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CEU Summer University Course on Communication Policy and Advocacy Starting on Sunday

July 4, 2014
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This Sunday marks the start of the CEU Summer University course ‘Advocacy, Activism and the Internet: Communication Policy for Social Change’. This year we welcome participants from 24 countries, with backgrounds in research, activism, and policy advocacy. We have put together an exciting schedule with lectures, workshops and policy lab sessions that focus on Internet law and policy, online freedom of expression, digital security and privacy, as well as communication rights and social change.

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Ranking Digital Rights project wins funding at Knight News Challenge!

June 26, 2014
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The Ranking Digital Rights project has been announced as one of 19 winners at the 2014 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge.

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Belarusian Rights Defender Released from Prison

June 26, 2014
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Miklós Haraszti, CMCS Fellow and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, welcomed the release of human rights defender Ales Bialteski. Bialetski is the founder of Viasna, an NGO that provided legal assistance to arrested and imprisoned journalists and activists in Belarus. He has received several human rights awards and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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Call for Papers: ARCHIVIA 14 Conference

June 18, 2014
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The ARCHIVIA 14 conference is organized in the framework of the EU funded project "CAPTCHA - Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives", run by CMCS and other partner organizations. It will gather representatives of both the national and European academic and political sphere and focus on the challenges online archiving is confronted with.

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CMCS researcher, Eva Bognar on Hungarian government’s crackdown on media freedom

June 16, 2014
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CMCS researcher, Eva Bognar spoke about the recent government crackdown on civil society and media freedom in Hungary in an Al Jazeera report. She commented on the new advertising tax that the Hungarian government is introducing and that can seriously endanger the financial survival of certain media outlets:

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