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Universal Periodic Review 41st Session Period – Brazil. Joint Stakeholder Contribution: Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Religion and Belief, and Digital Rights
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 17 pp.
"This submission focuses on Brazil's fulfilment of human rights obligations in the digital context and seeks to strengthen recommendations focused on guaranteeing universal access to the internet in order to enable free expression and association; access to information, knowledge and culture; and th
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What is an Ideal Internet to You? A Global Exploration of Digital Rights Trends
Pollicy (2022), 56 pp.
"This white paper seeks to provide an overview of the core thematic issues around digital rights and digital safety across the world. The content builds off a global mapping exercise of organisations and knowledge, predominantly focused on Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Eas
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Pluralismo, diversidad y libertad de expresión: Estándares interamericanos sobre obligaciones de los Estados y límites a la regulación de medios
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 29 pp.
"Este documento hace un recorrido por los estándares fijados por los órganos del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos que establecen las obligaciones de los Estados para garantizar el pluralismo y la diversidad de los sistemas mediáticos como parte de la protección del derecho a la liberta
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Comparing Impacts on Media Freedom in Southeast Asia: Connotative Context Factors in Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand
Global Media and Communication, volume 18, issue 2 (2022), pp. 157-179
"Cross-national media freedom comparison is often based on Western-biased indices published by organizations such as Freedom House or Reporters Without Borders. Additionally, Eurocentric analysis and comparison are endorsed by the application of hegemonic media systems models to compare media enviro
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The Global Expression Report 2022: The Intensifying Battle for Narrative Control
Top Insights
London: Article 19 (2022), 75 pp.
"In 2021, the GxR metric registered two of the most dramatic declines ever seen: both Afghanistan and Myanmar dropped more than 30 points, plummeting two categories, as democratic governments were driven out and people were brutally attacked as they resisted the takeover of their governments. Countr
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Solidarity and Survival: The Story of South Asia. Bangladesh Country Report
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2022), 6 pp.
"This document was produced by the IFJ and focuses on the following issues that the media faces in Bangladesh: struggles since the 50 years of the country´s independence, surge and rise of new media, issues of harassment to journalists, persecution via law, power of the protest, use of laws to rout
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Moderación privada de contenidos en Internet y su impacto en el periodismo
Montevideo: Observacom (2022), 43 pp.
"El presente documento aborda la problemática de la moderación de contenidos en las plataformas haciendo hincapié en su impacto fundamental en el periodismo y teniendo como eje los derechos a la libertad de prensa y la libertad de expresión." (Introducción, página 5)
The Fate of Hong Kong Journalists Told in Seven Real-Life Stories
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 29 pp.
"The author used her stay at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, to interview Hong Kong journalist. This document gathered seven archetypal stories of the consequences of National Security Law (NSL) on journalists' lives. For security reasons, all names (bar the first) and some identi
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Russia – YouTube and Global Platforms: A New Battleground for Russian Journalists and Bloggers
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 13 pp.
"In the late 2010s, the Internet overtook television as the most popular media format in Russia. It was also the time when Russian-speaking YouTube went political: well-known bloggers started producing political content, opposition politicians became the most popular YouTubers, and finally mainstrea
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Tinker, Tailor, Twitter, Lie: Government Disinformation and Freedom of Expression in a Post-Truth Era
Human Rights Law Review, volume 22, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-29
"The spread of disinformation has received significant attention in recent years, yet little has been paid to government disinformation, and whether governments may violate freedom of expression not only in how they regulate disinformation, but also in how they facilitate, sow and spread it. This ar
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Indonesia: Submission to the 41st Session of the UPR Working Groups, November 2022
Amnesty International; Alliance of Independent Journalists (2022), 3 pp.
"This joint submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Indonesia in November 2022. In it, Amnesty International and the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) evaluate the implementation of recommendations made to Indonesia in its previous UPR, including in relation to hum
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Silencing Voices, Suppressing Criticism: The Decline in Indonesia's Civil Liberties
Jakarta: Amnesty International (2022), 67 pp.
"Between January 2019 and May 2022, Amnesty International recorded at least 328 physical and/or digital attacks directed against civil society, resulting in a total of at least 834 victims. The victims include human rights defenders (HRDs), activists, journalists, environmental defenders, students,
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Puntos prioritarios para garantizar el derecho a defender los derechos humanos y a a libertad de expresión
Espacio OSC (2022), 41 pp.
"Es un documento de análisis desarrollado por las organizaciones que integran el Espacio_OSC resultado de encuentros con personas defensoras de derechos humanos y periodistas realizados en Oaxaca y la Ciudad de México, con el objetivo de abonar a la generación de una política pública integral.
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Information Controls and Internet Shutdowns in African Elections
Journal of African Elections, volume 21, issue 2 (2022), pp. 1-22
"Internet shutdowns in Africa are becoming increasingly widespread, particularly when governments face competitive or contentious elections. They have also come to symbolise a widening fracture between competing conceptions of the global Internet and its regulation. Governments in Africa are justify
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Grenzenlos: Jahresbericht 2021
Berlin: Reporter ohne Grenzen (2022), 31 pp.
Internet shutdowns in international law
New York: Global Freedom of Expression Columbia University (2022), 45 pp.
COVID-19 and the Global Media Sector: Developments and Ways Forward
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 7 pp.
"COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on freedom of expression, access to information, and media freedom. Amidst an ongoing global decline in democratic freedoms, the pandemic has severely affected the work of media outlets and independent journalists. Functioning media are, however, a precondition for r
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Subordinating Freedom of Expression to Human Dignity: Promoting or Undermining Journalism—A Case of Zimbabwe
African Journalism Studies, volume 42, issue 2 (2021), pp. 43-58
"Motivated by a 2014 Constitutional Court opinion that under Zimbabwe’s new constitution of 2013, freedom of expression might have to be considered as subordinate to human dignity, the study analyses the implications of this on journalistic practice. The study argues that such a move would undermi
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Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa, Vol. 1
Key Guidance
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), 2nd ed. (2021), xl, 416 pp.
"Media Laws on the African continent have been amended, revised and rewritten since the first edition of the SADC Media Law Handbook was first published nearly a decade ago. The reasons for new media laws range from the advent of social media to the realisation of the powers-that-be that, with new t
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Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa, Vol. 2
Key Guidance
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), 2nd ed. (2021), xxxv, 334 pp.
