New Challenges to Freedom of Expression

The Center for Media and Communication Studies and the Open Society Archives at CEU cordially invite you to a public lecture

New challenges to freedom of expression 

By Frank La Rue

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Monday April 4th 2011, 5:30 PM

Open Society Archives, Arany J. u. 32., Budapest

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Frank La Rue

Mr La Rue is the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.  He has worked on human rights for the past 25 years.  He is the founder of the Centre for Legal Action for Human Rights (CALDH), both in Washington DC and Guatemala, which became the first Guatemalan NGO to bring cases of human rights violations to the Inter-American System.  CALDH was also the first Guatemalan NGO to promote economic, social and cultural rights.  Mr. La Rue also brought the first genocide case against the military dictatorship in Guatemala.  As a human rights activist, his name was presented to the Nobel Peace Prize committee in 2004. Mr. La Rue has previously served as a Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights in Guatemala, as a Human Rights Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala and as a consultant to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.  He is President of Instituto Demos in Guatemala City. La Rue holds a BA in Legal and Social Sciences from the University of San Carlos, Guatemala and a postgraduate degree in U.S. foreign policy from Johns Hopkins University.