The Beacon for Freedom of Expression Project, and the conferences stemming from it in 2003 and 2004 are part of the general expression of the needs of the world to raise awareness about these issues and summon people to work at changes needed in their countries and in their institutions and organizations.
The 2004 Conference will address the following topics:
Themes:
- Focus on Africa: Tradition and Individual Freedom
- Circumventing Free Speech-New Forms of Censorship
- The Media and Freedom of Expression: Prometheus Embedded
- Hearing the Younger Generation
- Freedom of Expression – Future Challenges Libraries and Freedom of Expression
- Freedom of expression and copyright in a global perspective: focus Middle East
- New Project – “Censorship in Arab Countries: Past and Present”