Right to Information
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
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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
The pro-democracy protests of the Moroccan Spring provided the national media with an open season that could not last long. Then, entrenched ‘untouchable’ topics were debated in the public realm, including those related to the King’s centralised power; today, journalists work in a climate of...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
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- Broadcasting Law
- Defamation
- Digital Rights
- Gender
- General Resources
- Hate Speech
- Morocco
- National Security and Terrorism
- Policy and Regulation
- Protection of sources
- Protection of the Sacred and Blasphemy
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Registration / licensing of journalists
- Regulation of journalists
- Right to Information
- Statutory professional bodies
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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- Accreditation
- Broadcasting Law
- Defamation
- Digital Rights
- General Resources
- Hate Speech
- International Standards
- Legislation
- MENA
- National Security and Terrorism
- Policy and Regulation
- Policy Documents and Recommendations
- Privacy
- Protection of sources
- Protection of the Sacred and Blasphemy
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Registration / licensing of journalists
- Regulation of journalists
- Right to Information
- Statutory professional bodies
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
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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- Algeria
- Broadcasting Law
- Defamation
- Digital Rights
- Freedom of Expression
- General Resources
- Hate Speech
- Legislation
- Libya
- MENA
- Morocco
- National Security and Terrorism
- Policy and Regulation
- Policy Documents and Recommendations
- Protection of the Sacred and Blasphemy
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Reports and Analysis
- Right to Information
- Statutory professional bodies
- Tunisia
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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- Algeria
- Broadcasting Law
- Defamation
- Digital Rights
- Freedom of Expression
- General Resources
- Hate Speech
- Legislation
- Libya
- MENA
- Morocco
- National Security and Terrorism
- Policy and Regulation
- Policy Documents and Recommendations
- Protection of the Sacred and Blasphemy
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Reports and Analysis
- Right to Information
- Statutory professional bodies
- Tunisia
، أقرت في دول المغرب العربي ضمانات دستورية وقانونية جديدة لحرية 2011وفي أعقاب انتفاضات عام التعبير والإعلام. ومع ذلك، فإن الحقوق والحريات التي ضمنتها القوانين الجديدة لا تزال تواجه تحديا بسبب عدائية السلطات المسؤولة عن حماية حقوق الانسان وممارسة قضائية ما انفكت تفتقر الى الاصلاح. وعلاوة على ذلك،...
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Thursday, February 8, 2018
This report by Thomas Ebbs, Director of Research with Lawyers for Justice in Libya, is analyzing the tensions between laws pertaining to freedom of expression, political actors and the judiciary practice in Libya.
Following the 2011 uprisings, new constitutional and legal guarantees for freedom of...
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Thursday, February 8, 2018