International Standards

نحن الخبراء المشاركون من الجزائر ومصر والأردن ولبنان والمغرب وتونس واليمن – بدعوة من منظمة "تبادل الإعلام الاجتماعي" و"مركز القانون والديمقراطية"، و"دعم الإعلام الدولي" – في ورشة عمل نحو إصلاح أنظمة الإعلام في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا: ورشة عمل حول الحق في الوصول إلى المعلومات، قد اجتمعنا في...
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Friday, June 16, 2017
دافع لويس برانديس – خبير القانون البارز والقاضي بالمحكمة العليا بالولايات المتحدة – عن قيمة الشفافية والانفتاح في عام 1913 بقوله: "العلنية واجبة كتعويض وسند لمواجهة الأمراض الاجتماعية والصناعية. يُقال إن نور الشمس أفضل مُطهر للجروح، وأن المصباح الكهربائي هو الشرطي الأكثر فعالية". في ذلك الزمن كانت...
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Friday, June 16, 2017
The Internet was designed to enable the free flow of information; however, technical measures restricting access to content are now worryingly commonplace in authoritarian and democratic countries alike. Whereas the Great Firewall of China used to be the most extreme example of how repressive...
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Monday, December 5, 2016
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
Freedom of expression is a core human right and a free and vibrant public discourse is vital to maintaining a democratic system. At the same time, it is recognised that certain types of speech can cause harm. The question over where the line should be drawn between legal content and hate speech is...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
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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Friday, June 16, 2017
Louis Brandeis, an eminent jurist and United States Supreme Court Justice, defended the value of transparency and openness in 1913 by noting: “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most...
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Friday, June 16, 2017
المقرر الخاص في الامم المتحدة حول حرية الرأي و التعبير - ممثل منظمة الامن و التعاون في اوروبا حول حرية الاعلام -المقرر الخاص لمنظمة الدول الاميركية حول حرية التعبير - و المقرر الخاص للجنة الافريقية لحقوق الانسان و الشعوب حول حرية التعبير و الوصول الى المعلومات
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media, the Organization of American States (OAS) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and the African...
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017
The protection of reputation – the esteem in which one is held by society - is an important social purpose. Defamation laws, while aiming to suppress or redress harms to reputation resulting from speech – whether spoken aloud, distributed in print, broadcast, or otherwise publicly communicated –...
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Monday, April 4, 2016

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