Libya
Social media in the Arab world before the recent revolutions had been described as marginal, alternative and elitist, and their impact minimal because of the low penetration rates of the internet. The 2011 events across the Arab world have brought ‘social media’ to the forefront, with many...
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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The improvements in the Arab world were the most significant findings of Freedom of the Press 2012: A Global Survey of Media Independence, an annual index published by Freedom House since 1980. The gains came on the heels of eight consecutive years of decline in the global average press freedom...
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
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An exuberant proliferation of media outlets is emerging in areas controlled by Libya’s rebels. The ability to talk openly, publish, and broadcast without fear is an unprecedented freedom for a society repressed and heavily censored for decades, and one that is being seized with energy and...
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
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من أجل صياغة دستور جديد لليبيا، سيعمل المؤتمر الوطني العام على إنشاء "اللجنة الدستورية" والتي ستتألف من 60 عضواً. إستجابة لهذه الجهود ودعماً لها، أنتجت منظمة "المادة 19" موجزاً شاملاً للسياسات، يُحدد الكيفية التي ينبغي بها على الدستور الجديد حماية الحق في حرية التعبير وحرية الحصول على المعلومات. تم...
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Monday, July 1, 2013
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The ongoing crisis in Libya means that media legislation may not have much effect in reality. It is often unclear whether pre-revolutionary legislation still applies and new laws may disregardinternational best practice. It has been difficult to get access to official, current versions of...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
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With the objective of establishing a society of citizenship, justice, equality, progress, development and prosperity in which there is no place for despotism, repression, tyranny, exploitation and individual power, the National Transitional Council has decided to promulgate this Constitutional...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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This report was written by Fatima el Issawi and published in 2013.
Muammar Qaddafi kept a firm grip on Libya’s media sector and used it as a propaganda tool for his regime. After the dictator’s fall in 2011, the media sector was opened up, but reconstruction efforts lacked vision and have fallen...
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Friday, November 1, 2013
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Much has been written about the media in Libya and Tunisia following the revolutions of 2011, most of it focused on the role of social media, mobile telephony and the internet, as well as on rapidly proliferating private media. There has been little research, however, that looks at the media...
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Sunday, March 1, 2015
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Over the past several years, the Arab world has been characterised by an increasingly polarised political discourse. ‘After the Arab uprisings: the prospects for a media that serves the public’ looks at the state of broadcast media in the region, four years after the 2011 uprisings. It focuses on...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
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يقدم هذا التقرير نظرة عامة حول الديناميكيات التي تسم وتضفي خصائصها على خطاب الكراهية على الأنترنت، وحول بعض الإجراءات التي تم اعتمادها لمواجهته والتخفيف من حدته، مع تسليط الضوء على الممارسات الجيدة التي انبثقت على المستويين المحلي والعالمي. وإذا كانت هذه الدراسة تقدم تحليلاً شاملا للأطر المعيارية...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015