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Reports and Analysis
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IMS (International Media Support)
This study focuses on the Syrian independent exile media (SEM) organisations and institutions that have developed since the 2011 uprising. These media emerged and developed amid a war of unprecedented scope and complexity; a war that has taken a heavy toll on Syria’s civilians and displaced a huge...
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June, 01 2021
Case Studies, Reports and Analysis
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IMS (International Media Support)
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, amid collapsing revenues and a rising torrent of online misinformation and gender-based hate speech, States have a human rights-based obligation to ensure the survival of public interest media, most urgently through subsidies that can be funded by proper taxation of...
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June, 01 2021
General Resources, Reports and Analysis
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MENA Media Law Reform
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
Legislation, Reports and Analysis
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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
Legislation, Reports and Analysis
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Article 19
The Government of Morocco has undertaken two important initiatives in its efforts to improve transparency and governance in the Kingdom: The adoption of the Draft Law Regarding the Right to Access Information (the Draft Law) and the joining of the Open Government Partnership. Both of these...
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November, 21 2017
General Resources, Legislation, Policy Documents and Recommendations, Reports and Analysis
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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
General Resources, Legislation, Policy Documents and Recommendations, Reports and Analysis
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MENA Media Law Reform
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
General Resources, Legislation, Policy Documents and Recommendations, Reports and Analysis
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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
General Resources, Legislation, Policy Documents and Recommendations
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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
Legislation, Policy Documents and Recommendations, Reports and Analysis
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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...
Posted on
February, 08 2018

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