Defamation
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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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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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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Thursday, November 21, 2019
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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Thursday, February 8, 2018
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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Thursday, February 8, 2018
Pushing norms and standards in politics, conflict and media to new extremes, leaders in every region of the world in 2016 consolidated and expanded their powers at the expense of freedom and democracy. From armed conflict and forced migration to the spread of misinformation and the rise of right-...
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Friday, June 16, 2017
The pro-democracy protests of the Moroccan Spring provided the national media with an open season that could not last long. Then, entrenched ‘untouchable’ topics were debated in the public realm, including those related to the King’s centralised power; today, journalists work in a climate of...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
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- Broadcasting Law
- Defamation
- Digital Rights
- Gender
- General Resources
- Hate Speech
- Morocco
- National Security and Terrorism
- Policy and Regulation
- Protection of sources
- Protection of the Sacred and Blasphemy
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Registration / licensing of journalists
- Regulation of journalists
- Right to Information
- Statutory professional bodies
This series of Briefing Notes is designed to give readers an understanding of the key international legal standards that apply in the context of freedom of expression. Each individual Briefing Note addresses a different thematic freedom of expression issue. The first, perhaps predictably, is titled...
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
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- Accreditation
- Broadcasting Law
- Defamation
- Digital Rights
- General Resources
- Hate Speech
- International Standards
- Legislation
- MENA
- National Security and Terrorism
- Policy and Regulation
- Policy Documents and Recommendations
- Privacy
- Protection of sources
- Protection of the Sacred and Blasphemy
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Registration / licensing of journalists
- Regulation of journalists
- Right to Information
- Statutory professional bodies
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حرية التعبير ليست مطلقة ، و أنه من المسلم به على نطاق واسع أن بعض القيود على هذا الحق لها ما يبررها . العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق المدنية و السياسية تحدد اختبارا واضحا للشرعية ل هذه القيود . وفقا للمادة 19 من العهد ، والقيود مبررة إلا إذا وردت أنها بوضوح في القانون ، ومتابعة مصلحة مشروعة و ضرورية...
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Thursday, February 11, 2016
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لسيت حرية التعبير مطلقة، ومن المعروف بشكل عام أن بعض القيود على هذا الحق لها ما يبررها. يحدد العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق المدنية والسياسية اختباراً واضحاً لشرعية هذه القيود. طبقاً للمادة 19 من العهد الدولي، فإن القيود لا تكون مبررة إلا إذا كانت محددة بنص قانون لحماية مصلحة مشروعة، وأن تكون ضرورية...
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Friday, April 24, 2015
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على الرغم من أن جزءا كبيرا من منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا شهد انزلاقا ملحوظا، على مدى السنوات الماضية، نحو مزيد من الإستبداد وعدم الاستقرار والنزاع العنيف في أعقاب الإنتفاضات الشعبية . علما أن العديد من هذه المكاسب كانت وراءها 2011في المنطقة، فقد تحققت مكاسب كبيرة منذ عام الأوساط الإعلامية...
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Thursday, February 8, 2018
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- Algeria
- Broadcasting Law
- Defamation
- Digital Rights
- Freedom of Expression
- General Resources
- Hate Speech
- Legislation
- Libya
- MENA
- Morocco
- National Security and Terrorism
- Policy and Regulation
- Policy Documents and Recommendations
- Protection of the Sacred and Blasphemy
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Reports and Analysis
- Right to Information
- Statutory professional bodies
- Tunisia