{"id":26360,"date":"2025-04-21T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/?p=26360"},"modified":"2025-04-23T22:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:01:13","slug":"transatlantic-dialogues-to-address-attacks-on-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/2025\/04\/transatlantic-dialogues-to-address-attacks-on-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Dialogues to address attacks on free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Network for Values<\/strong> (PNfV) returns with the <strong>Transatlantic Dialogues<\/strong> and next Friday, April 25, will address a very topical issue: \u201c Free Speech under Threat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In this online event we will talk with two personalities who have been victims of persecution for expressing their thoughts: <strong>P\u00e4ivi R\u00e4s\u00e4nen<\/strong>, member of the Parliament of Finland, and <strong>Rodrigo Iv\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s<\/strong>, president of the <strong>National Front for the Family<\/strong>, in Mexico, and vice-president of the Board of Directors of PNfV. We are also joined by <strong>Paul Coleman<\/strong>, executive director of <strong>ADF International<\/strong>, an organization that provides legal advice to victims of human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>In many countries, those who promote and defend fundamental values often experience limitations to freely express their convictions. Such restrictions are imposed by a &#8220;cancel culture\u201d that spreads widely, and becomes \u201cnormative\u201d in some social networks and communication vehicles; and sometimes they are even imposed by governments, parliaments and courts, under the pretext of combating fake news or alleged \u201chate speech\u201d. The freedom to peacefully and respectfully express one&#8217;s convictions is a fundamental right that must be respected and guaranteed by the state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P\u00e4ivi R\u00e4s\u00e4nen<\/strong>, was legally prosecuted for quoting the Bible when expressing her perspective on marriage and family; and <strong>Rodrigo Iv\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s<\/strong> was sentenced by a Mexican State body to a process of \u201cre-education\u201d for having affirmed the biological truth of a male parliamentarian claiming to be a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Although freedom of expression is recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is explicitly protected by most constitutions of Western nations, cases such as these multiply year after year.<\/p>\n<p>The April <strong>Transatlantic Dialogue<\/strong> will take place next Friday, <strong>April 25<\/strong>, at the following times, depending on the region you are in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>07:00 US-Pacific<\/li>\n<li>08:00 US-Mountain, Mexico City, Guatemala, San Salvador<\/li>\n<li>09:00 US-Central, Bogota, Lima, Panama<\/li>\n<li>10:00 US-EST, Asuncion, Santiago, Santo Domingo<\/li>\n<li>11:00 Bras\u00edlia, Buenos Aires, Montevideo<\/li>\n<li>16:00 CET, Brussels, Paris, Budapest, Madrid, Maputo, Rome, Warsaw<\/li>\n<li>17:00 Finland, Kampala, Nairobi, Cairo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To participate please contact: <span style=\"color: #007ba6;\">office@politicalnetworkforvalues.org<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Network for Values (PNfV) returns with the Transatlantic Dialogues and next Friday, April 25, will address a very topical issue: \u201c Free Speech under Threat\u201d. In this online event we will talk with two personalities who have been victims of persecution for expressing their thoughts: P\u00e4ivi R\u00e4s\u00e4nen, member of the Parliament of Finland, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26361,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360\/revisions\/26361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}