Freedom of Expression: Resources

• Essential Principles
• History
• Netherlands
• Uganda
• China
• Resources
• Study Questions

Essential Principles

Article XIX. http://www.article19.org.

The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy. New Haven, CT: Yale Law School, 2008.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp.

>U.S. Bill of Rights, 1789–91.

>http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rights1.asp.

>Constitution of the United States, 1787.

>http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/usconst.asp.

U.S. Declaration of Independence, 1776. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp.

Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp.

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). http://www.cpj.org.

Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute. "Supreme Court Collection: Freedom of Speech."

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/topics/tog_freedom_of_speech.html. Contains links to: Schenck v. United States (1919); Yates v. United States (1957); Sullivan v. The New York Times (1964); Brandenberg v. Ohio (1969); The New York Times v. United States (1970).

Havel, Vaclav. The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1979.

Human Rights Web. "A Summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights," 1997. http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html.

International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX). http://www.ifex.org/.

Puddington, Arch. "Freedom of Expression After the ‘Cartoon Wars.'" New York: Freedom House, 2006. http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/fop/FOP2006cartoonessay.pdf.

Reporters Without Borders. http://www.rsf.org.

World Press Freedom Committee. http://www.wpfc.org.

Netherlands

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. "Faced with Radical Islam, Europe Is in Danger of Decay." American

>Enterprise Institute, November 2006.

http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25217/pub_detail.asp.

Bakker, Piet. "Dutch Media." University of Amsterdam, March 2005. http://users.fmg.uva.nl/pbakker/werk/dutchmedia.pdf.

Uganda

Amnesty International. "Uganda: Independent Media and the Right to Information Under Threat." News release, August 15, 2005.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR59/006/2005/en/dom-AFR590062005en.html.

Byrnes, Rita M., ed. Uganda: A Country Study. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, 1990. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ugtoc.html.

Gale, Thomas. "Encyclopedia of the Nations: Africa: Uganda."

http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Uganda.html.

Reporters Without Borders. "Uganda." In 2006 Annual Report. Paris: Reporters Without Borders, 2006. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17395&Valider=OK.

China

Esarey, Ashley. "Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China." Freedom at Issue Special Report, February 2006.

Nathan, Andrew. "Present at the Stagnation." Foreign Affairs (July–August 2006).

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060701fareviewessay85414/andrew-j-nathan/present-at-the-stagnation.html.

Overbye, Dennis. "Scientist at Work: Xu Liangying; Einstein's Man in Beijing: A Rebel With a Cause." New York Times, August 22, 2006.

Worden, Robert L., Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan, eds. China: A Country Study. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, 1987. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cntoc.html.