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The country ranks fairly better than its Asian counterparts. However, its policies and laws are slowly turning the media landscape into a lethal minefield.
Media Freedom in the Indian Subcontinent
On World Press Freedom Day, we get Salil Tripathi, Chair of PEN International Writers in Prison Committee, to write about the reality that exists.
At Women's March Jakarta, a Thousand Reasons to Fight
Last weekend, people from different walks of life marched the streets of Jakarta to fight against every injustice, from violence against women to homophobia.
This Street Satirist Refuses to Let Efforts to Outlaw Criticism of the Government Silence Him
The Indonesian government just passed a law that can criminalize its critics. For Andrew Lumban Gaol, a street artist and activist, it's a new challenge.
Updates to Canada’s criminal law will legalize duels and permit pretending to practise witchcraft
The Criminal Code clean-up will delete outdated sections, and expand Canada’s ‘rape shield’ laws.
When is someone legally too drunk to consent?
Public outrage follows two acquittals in sexual assault cases where the complainants were intoxicated
Canadian Forces Member Arrested in Rehtaeh Parsons Wikipedia Complaint
After repeated edits to the Wikipedia page on Rehtaeh Parsons' suicide, an unnamed member of the Canadian Forces has been arrested near Halifax, where the Parsons family lives.
The Premier of Ontario May Have Tried to Buy Off One of Her Candidates
Kathleen Wynne has been implicated in a plot to give a cushy government job to a would-be candidate in order to get him out of the way.
80 Protesters Charged Using Quebec’s Controversial P-6 Bylaw Are Off the Hook
Protesters have been subject to mass arrest and expensive tickets for the last three years in Montreal. With the announcement that nearly 100 cases will be dismissed, there's a sliver of hope.
A Montreal Cop Killed a Five-Year-Old and Got Off Scot-Free
The officer was not responding to an emergency, and no one knows why he was driving more than twice the legal speed limit.