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This post-election phase presents an important window of opportunity for reforming the media landscape in Tunisia
By Kamel Labidi
Few outside Tunisia would have predicted that a low profile constitutional law professor would win the Tunisian Presidential elections with a landslide victory this...
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December, 12 2019
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MENA Media Law Reform
The window of opportunity to implement true reforms, guaranteed by explicit laws and grounded in practice, is now.
By Adnane Bouchaib
In July 2016, when Mohamed Tamalt, an independent journalist was sentenced to two years in prison, for defaming the President of Algeria and public institutions, the...
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November, 21 2019
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MENA Media Law Reform
Although much of the Middle East and North Africa has seen a marked shift over the past years toward unstable authoritarianism and violent conflict following the region’s popular uprisings, significant gains have however been achieved since 2011.
Many of these gains have been driven by media...
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February, 08 2018
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This report by Thomas Ebbs, Director of Research with Lawyers for Justice in Libya, is analyzing the tensions between laws pertaining to freedom of expression, political actors and the judiciary practice in Libya.
Following the 2011 uprisings, new constitutional and legal guarantees for freedom of...
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February, 08 2018
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MENA Media Law Reform
This report by Adnane Bouchaib, a lawyer with Bouchaib Law Firm in Algiers, is analyzing the tensions between laws pertaining to freedom of expression, political actors and the judiciary practice in Algeria.
Following the 2011 uprisings, new constitutional and legal guarantees for freedom of...
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February, 08 2018
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MENA Media Law Reform
This report by Mustapha Ben Letaief, a professor at the Law Faculty at the University of Tunis El Manar, is analyzing the tensions between laws pertaining to freedom of expression, political actors and the judiciary practice in Tunisia.
Following the 2011 uprisings, new constitutional and legal...
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February, 08 2018
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MENA Media Law Reform
This report by Abdelaziz Nouaydi, university professor and lawyer at the Rabat Bar, is analyzing the tensions between laws pertaining to freedom of expression, political actors and the judiciary practice in Morocco.
Following the 2011 uprisings, new constitutional and legal guarantees for freedom...
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February, 08 2018
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MENA Media Law Reform
A regional workshop on the right to information held in Beirut from 8-9 June 2017, bringing together participants from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen, and hosted by Social Media Exchange, the Centre for Law and Democracy and International Media Support, has agreed to...
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June, 16 2017
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MENA Media Law Reform
Joint action key to media reform: The case of Tunisia. Essay by Kamel Labidi, journalist, former Chair of the National Commission for Information and Communication Reform, and Co-founder of the Civilian Coalition for the Defense of Freedom of Expression.
Central argument is that: The fears and...
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September, 05 2013
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MENA Media Law Reform
Press laws and media freedom: Needed Reforms. Essay by Toby Mendel, Executive Director, Centre for Law and Democracy
Central argument: Media freedom is a right that belongs not only to the media but also directly to the public. In other words, it is in the wider public interest to have a free media...
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September, 05 2013