June 16, 2015
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti, who is also CMDS's Resident Fellow, raised alarm at the deterioration of the plight of several political prisoners ahead of the October presidential elections, and reiterated his calls to the immediate and unconditional release of all those imprisoned for the exercise of their political and other rights.
June 16, 2015
Joost van Beek, research fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) and Kate Coyer, director of the Civil Society and Technology Project at CMDS, presented preliminary research findings from their study on the digital content sharing and archiving practices of community media around Europe at the international conference “Radio Archives in European Community Media,” which took place in Halle, Germany, on June 5-6.
June 16, 2015
The Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) at SPP and Freedom House organized a panel discussion on May 21 to consider some of the conclusions of the recent Freedom House report, Freedom of the Press 2015. The discussion, which was moderated by Andras Petho, co-founder and editor of Direkt36, offered a range of perspectives from journalists and scholars on the globa

