The difference between genocide and crimes against humanity
We regularly highlight comments that have made an impression on us. Antoon de Baets left an insightful response to Josie Appleton's discussion of memory laws in France.
The Future of Free Speech
Human Rights activist Aryeh Neier speaks about the future of free speech.
Why Rwanda and Libya need free speech – and media regulation.
Jerry Timmins describes a new report on media in two post-conflict societies, and argues that countries like Britain should do more to support them.
Why the EU’s “harmonisation machine” should stay away from history
Claus Leggewie and Horst Meier explain why memory laws are the wrong way for Europeans to remember and debate their difficult pasts.
France’s Armenian genocide law
In January 2012, the French Senate approved a law criminalising the denial of any genocide recognised by the state, writes Clementine de Montjoye.
Free speech in Turkey & the world – part two
Historian Halil Berktay discusses the denial by the Turkish state that the mass murders of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in 1915 constituted a genocide.
The harm of hate speech
Jeremy Waldron, professor of social and political theory at Oxford University, argues the case for legislation against hate speech
Claudia Roth on Holocaust denial
The co-chair of the German Green Party tells Free Speech Debate that fascist ideologies cannot be banned and must be confronted in a democratic way.
