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These Principles set out an appropriate balance between the human right to freedom of expression, guaranteed in UN and regional human rights instruments as well as nearly every national constitution, and the need to protect individual reputations, widely recognised by international human rights...
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Tuesday, June 6, 2000
The aim of this report is to provide a comprehensive mapping of the main issues arising from an understanding of the Internet as a human right, and to establish parameters within which future debate on human rights issues for the Internet can take place.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
لضمان تدفق حر للمعلومات ذات الصلة بالانتخابات، لا بد من الاستعانة بعددٍ من القوى الفاعلة، وبأنظمة معلومات مختلفة. تشكّل الأحزاب نفسها، إذ تنطلق من مصلحتها الشخصية المتمثلة في الفوز في الانتخابات، جزءاً أساسياً من النظام لأوسع لنشر المعلومات. كما تشكّل وسائل الإعلام بدورها لاعباً أساسياً في هذا...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
Ensuring a free flow of information in relation to elections involves many actors and many different information systems. Parties themselves, driven by self-interest in their desire to win the election, are a key part of the wider system of information dissemination. The media are also a key player...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
يتناول هذا التقرير المعايير الدولية للحماية من أجل تعميق فهم حرية تداول المعلومات، وذلك بهدف المساهمة في دراسة الضمانات الدستورية وضع ضمانات دستورية أفضل لهذا الحق الأساسي. كما يتناول هذا التقرير أيضا المختلفة ومقارنة التفاسير القضائية لحرية تداول المعلومات على خلفية المفاهيم الحديثة والناشئة...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
This report examines international standards of protection in order to further understanding of the right to information, with a view to contributing to the development of better constitutional guarantees for this key right. The report also examines and contrasts different constitutional guarantees...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
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In Libya, with a view to the current state of media development, UNESCO has chosen to conduct a baseline study of Outcome 4 ‘Professional capacity building and supporting institutions’ and indicators 3.13 and 3.14 of Outcome 3 “Media as a Platform for Democratic Discourse” as these two outcomes...
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Monday, May 25, 2015
This report documents attacks against journalists and the offices and facilities of media outlets since the 2011 uprising, including threats, assaults, kidnappings, and killings and addresses the failure of the government to protect journalists and the media, and hold perpetrators of attacks on...
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Monday, May 25, 2015
Under Gaddafi, the media was used solely to secure his own power. Content was highly politicised in favour of the regime and any criticism of Gaddafi would result in imprisonment or worse. The revolution saw an explosion of new private media while the old state media apparatus is struggling to cope...
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
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The media in Tunisia has undergone drastic changes since the country’s 2011 revolution. From content that was once uniform and restricted in the extreme, Tunisian media outlets have moved away from echoing the state line and are now providing diverse output. A host of new media outlets have cropped...
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Friday, May 25, 2012
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- Regulation of journalists
- Right to Information
- Safety
- Statutory professional bodies
- Tunisia