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Friday, 06 November 2020


** "The US elections give the country the moral authority to challenge authoritarian regimes"
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Photo: Jscott1000, CC BY-SA 4.0

As the counting, the name-calling and the legal threats continue in the US elections and we await a decision on whether the White House will be red, blue or some intermediate shade of pink, our CEO focuses on the importance of democratic process in her weekly blog ([link removed]) .
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** Forced motherhood is an infringement on free expression
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Since the passing of Roe v Wade in the Supreme Court in 1973, abortion has been enshrined in law in the USA. Some states have restrictions ([link removed]) on access ([link removed]) to abortion, but the ruling that it is a legal right has remained in place.

The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September, and her replacement by Amy Coney Barrett, has fuelled the fire of panic in women that this right could soon be snatched away, writes Orna Herr ([link removed]) .



** Media freedom under attack in
Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus
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Photo: Максим Шикунец

Harassment, round-ups, arrests and imprisonment have become routine for journalists working in Belarus in the nearly three months since the presidential elections on 9 August. Add to that a lack of internet access and it becomes clear that those covering the protests in the country since Alexander Lukashenko won a widely contested fifth term as president have been working in incredibly difficult conditions. Volha Siakhovich writes from the streets of Minsk ([link removed])

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Index on Censorship associate editor Mark Frary joined Justice for Journalists Foundation director Maria Ordzhonikidze and Russian blogger Alexander Pichugin on a Safe Havens Freedom Talk organised by Malmö's Museum of Movement to discuss media freedom around the world during the Covid crisis. They discussed the launch of a joint report ([link removed]) covering incidents during the last seven months and why media freedom is so important in times of crisis. Watch the talk here ([link removed]) .

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