Speech, Taboos, Blasphemy, and the Role of News Media
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 40 pp.
"The ability of individuals to openly speak their minds is a core principle not only of American journalism, but American democracy. Even when speech is insulting or disrespectful to others-speech that might run afoul of hate speech laws throughout Western Europe or be banned outright in much of the
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Blasphemy in a Secular State: Some Reflections
Mizan Law Review, volume 7, issue 1 (2013), pp. 29-48
"Anti-blasphemy laws have endured criticism in light of the modern, secular and democratic state system of our time. For example, Ethiopia’s criminal law provisions on blasphemous utterances, as well as on outrage to religious peace and feeling, have been maintained unaltered since they were enact
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