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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
This post-election phase presents an important window of opportunity for reforming the media landscape in Tunisia
By Kamel Labidi
Few outside Tunisia would have predicted that a low profile constitutional law professor would win the Tunisian Presidential elections with a landslide victory this...
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
The window of opportunity to implement true reforms, guaranteed by explicit laws and grounded in practice, is now.
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
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
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
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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
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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
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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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