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Coming soon: New MOOC on International Standards on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalist for judicial actors
Are you a judge, prosecutor, lawyer, a representative of a judicial training institute, or a legal actor?
Do you want to learn more about freedom of expression, its legal frameworks, access to information, the safety of journalists, and challenges to free speech in the digital age?
UNESCO and the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford, will be soon be launching a new version of MOOC for judicial actors on the international and regional standards relating to freedom of expression, including press freedom, access to public information, safety of journalists and challenges created by the digital world.
Join over 25,500 judicial actors trained on these issues, by enrolling in this new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on regional and international standards of freedom of expression!
[Course Schedule]
The course will run from May 29th to June 30th, 2023, for a total of five weeks. There will be five online modules per week.
[Languages]
The course will be available in seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
[Target Audience]
The course targets legal professionals within the global judicial system (such as judiciary departments, public commissions, public defenders, electoral courts, human rights monitors, and legal services personnel), as well as journalists, scholars, and other professionals worldwide.
For more detailed information about the course, please visit:
As the UN agency in charge of promoting the safety of journalists and combatting impunity of attacks against them, UNESCO, together with partners around the world, offer courses to train journalists, judicial operators, UN staff, civil society and other actors to increase their understanding on international standards on freedom of expression, access to information and press freedom, the complexity of attacks against journalists and the evolving challenges to their safety. These courses are also capacity building resources to enable a safer environment for journalists to work. More information and resources about UNESCO’s work to protect journalists and freedom of expression, please visit:
