staging similar protests, the most miller treat you into his impulse to compulsory conscription laws, men between the ages of 18 and 35. and when an aged 18 to 27 can be cooled up to serve military rule as have been struggling to contain rebellions opt over throwing a civilian government in 2021. because i have become the 1st country into decades to retain the asian top, the team had been celebrating the 31 victory of chosen with an open top of the bus parade. the cutoff stayed and beaten throughout this toilets far as, ma'am was at least al stadium a just over a year ago, argentina we're lifting the world have at least sales stadium. the venue now the setting for asian football's biggest game expectations were high amongst both guitar. e and jordanian sam postcards are entered this match as defending champions . well, jordan were in a major finals for the 1st time after

a nervous hunt for the opening goal were both teams had their chances. it was the house who took control after 20 minutes. one on the fee was brought down in the tennessee bar for the past the keeper to make it one. now the celebration was certainly unique. pull the plane card edited shouldn't have to send a message to his wife. jordan pushed hard in the 2nd half playing the kind of football, but over whelmed south korea. then in 68 minutes, yes, on, on 9 minutes, meet at $11.00. minutes later the video assistant directory intervenes and patters favor. they rewarded a 2nd penalty. at each step that make it to $172.00, making determinant thoughts for another vehicle in stoppage time. and another penalty fees. patrick c to are become the 1st countries retain the aging cap

into decades to select for the list. what helps municipal sourcing? this is the 1st letter of my wife's name because my wife is a great, and this was a 1st time watching me playing a stadium. that's why i celebrated the way i did. so once again, congratulations to everyone on the asian company staining don't. after failing to win a match in front of their home, white show creepy, near 2019 comp. title was just the beginning of their story. next, when a team is qualifying for the 26 virus out there as they feel safe as well. that's also may tell them the cry, talk to l just sarah is coming out next to say with us the 60 years since its foundation, the munich security conference will see lead is

a symbol to debate. local security challenges with conflict in the middle east spreading and the rest, the ukraine war continuing. what does the future international, or does it look like? getting live updates on out to 0. the it is a cornerstone of democracy. central to living in an open and fast society. the ability to say what you think to believe what you want to discuss, protest, publish, and demand a better world on 5 domains of holding the powerful to account. as the united nation special raffle to freedom of expression and opinion, it is irene cons to all to uphold this fundamental human rights. the 1st woman pointed to the position and the veteran campaign for human rights. cons

qualifications include subbing for almost a decade at the turn of the century. a secretary general of amnesty international as was raged in iraq and afghanistan. she led to campaign to shut down the united states, guantanamo by detention facility that helped suspect it, and to be competent. many without charged your trial con, for to end violence against women and launched. amnesty is the mon dignity campaign against human rights abuses that the pulverized people and keep them cool across the globe. now, even in advance, democracies, the freedom of expression and opinion is under attack. it was continue to rage, repressive regime seem only to grow stronger, and journalists become target censorship and intimidation in keeping the free flow of information. in recognition of these challenges,

the united nations established the special russell to mandate in 1993 to promote and protect the right to speak freely without fear of retaliation. but who will heave it's cold? and how relevant is the united nations itself in a violent? well, i read con the un special wrathful to freedom of expression and opinion. talks to elder 0, the hiring. com. thank you for talking to. thank you for giving me the opportunity. it occurred to me, preparing this inconvenience, that your brief is so broad. it covers what people should be free to say to sink, to believe in everything from mature democracies to repressive regimes. 2 countries at war to the internet, the media, gender issues, how own us do you stay on top of it? you must be pulled in a 100 different directions at once. what a freedom of opinion and expression, i call it the bridging, right?

because the bridge is full on the rights that we enjoy. whether it's the rector dictation, whether it's the right default, whether it's the right to environment, you need information, access to information. you need to be able to express you of using your to be able to participate in decisions that affect your life. so it is indeed a broad right. but of course, as an individual or monday total, i'd have to prioritize and i have to prioritize on key issues. fundamental issues like a democratic elections like me to freedom and safety of journalist like the rights of women, to speak free. i'm the 1st woman to hold this monday to us. so these are the key issues of today. if see what it boils down to. ones that have a central purpose, essentially ingredient, what would it be your job? my job is to monitor report adroit and listen to people's voices and carry even to member states of the u. n. and 2 other key stakeholders

