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Case Studies, Policy Documents and Recommendations, Reports and Analysis
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MedMedia
This 2015 study provides a global overview of the dynamics characterizing hate speech online and some of the measures that have been adopted to counteract and mitigate it, highlighting good practices that have emerged at the local and global levels. The publication offers a comprehensive analysis...
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January, 01 2015
Policy Documents and Recommendations, Reports and Analysis
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MedMedia
The modern newsroom is a challenging place. In the competitive world of media information flies around at breakneck speed. There is little time for checking facts and images or corroborating information and virtually no space for laid back discussions on the ethics of journalism. To find a way...
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November, 21 2016
International Standards, Legislation, Reports and Analysis
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Article 19
Egypt’s 2014 constitution provides guarantees for freedom of expression, and Egypt has ratified international treaties committing itself to international standards for free expression. But Egyptian law allows for many restrictions on free expression, some of which are not in conformity with those...
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November, 01 2014
International Standards, Policy Documents and Recommendations
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Article 19
In view of the forthcoming debate on the new draft constitution finalised by the Commissions of the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly in December 2012, ARTICLE 19 has developed this legal analysis aiming at supporting and encouraging discussions especially around the new constitutional...
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January, 31 2013
Legislation, Policy Documents and Recommendations
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Article 19
In this analysis, ARTICLE 19 finds that the Draft Law “relating to the regulation of the right to demonstrate in public spaces” of Egypt (Draft Law) overwhelmingly fails to comply with international standards on the right to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly. The net effect of...
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February, 23 2013
Policy Documents and Recommendations
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Article 19
In mid-2011, Moroccan voters approved a new Constitution that introduced, for the first time, a guarantee of the right of access to information held by public bodies. On 26 March 2013, consultations were opened on a Draft Law on the Right to Access Information (Draft Law), which aims to give effect...
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April, 01 2013
Policy Documents and Recommendations
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Article 19
In this brief, ARTICLE 19 offers comments and recommendations on the Third Draft Constitution of the Tunisian Republic (Draft Constitution), inasmuch as it affects the protection of the right to freedom of expression and information. ARTICLE 19 welcomes the changes that have been brought to this...
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May, 01 2013
Policy Documents and Recommendations
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Article 19
A 60-member "Constitutional Committee" will be established by the General National Congress to draft a new Constitution for Libya. In response to these efforts and to support the work of the future drafters, ARTICLE 19 has produced a comprehensive policy brief (available here in Arabic) outlining...
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July, 01 2013
Policy Documents and Recommendations
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Article 19
Between February 2012 and February 2013, ARTICLE 19 analysed the state of Internet freedom in Tunisia. In particular, the compatibility of the Tunisian legal framework governing the Internet against international and comparative standards for the protection of freedom of expression and the right to...
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July, 05 2013
Policy Documents and Recommendations, Reports and Analysis
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Article 19
In September 2013, ARTICLE 19 analysed the Draft Law on the right to access to information that is currently undergoing a process of public consultations. ARTICLE 19 welcomes the efforts of the Tunisian Government to protect the right to information through an Act of Parliament, which affords...
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September, 30 2013

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