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  1. Authors denounce Tesco over Thai defamation cases
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Nick Hornby and other leading British authors accuse Tesco of mounting a "disproportionate" legal response to criticism over its operations in Thailand.
  2. BBC High Court defence against Trafigura libel suit
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    This document was submitted to the UK's High Court by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in September 2009, as a Defence against a libel claim brought against them by the oil company Trafigura. A May 2009 BBC Newsnight feature suggested that 16 deaths and many other injuries were caused by the dumping in the Ivory Coast of a large quantity of toxic waste originating with Trafigura. A September 2009 UN report into the matter stated that 108,000 people were driven to seek medical attention. This Defence, which has never been previously published online, outlines in detail the evidence which the BBC believed justified its coverage. In December 2009 the BBC settled out of court amid reports that fighting the case could have cost as much as 3 million pounds. The BBC removed its original Newsnight footage and associated articles from its on-line archives. The detailed claims contained in this document were never aired publicly, and never had a chance to be tested in court.
  3. British cyber-activist sued by Thai fruit company
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders calls on the Thai pineapple processing company Natural Fruit and the Thai judicial authorities to abandon the three defamation cases still pending against British human rights defender Andy Hall
  4. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  5. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  6. How Defamation Law has Developed and is Applied in Canada
    Canadian Defamation Law is Noncompliant with International Law (Part Two of a Two Part Series)

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    This article was prepared for the Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA). Overall Defamation law in Canada is contrary to international law, in both design and practice.
    Also, Canada’s practice of its defamation law materially aggravates the noncompliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (eleven impugned rules and practices are described).

  7. IFJ and EFJ Condemn Arrest of Journalist for Labelling Belarus President
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation, the European Federation of Journalists, today condemned the arrest of Andrzey Poczobut, journalist from Hrodna, Belarus.
  8. Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
  9. Judicial authorities unearth more libel cases against national daily
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the judicial harassment of the French-language daily Al-Watan that has continued since its libel conviction on 23 December.
  10. Libel, Defamation, Contempt of Court and the Right of People to be Informed.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  11. Libel Law is dangerous
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
  12. MediaSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  13. Philippines slaps libel suit to silence broadcast journalist
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), in condemning the libel suit against ABS-CBN’s broadcast journalist Ted Failon and three members of his staff.
  14. Prison for press law violation in EU founding member
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Reporters Without Borders denounces as outrageous the sentencing of an Italian journalist to 14 months in prison on a libel conviction.
  15. US games company sues British blogger
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    In an internet defamation case that lawyers say could set an "extraordinary precedent", an American games company is suing a British blogger in the Australian courts.

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