about the importance of freedom of expression for development, democracy and human dignity. let's start here in bundle dish. this is your country, but it's where you live most of the time. it's just come through an election. harper, in the election to, to really only one side to pop the government side, the opposition boy called to do the book b and p saying that thousands, they say tens of thousands of the supporters, including local leaders, ocoee and joe. the government seems here to whittle down democracy into something like a piece of theatre. i know the very convincing piece of theatre that is troubling for you. well, it's very, very painful. you know, i was a teenager here in 1971 during the war. and i saw people were fighting for freedom of ordinary people who made the lives on the line. and there was no questionnaire that we were fighting for freedom to see today. people's freedom being stifled

organ this way is extremely painful or very distressed for uh, for the democracy here. and it's not only the polls, you know, the polls are combination of a process. you talked about what was very visible, what is less miserable, but deeply troubling to democracy is the institutional capture from the judiciary. no enforcement to this human rights and the institutions in the country to other institutions. all of that coming in the control of the ruling party, ordinary people, this voices are not being heard. media is being suppressed. barry was the digital security act. but now there is a cyber security us, which is just another name for the same legislation that has to freedom of expression and look up john list. some of them have died in prison. so it's a very oppressive environment in which we have lived there. so what, so that out there often will talk or see is 11 party state is another. do you go that from what i am very troubled by what i call the back sliding of emerging

democracies. and that is happening here. also retiring and some is rising to my knowledge experience around the world shows that if you want to sustain development, then you must have space for debate for diverse sources of information for discussion. and worries me very much that's being development in this country. but can it be sustained in this request of environment? well, let's, let's, let's talk about an issue that brings together repression and freedom of expression in this country. and that is the case of double nobel prize winner mohammed eunice, known as the banker to the pool. ah, he's currently sentenced. he has a jail sentence of his head. he's out of bell. you've been pretty closely following that case. he was there for the verdict. quoted, a travesty of justice. indeed. and it is um,

given that the number of for labor law evaluations that have taken place and actually the norm is health and safety problems, try that to labor or space every day in factories. the way in which big business is exploiting labor or given all that. it is amazing that the government chooses to pursue this case against professor universe on a technical issue. that from what i can see from my discussions with his lawyer and other lawyers, i would not spend in a free, independent uh, traditional system, something that feels seems rather like a personal vendetta between sex. i see that well, mysterious professor, yours has been verified by the prime minister as the blood sucker of the poor. and he has been up cause many names. there is, of course, a long history going back to the time when he wanted to enter politics,

but need to fill in this immediately decided not to that. so it goes back more than a decade and some, yes, some people do say that there is a sense sofa vendetta here, but i think it's very, very dangerous. i, i've, and if there's another message that's going out to civil society, to anyone who dares to stand up, speak out that if this can happen to professor eunice what can happen to others, right. $170.00 global thinkers wrote 2 checks. i've seen there in august demanding that what they said was, he's continuous traditional harassment. stop among them. us sector of state, former hillary clinton, richard branson, the virgin found a ball knows a singer. is she interested to see to what people like that think? well, the prime minister and her kaufman ministers, or we speak about the image of the country, they talk about others tonisha in that image. i think in this particular case,

the technician might be, is happening by them themselves. a, well, let's turn now to another very high profile in case that perhaps an unusual chink of light. the case of i hope you will forgive me for saying so your friend, i believe she's your friend murray. the rest of the philippines, who has finally been acquitted on charges of tax evasion, she to hound it by the courts. it took a change of government in the philippines, didn't i think what that indicates uh several things. one is uh, the importance of joining us in today's world and meet if a freedom she's a nobel peace prize winner to secondly, the realization by the country, by the industry of the country that you have to uphold the room to fiddle at the end of the day throwing a bill is absolutely essential, and in democracies for the survival. and thirdly, the political realization of the government of the day that hound maria theresa, will not take them anywhere. it's likely only to create more problems,

and i'm glad that they have broken up the victory ality, and that, that to the gods have upheld the wonderful and human rights. no such luck in russia . the another case that used to be not spoken about that to alexi, and i've only the opposition leader who remains resolute. se locked up somewhere in deep siberia, and frankly, no chance, no obvious. johnson's not change, unfortunately, his case is getting more and more complicated now because he's all the charges have been brought against him. his imprisonment has been lengthened. now he's up in the attic of goes to the arctic circle and it's a very sad situation. and of course, overall in russia there is no independent media. there is no room for any criticism, any descent. and it is indeed a very, very difficult situation there. um, i have written to the russian government, i think he continued to push rushes, amend the state of the united nations, russia as an observer in the human rights council. it has obligations and we will

