Right to Information
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 Mustapha Ben Letaief, a professor at the Law Faculty at the University of Tunis El Manar, is analyzing the tensions between laws pertaining to freedom of expression, political actors and the judiciary practice in Tunisia.
Following the 2011 uprisings, new constitutional and legal...
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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
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