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Freedom of Speech

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, provides, in Article 19, that:

Everyone has the right to opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Technically the Declaration is a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly rather than a treaty and so it is not legally binding in its entirety, on members of the UN, and, while some of its provisions are considered to form part of customary international law, there is dispute as to precisely which provisions do so. Freedom of speech is granted unambiguous protection in international law by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which is binding on around 150 nations. Article 19 provides that:

1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.

2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.

3. The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:

(a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;

(b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals.

The right is further qualified by Article 20 which prohibits war propaganda, incitement to violence and certain forms of hate speech. In adopting the Covenant the Republic of Ireland, Italy and Luxembourg insisted on reservations to Article 19 in so far as it might be held to affect their systems of regulating and licensing broadcasting ^[1]. A number of state parties also have official reservations to Article 20.

  Wow it's like been forever since I have posted on my blog--that is other than putting up those wierd videos....but the fact of the matter is I HAVENT POSTED IN LIKE FOREVER. Well the reason is SCHOOL....ah the word that traumatizes little forurth graders and eleventh graders alike.....yep. So I am now in eleventh grade and still go to the french school. We are 24 people in our class. It is the largest the 1ere S has EVER been in the HISTORY of the LAC.
So I have school every afternoon except wednesday.
Last week I got to meet Mary Beth b4 she flew to Dakar, and I got to see the Hoovers again( Mr Hoover has driven the distance from Conakry to Kankan 8 times.....isnt that like 700x8= 5600 kms in LESS THAN 2 MONTHS!!!)

Well I got a prehistoric cell phone...yay...so thats nice as I can call my folks to tell them that i'll be late or something like that.

Oh and perhaps we shall have internet at home soon.YAY

My Avalon Poster

Well first of all I dont know if I should be posting anymore cause I dont know if anyone is reading my blog anymore.....Well I have decided to put a scan of a poster that my uncle got signed for me.

joel

Yay now you can embed videos on this thing!!!!Joel