keep pushing for, for justice, for it for an of only to get any response. yes, i do. sometimes i do sometimes on twitter from the permanent representative of geneva, who calls what we are saying relies on my own said to him as if we are lying, the facts and ox. great. just let us in the country that is come and see what's happening. and i have not got a reply from him on, on that we're living 3. what looks rather grimly, i couldn't, new age of conflict was in ukraine in europe. the threats of war and the red sea in the south china sea, taiwan, me and my suit. and of course, israel come us on the a pulling destruction of guys. and that more especially in gauze right now and the occupied westbank, but west bank looks increasingly like a sort of green light to attack,

to take out the voices of the media during this. and why is that so important? it will. well, i think just play a absolutely critical role at all times, sucking in the middle of conflict as important as health workers or other emergency workers because they are bringing the information to the load they are holding the truth. they're holding to account the parties to the conflict in a way through their information. and therefore they're seen as a threat of civility, a journalist for civilians they need protection. but in my view, they're a particular kind of civilian in a war situation. they can drop their job and, and cross the border and go away the crowd to seek refuge as they have to be there . and therefore, they need more protection under international humanitarian law than they are receiving right now. and parties. member parties to the conference, particularly governments when, when states the fighting, the war such as these really defense force have to take extra care which they are

not. in fact, there are allegations that just been targeted deliberately targeted. i just need jordan. this is, you know, that's, have taken a big hit here. i've written to these really governments. i'm not sure whether it would bother to answer me. but i do want and i have called on the prosecutor of international criminal court to pay particular attention to the plight of justice. but let me add one of the point to king john list is of course the fosters most of us, the crew of his way of fencing speech and cheering speech. but there are other new forms for freshmen that are coming now. and one is what i call the webinar ization of the law against youngest. and we see that in this country, for example, with the cyber security low with other kinds of harassment tax laws against murray arrests, as you pointed out. so jealous of being hit in various ways,

the defamation criminal life is used again and me to choose speech. it shows actually help hoffer what a popular role you play. as a journalist, you are holding to account to a speaking truth to power, show what it, what is another aspect that i want to bring up about the way that was a waged. and the way that was affect societies. not just the silencing of the speak, the speech and, and the ability of doing this to report. but the silent single cultural society very so insidious that it reduces a society to its needs. i'm talking about cause that again because it's a prime example, i'm talking about the wiping out of the office of writers of poets, of performance of cultural heritage, the sorts of things by which people judge their identity. yes, indeed, that is the big tragedy of casa, and as you may know, i and my fellows, special rapid tours have actually called for an investigation. in the genocide,

we believe this is genocide, not just cultural genocide, but actually genocide, wiping out a people the correct of displacement of uprooting people, pushing them out. it's not just people feeling conflict. there is deliberate, uh, sort of push to get people out to grab the land. so this is a, a classic case of colonial occupation that is taking place in gauze. and along with that, of course, the culture, the history, the language, the conditions are, are, are approved. we have seen that with their willingness and more. we now see that happening in gaza. and that is where i feel the hypocrisy of those who champion human rights have to be brought to light as well. along with those who commit human rights violations. many of those human rights tracking are silent for standing on the sidelines. we're why they've got that as being the guys ends up being of

detroit. but that's a very bold statement. you believe that this is genocide, all the way to the you and sit behind that believe? well, we special rapid tours i, there's a special rep, a tour on the occupied territories and others have called it to genocide into making. we haven't been on the ground up. obviously, evidence between you're seeing is uh, evidence collected by john this and others, the needs to be a full investigation. let's move on to another area that fits squarely within your brief no less solely than the others did. you have a focus on the protection of women's rights, of course, but again, there is an emerging battlefield, isn't it? in terms of changing notions of gender watching the even means and how much of your time is taken up protecting the rights of gender? well, you know, as i said, i'm the 1st woman to hold this mandate. and one of the 1st things i did was to look

at whether there had been any reports in the u. n. system about freedom of expression from the perspective of jen during that discolored, there happened be one of my 1st report. the un general assembly was about gender equality and freedom of expression. and i define gender not only as women and goals, but also all the genders attribute you to white people and discovered that if you put agenda lens, freedom of expression seems genuine, neutral. but if you put on a gen the lens, then censorship for women doesn't only come to know very often, very often it does not come to know. it comes from cultural custom tradition and many other social norms that cultural norms that stopped women from saying something doing something and so on. look at the wrong look at what has happened in iran, in the context of women's heads off. what a woman wears becomes a political issue, becomes a national security issue,

