Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 3/2022

Freedom of expression

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Press freedom

Ghanaian journalists face a crackdown on free speech

Press freedom in Ghana is taking a step backwards, as journalists are being prosecuted under the criminal code

Maria Ressa with Rappler merchandise at the Nobel ceremony in Oslo in December 2021.
Journalism

Brave Filipina fighting for the factual truth

The independent website Rappler has become an indispensable source of information in the Philippines

Civil liberties

Duterte’s dreadful human-rights record

Human-rights abuses and extrajudicial killings have become common in the Philippines

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Zimbabwean journalist Hopwell Chin’ono in August 2020: He was arrested several times being charged with “communicating falsehoods”.
Prison conditions

D+C correspondent locked up in Zimbabwean prison

Jeffrey Moyo endured three weeks in Zimbabwean jails under horrifying conditions

Protesters demand immediate release of journalist Rozina Islam in Bangladesh, 2021.
Freedom of the press

Hundreds of journalists imprisoned

According to Reporters Without Borders, more media workers than ever before are in prison because of their work

US Senator Elizabeth Warren is a critic of internet giants – would she have more than 3.3 million Facebook followers if she praised them instead?
Public discourse

Giving voice to the voiceless

Corporate interests distort public discourse, including on social-media platforms

In January 2022, rising fuel prices sparked protests in Kazakhstan.
Hintergrund

The internet is crucial

Hugh Williamson of Human Rights Watch assesses the state of press freedom in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Ghanya Al-Naqeb, a researcher from Yemen.
Philipp Schwartz Initiative

Safety and new jobs for displaced scholars

The Philipp Schwartz Initiative helps at-risk researchers to come to Germany

Screenshot homepage TheWire.in
Online news portals

Need for government advertising makes media vulnerable

Independent news websites have become indispensable in India

Protestors demanding freedom for Umar Khalid in Kolkata in early 2021.
Totalitarian aspirations

Modi opponents are called anti-national

How Hindu supremacists are spreading hate and distorting public discourse in India

Maria Ressa, the journalist from the Philippines, won the 2021 Nobel Prize for her work.
Free speech

Protecting freedom of expression is a permanent challenge

Quality media deserve appreciation because only they enable people to form and express informed opinions

Peter Thiel (centre) with Donald Trump and Tim Cook of Apple at the White House in 2016.
Democracy

Facebook investor: democracy and freedom are incompatible

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is more dangerous than an FT portrait admits