As America commences its 250th anniversary celebration, free speech and press freedoms face unprecedented threats from campus censorship, social media content moderation and government pressure ...

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Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally. In ...

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All the countries that have ratified the “2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions” are called “Parties” and together form “the Conference of Parties”.

A tiny, wide-eyed girl sits at the heart of Sara’s body of work – one that the illustrator says is a “condensed, extremely distilled” version of herself. Quite a lot has changed since we last caught ...

Abstract: Emotions are fundamental to human communication and understanding them through facial expressions is essential for developing emotionally intelligent systems. Emotions play a pivotal role in ...

Abstract: Human faces contain rich semantic information that could hardly be described without a large vocabulary and complex sentence patterns. However, most existing text-to-image synthesis methods ...

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More than 50 senior members of the House of Lords write to Liz Kendall urging her to ensure key protections are implemented ...