Article19 has a new website

“ARTICLE 19, the world’s leading defender of the right to freedom of expression and information unveils its new logo and website today. The organisation has created a more contemporary ‘look’ that will appeal to a wider global audience, reflect its international presence and regional offices, and showcase its growing impact in a digital world.

“Our old logo and website, 15 and 7 years old respectively, were developed before the internet’s exponential growth and the democratisation of information. Before the establishment of ARTICLE 19 regional offices, which have brought a distinctive and crucially important voice and perspective to ARTICLE 19 brand and work.  It was time for a change,” said Dr Agnes Callamard, ARTICLE 19 Executive Director.

“Over the last 12 months, through interviews, working groups and questionnaires, we have been asking ourselves, partners, donors and colleagues what is unique about ARTICLE 19? What do we bring to human rights and freedom of expression? What is ARTICLE 19’s global voice today and what should it be tomorrow?” continued Dr. Callamard.

“We are very excited about properly reflecting our international growth and impact with an active, passionate and dynamic new logo and website. The logo is designed to reflect two sides colliding, but from their collision beams a ray of light: the 19th Article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

ARTICLE 19 new website is built around three priorities: ‘Informing, Persuading and Enabling Change’.  Alongside ARTICLE 19’s long established production of policies and legal analysis, the website seeks to provide rapid and informal generation of content that creates and engages new audiences, thus enabling ARTICLE 19 to generate specific impact too.  The website feels like a series of micro-sites (or landing pages) around themes and regions. In particular, all ARTICLE 19 regional offices now have regional microsites to help them communicate directly with their local audiences.

To reflect ARTICLE 19’s regional and international impact, the website reaches out to non-English speakers through a number of landing page in different languages.  The website integrates social media and non-text communication, including video, audio, images, slide shows,  Finally, the website enables people to ask questions and encourage online discussion through a “Join the debate” page which also seeks to generate further advocacy for freedom of expression around the world.”

Source: Article 19 media release.
For further information see the Article 19 website

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