LIVE Project Seminar #6

Keynote Speaker: Toby Mendel

Toby Mendel is the founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Law and Democracy, an international human rights NGO which provides legal and capacity building expertise regarding foundational rights for democracy. From 1997-2009, he was Senior Director for Law at ARTICLE 19, an NGO focusing on freedom of expression and the right to information. He has collaborated extensively with inter-governmental actors working in these areas, as well as numerous governments and NGOs in countries all over the world. He is the author of a large number of articles, monographs and books on a range of freedom of expression, right to information and communication rights issues.