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UNESCO Prizes: Reviews and Renewals. UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
UNESCO (2022), 10 pp.
"In conformity with Article 8.1 of the Statutes for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize and the Revised Overall Strategy for UNESCO Prizes and its Constituent Criteria, an external evaluation of the Prize was carried out from June to July 2022 for the past six years of the Prize (201
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Is Telegram a “harbinger of Freedom”? The Performance, Practices, and Perception of Platforms as Political Actors in Authoritarian States
Post-Soviet Affairs, volume 38, issue 1-2 (2022), pp. 125-145
"This paper examines the practices, performance, and perceptions of the messaging platform Telegram as an actor in the 2020 Belarus protests, using publicly available data from Telegram’s public statements, protest-related Telegram groups, and media coverage. Developing a novel conceptualization o
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The Unfreedom Monitor: Egypt Country Report
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 20 pp.
"According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), half of the media in the country is owned by the government or affiliated with the intelligence services. The rest are owned by pro-government businessmen. The few independent press websites that are still open have been blocked. Their owners and editor
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Acabar con la infodemia: Recomendaciones sobre la transparencia de las plataformas
Foro sobre Información & Democracia; Observacom (2022), 34 pp.
"Publicadas en noviembre de 2020, las recomendaciones del Foro sobre transparencia de las plataformas digitales resultantes del informe “Cómo acabar con la infodemia” figuran en la agenda de la Conferencia Mundial sobre la Libertad de Prensa de la UNESCO que se celebra en Punta del Este (Urugua
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SLAPPs against journalists across Europe
Article 19; Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) (2022), 86 pp.
"This report provides a Europe-wide overview of lawsuits that are taken to stifle scrutiny and public debate on issues such as corruption, mismanagement of public resources, and human rights violations. Such lawsuits, known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) are taken by pow
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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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Transparencia de la moderación privada de contenidos: Una mirada de las propuestas de sociedad civil y legisladores de América Latina
Montevideo: UNESCO (2022), 41 pp.
"Se han encontrado importantes y fundados aportes desde organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil sobre el tema, con consensos sobre los principales contenidos de las exigencias de transparencia y rendición de cuentas que deberían atender las grandes plataformas de Internet -en especial las dominantes y
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"La Relatoría Especial para personas defensoras de derechos humanos de Naciones Unidas, en 2011, definió las estigmatizaciones como la caracterización de personas defensoras como “terroristas”, “enemigas del Estado” u “oponentes políticos” por parte de autoridades estatales y medios
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Internet shutdowns in international law
New York: Columbia University, Global Freedom of Expression (2022), 45 pp.
The Unfreedom Monitor: Russia Country Report
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 28 pp.
"The internet gained centrality as a space of public opinion and political activity that became important for the Russian state to co-opt and control as part of the broader push for control of political elites and public perceptions as Putin and his ruling party pushed to eliminate any functioning o
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Inclusive Journalism
Key Guides
Media Diversity Institute (2022), 88 pp.
"Using examples of the existing media coverage of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, geography, social and marital status, this handbook offers a set of educational tools that can be used in a classroom to develop sensitivity to diversity, to increase s
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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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Journalism is a Public Good: World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development, Global Report 2021/2022
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 160 pp.
"Over the past five years, approximately 85 percent of the world’s population experienced a decline in press freedom in their country. Even in countries with long traditions of safeguarding free and independent journalism, financial and technological transformations have forced news outlets, espec
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"This report documents the emerging and current trends in biometric data collection and processing in Africa. It focuses on the deployment of national biometric technology-based programmes on the continent, and the associated challenges, gaps and risks that are posed to data protection and privacy."
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"Sardasht Osman was a courageous and talented 23-year-old citizen journalist, who wrote about corruption and political mismanagement within the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in a period of political upheaval. On 13 December 2009, Sardasht wrote a satirical article accusing the family of Presiden
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The Informational Dictator's Dilemma: Citizen Responses to Media Censorship and Control in Russia and Belarus
PONARS Eurasia (2022), 9 pp.
"The findings described in this memo strongly suggest that "softer" strategies of media cooptation are more effective than harsher, more coercive approaches to media control. In Russia, where the Kremlin has-until very recently-used a combination of commercial pressure and political influence to pus
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At the Interstice of Digital Rights and Environmental Justice: Four Issue Briefs to Inform Funding
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 56 pp.
"[This is] a series of short issue briefs for funders on potential priority areas for funding activities or initiatives that would bring the work of digital rights organisations and environmental justice actors closer together. Each brief states the key problem from the perspective of the APC networ
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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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