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Information Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) on the Impact of Cyber Security Cybercrime Laws enacted by Southern Africa Governments on Media Freedom and Digital Rights
Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA); Internews; USAID (2023), 633 pp.
"In 2023, Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA) through its consortium partner, Internews, undertook the most comprehensive review yet of laws affecting media practice and the freedom of expression, including cyber laws, penal codes, constitutions and acts of parliament, in the sixteen Souther
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The "misuse" of the judicial system to attack freedom of expression: Trends, challenges and responses
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 16 pp.
"The gradual trend toward the decriminalization of defamation is slowing down, with 160 states still not having decriminalized defamation. The use of criminal defamation offences to restrict online expression has increased worldwide. Several States have harshened or reintroduced provisions on libel,
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Legal and Normative Frameworks for Combatting Online Violence Against Women Journalists
November 2022: UNESCO; International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2022), 35 pp.
"In this chapter, international, regional and State-level legal and normative frameworks for responding to online violence against women journalists are examined, while exemplar judgements are catalogued, and gaps in law enforcement are highlighted. Here, insights gleaned from 184 in-depth interview
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Combatting Online Harassment and Abuse: A Legal Guide for Journalists in England and Wales
Media Lawyers’ Association (MLA); Media and Sport (DCMS) Culture Department for Digital (2021), 48 pp.
Fighting Violence Against Women Online: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Frameworks in Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda
Internews; Pollicy (2020), 25 pp.
"The highest levels of regulation, from international treaties to constitutions, are unambiguous about creating an environment in which women thrive. However, this egalitarian space must be progressively realized, and one aspect of this work is eliminating discrimination, including in relation to ge
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Violating Rights: Enforcing the World’s Blasphemy Laws
Washington, DC: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2020), 95 pp.
"In this report, the authors examine and compare state implementation and enforcement of criminal laws prohibiting blasphemy (“blasphemy laws”) worldwide over the five-year period between January 2014 and December 2018. The criminal cases this study analyzes represent states’ enforcement of la
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Tabloid Journalism and Press Freedom in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), x, 184 pp.
"This book studies tabloid journalism newspapers within the broader context of press freedom in Africa. After defining tabloid journalism and professional practices within various political contexts, the book then proceeds to consider tabloids in Southern Africa and emerging cyberspace laws. Many fa
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Legal Responses to Online Harassment and Abuse of Journalists: Perspectives from Finland, France and Ireland
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media; International Press Institute (IPI) (2019), 39 pp.
"This report specifically examines legal remedies for online attacks against journalists. It looks at three case studies, in Finland, France and Ireland, of female journalists who were viciously attacked online for their work and the ensuing attempts to hold the perpetrators accountable. From an ana
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Silencing a Snakehead Fish: A Case Study in Local Media, Rural-Based Activism, and Defamation Litigation in Southern Myanmar
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone, Gayathry Venkiteswaran (eds.)
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 151-176
"My focus in this chapter is on civil society mobilization in Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar, and particularly in Kanbauk, a village of about 1,500 households in the Tanintharyi Hills, eighty kilometres north of the regional capital, Dawei. In recent years, Kanbauk villagers have contended w
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International Standards and Comparative National Approaches to Countering Disinformation in the Context of Freedom of the Media
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media; International Press Institute (IPI) (2019), 57 pp.
Media Freedom Monitoring Report
Ulaanbaatar: Globe International Center; Bar Association of Mongolia; Media Council of Mongolia (2019), 42 pp.
"Mongolia has much work to do to ensure full media freedom. Laws on defamation and access to information hamper media’s ability to report fully on matters of public interest and public figures engaged in public business. A deeper understanding of international standards on media freedom and the va
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Policy Update: Pakistan's Blasphemy Law
Washington, DC: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2019), 3 pp.
Unpacking the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan
Asian Affairs, volume 49, issue 2 (2018), pp. 319-339
"Over the years, Pakistan's notorious blasphemy laws have been a central instrument for the persecution of religious minorities. While these laws are colonial in origin, they exist today within the context of a general Islamisation of laws, which combined with the state's inability to hold a monopol
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Faith on Trial: Blasphemy and ‘lawfare’ in Indonesia
Ethnos, volume 83, issue 2 (2018), pp. 371-391
"This article develops the argument that blasphemy trials occupy a pivotal role in ‘religion-making’ in post-1998 Indonesia. Examining a blasphemy trial on the island of Lombok in 2010, I argue that the process of democratisation has given civilian actors more opportunity to engage Indonesia’s
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Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study
Barbara Trionfi (ed.)
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2017), 267 pp.
"This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislat
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Civil Defamation and Media Freedom in Hungary: Trends and Challenges in Court Practice in Personality Rights Cases
Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2017), 21 pp.
"The present study examines current legislation and court practice in Hungary regarding civil law violations of rights to reputation, privacy and likeness, with a particular focus on trends in terms of awarding non-pecuniary damages/restitution. Through an analysis of relevant legislation and a pres
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Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression: Comparative, Theoretical and Historical Reflections After the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2017), xix, 740 pp.
"The tension between blasphemy laws and the freedom of expression in modern times is a key area of debate within legal academia and beyond. With contributions by leading scholars, this volume compares blasphemy laws within a number of Western liberal democracies and debates the legitimacy of these l
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Respecting Rights? Measuring the World’s Blasphemy Laws
Washington, DC: United States Commission of International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2017), ix, 138 pp.
"We have seen in our monitoring of religious freedom worldwide how blasphemy laws, in both theory and practice, harm individuals and societies. In commissioning the study found in the following pages, USCIRF sought to ascertain the prevalence of blasphemy laws worldwide and measure how the content o
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Blasphemy Law and Public Neutrality in Indonesia
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, volume 8, issue 2 (2017), pp. 57-62
"Indonesia has the potential for social conflict and violence due to blasphemy. Currently, Indonesia has a blasphemy law that has been in effect since 1965. The blasphemy law formed on political factors and tend to ignore the public neutrality. Recently due to a case of blasphemy by the Governor of
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The Crime of Speech: How Arab Governments Use the Law to Silence Expression Online
Electronic Frontier Foundation (2016), 31 pp.
"I have found that Saudi Arabia and Jordan rely on counterterrorism and cybercrime regulations to prosecute online activism. Egypt uses a new anti-protest law passed in 2014 and Tunisia, in contrast, relies on old defamation and anti-drug laws that have been used for decades prior to the revolution.
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