Reports and Analysis
This study focuses on the Syrian independent exile media (SEM) organisations and institutions that have developed since the 2011 uprising. These media emerged and developed amid a war of unprecedented scope and complexity; a war that has taken a heavy toll on Syria’s civilians and displaced a huge...
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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
This report by Adnane Bouchaib, a lawyer with Bouchaib Law Firm in Algiers, is analyzing the tensions between laws pertaining to freedom of expression, political actors and the judiciary practice in Algeria.
Following the 2011 uprisings, new constitutional and legal guarantees for freedom of...
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Thursday, February 8, 2018
This report by Abdelaziz Nouaydi, university professor and lawyer at the Rabat Bar, is analyzing the tensions between laws pertaining to freedom of expression, political actors and the judiciary practice in Morocco.
Following the 2011 uprisings, new constitutional and legal guarantees for freedom...
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Thursday, February 8, 2018
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
The Algerian media landscape, while exhibiting some of the structural features of the industry in neighbouring North African countries, is unique in tending to employ a bolder tone and showing comparatively greater resistance to pressure. It is empowered by a long history of braving taboos,...
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017
تركز هذه الدراسة على المنظمات والمؤسسات الإعلامية السورية المستقلة في المنفى التي نشأت منذ انتفاضة 2011. ظهرت هذه الوسائط وتطورت وسط حرب لم يسبق لها مثيل من حيث النطاق والتعقيد. حرب تسببت في خسائر فادحة في صفوف المدنيين في سوريا وشردت جزء كبير من سكانها. أجبرت ديناميكيات الحرب وتأثيرها على الأرض...
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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The Government of Morocco has undertaken two important initiatives in its efforts to improve transparency and governance in the Kingdom: The adoption of the Draft Law Regarding the Right to Access Information (the Draft Law) and the joining of the Open Government Partnership.
Both of these...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017