In the letter dated 25 August 2017 and signed by SERAP deputy director Timothy Adewale the organization expressed «serious concern that any monitoring of Nigerians on social media by the military authorities would directly violate the constitutionally and internationally
guaranteed rights to freedom of expression and privacy online.
Article ten
guarantees the right to freedom of expression.
«Apart from the Nigerian Constitution, article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and article 10 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights to which Nigeria is a state party
guarantee the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly.
Not exact matches
This can only be resolved once it is recognized that an institution may insist upon adherence
to etiquette in order
to further its mission, without these restrictions on the
freedom of expression at certain times and places necessarily constituting an abridgement
of right guaranteed by law.
Elsewhere, there is a puzzling assertion that businessmen, et al., should have the same
rights of expression that academic
freedom guarantees to faculty — but that assertion destroys the real and substantial teleological distinction between the work
of faculty (precisely
to deal with and attempt
to clarify and expand truth for its own sake) and other professions with quite different ends.
I am not afraid
of anyone or any institution
to use my constitutionally
guaranteed human
rights:
freedom of speech and
expression,
freedom of thought, and my
right to share and publish my peaceful demands.
Despite Fleet Street's vocal protestations that Eady J is placing undue weight on Art 8 (which
guarantees the
right to respect for private and family life)
of the European Convention on Human
Rights at the expense
of Art 10 (which protects the
right of freedom of expression) the reality is somewhat diff erent.
We have a
right to freedom of expression as
guaranteed in the Charter
of Rights and we're going
to use it.
This claim is particularly significant, says Doley, «Because Egypt's infringement
of the
rights of Al Jazeera and its employees
to freedom of expression (as
guaranteed under international law) plays such an important role in its mistreatment
of our Al Jazeera» sinvestment».
Equally, the
right of the public
to receive information is also protected by the constitutional
guarantee of freedom of expression.
Carrying more legal weight as a constitutional document than its predecessor, the Charter provides the
guaranteed protection
of important
rights such as
freedom of conscience, religion,
expression, and association; the democratic
right to vote; mobility
rights to enter and leave Canada as well as reside anywhere within Canada; legal
rights in criminal matters; equality
rights against discrimination; and language
rights.
Given the
right to freedom of expression guaranteed by Art 10
of the European Convention on Human
Rights, the result seemed a foregone conclusion.
They are arguing that the Act violates Section 2
of theCharter
of Rights and Freedoms, which
guarantees freedom of expression and
freedom of association, and in their case, by restricting how its members can collectively press politicians and others for changes
to laws and policies
to alleviate poverty.
This principle has been described as «one
of the hallmarks
of a democratic society» and it is linked
to the
right of freedom of expression guaranteed by s. 2 (b)
of the Canadian Charter
of Rights and Freedoms.
Those interested in European law or in
freedom of expression might want to take a look at documents from «The European Protection of Freedom of Expression: Some Recent Restrictive Trends», a recent seminar at the European Court of Human Rights, which was directed at the question: «Are recent developments in the Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights case - law undermining adequate guarantees for freedom of expression?
freedom of expression might want to take a look at documents from «The European Protection of Freedom of Expression: Some Recent Restrictive Trends», a recent seminar at the European Court of Human Rights, which was directed at the question: «Are recent developments in the Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights case - law undermining adequate guarantees for freedom of expressi
expression might want
to take a look at documents from «The European Protection
of Freedom of Expression: Some Recent Restrictive Trends», a recent seminar at the European Court of Human Rights, which was directed at the question: «Are recent developments in the Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights case - law undermining adequate guarantees for freedom of expression?
Freedom of Expression: Some Recent Restrictive Trends», a recent seminar at the European Court of Human Rights, which was directed at the question: «Are recent developments in the Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights case - law undermining adequate guarantees for freedom of expressi
Expression: Some Recent Restrictive Trends», a recent seminar at the European Court
of Human
Rights, which was directed at the question: «Are recent developments in the Article 10
of the European Convention on Human
Rights case - law undermining adequate
guarantees for
freedom of expression?
freedom of expressionexpression?»
Earle's lawyer, James Millar, says his client is entitled
to the
freedom of artistic
expression guaranteed by the Canadian Charter
of Rights and Freedoms, which, he says, trumps Pardy's complaint under the Human
Rights Code.