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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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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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Thursday, February 8, 2018
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In many countries around the world today, political transitions and the rise of digital technology have changed the way governments influence the media. With some exceptions, pre-publication censorship and pre-approval of news and information is mostly a thing of the past. Political transitions in...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017
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
New media and the information revolution have not only empowered access to information but also fuelled the spread of disinformation. Such is the scale of the problem that the World Economic Forum has defined misinformation as one of the world’s most urgent problems. Corrupt, neo-authoritarian...
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Monday, April 4, 2016
Electronic surveillance—of e-mail communications, telephone calls, visits to websites, online shopping, and even the physical whereabouts of individuals- is now pervasive the world over. This has enormous implications for privacy and for freedom of expression and association on the one hand and for...
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Saturday, April 4, 2015
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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
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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