a problem and express themselves through how to dress, how to speak with a go participation in elections. my research has shown that women politicians tend to face a higher level of smear campaigns. attacks, especially now with digital technology, because the women attacks against them. sexualize we especially rap a tours, have faced some of the attacks as well. what about the into that? another field, which is also foss, changing a frontier long which me issues of the expression all have long being drawn and battled over. but now, artificial intelligence brings an entirely new dimension to the game in which very often expression for even opinion is going to be generated by machines. how with you and your role adapt to that? well, digital technology has, has changed. i think the entire landscape for freedom of expression,

there is no aspect of freedom of expression that you can talk about today when digital technology just knock payroll. but let's 1st begin with the in the calling with regard to access to internet. many parts of the world do not have universal access. there is no universal access and especially those who need to have access to information like again, women, goals, minority communities and others are the ones that suffer most. uh so, and they are also the groups are attacked and there's more hate speech against those categories of people, for instance, on the online. and yet there's religion to most of the internet to be literate. digital have been digital limited to even have access to the internet is missing. and then of course you have, so for me just you have big companies that are dominating this area. and where of commercial interest r i have a dominate over the values of human rights. we've seen that with this information,

for example, including inductions or in other fields. it's a very, very complex area. 8. but i caution governments with how to regulate that area because governments have a vested interest from my perspective, it's very and in many governments i find are very interested in restricting the internet to their interest, restricting critical speech against them. i believe that this information, which is a major problem now is you know, this information, the best way of addressing this information is actually 2 fact checking and independent media is your best fact check. governments need to, to be robustly putting out factually correct information. the government's need to stop spreading this information. so on the one hand, digital technology has empowered people. we have access to more sources of

information than other create a new in the qualities for those who cannot access the digital technology. and it says, create a new challenges and threats, which i think governments in others, not really knowing how to control a speech, how to ensure that hate speech is prohibited and removed. but at the same time, people are free to exchange diverse. i guess it's a big, correct. we're in the now 2024. when all of the stuff is going to be absolute, the prime importance when the flow of this information, i'll google it, will reach its historic kind of the center a year of elections unprecedented across the globe hall for the world's population . in 65 countries move that in a number of those countries. again, here in the event that democracy will be tested almost the breaking point. now, it's a broad question, but let me ask you, off the top of your head,

which countries you will be particularly watching play. see this here? well, for me, uh, the biggest threat to freedom of expression today is the back sliding of democracies. and therefore, i want to focus on my own country because bangladesh, but india, mexico, uh, comes up in june. and the us in november for me, those 3 countries, how they handle their elections, how freedom of expression emerges, or is restricted in those countries, i think will determine the flow of or the respect for this, right? but can bring a government, why those to 900000000, but you go to the polls in the country that the single thing and india, uh, as well as largest democracy in us is the, was over this democracy in mexico. plays it enormously important. role in that region as having been the lead or on many human rights issues internationally,

for example, on the gender issue. but internally, it has had a populist regime, which has chosen to suppress a freedom of expression chosen to attack journalist and mexico without being a country of conflict is one of the countries with the highest number of kings of doing this every year. so these 3 countries for me are kind of in the magic of the problem. we happened to was the day with freedom of expression, absolutely essential for democracy and yet at risk to feel that by the end of this year, democracy will have survived one out of the question mark hanging over it globally with them they become more severe. well, i think the demo, so we need to think of the demo, the people letting you go back, you know, the greek times rick civilization and how democracy started there. how does evolved over the centuries a 1000000? yeah, in fact,

i think democracy lives in the hawks of people in this country. my own country i've seen for people who have understood the value of their vote in a way in which a lot of fox educated electra doesn't understand. so i believe people have a demand for freedom that was not cut off to be suppressed by any government at the end of the day in the or the inevitable charge that would be leveled. the 2 in some quarters is that you know, you can shout as loudly as you like about human rights. but in places where human rights really matter and with change is most needed. very often, those are places that have simply gone too far beyond the reach of un style norms and expectations that they're just not going to be listening to and you can't make them this. how do you go about ensuring that what you do about this?

i think it is about 1st before uh, understanding that people have a task for justice and human rights are the, are a manifestation of justice. i think human rights have proven itself over the centuries to be not just the right thing. the wise thing to do. you cannot sustain development without transform ation is change and you cannot bring about trends formation or change to create just equal societies without respect for human rights . think international solidarity is what we need. we need much more international solidarity among people from tanksley. here. the internet has created an enormous opportunity. so i'm actually optimist just despite everything that i've had so far, i'm optimistic about the future hiring call you and special wrap up the freedom of expression and opinion. a wonderful discussion. thank you. go to the,

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