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The National Communication Council: Opportunity or Constraint for Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Cameroon?
African Journalism Studies, volume 41, issue 1 (2020), 16 pp.
"This paper underlines the relevance of devising an effective legislative framework that sets out the organization of the National Communication Council (NCC), the main media regulator in Cameroon. It argues that the rules and procedures informing the functioning of the NCC should clearly affirm and
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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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Media Policy in a Pandemic: Lessons from Moldova, Ukraine and Latvia
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 8 pp.
Lése-majesté and journalism in Turkey and Europe
"This chapter deals with lèse-majesté laws and their impact on the exercise of freedom of political expression and journalism from the perspective of international human rights law. In doing so, it addresses the chilling effects of the application of a particular crime of lèse-majesté, namely
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A Roadmap to Protect Press Freedom During the Reconciliation Process
Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) (2020), 8 pp.
"This paper is written for the purpose of creating a roadmap to support press freedom and freedom of expression in the Afghan reconciliation process. Afghan Journalist Safety Committee (AJSC) prepared the document in collaboration with Afghan media representatives. The sole purpose of the roadmap is
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COVID-19: The Role of Judicial Operators in the Protection and Promotion of the Right to Freedom of Expression: Guidelines
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 13 pp.
"Judges and courts, both at national and regional levels, will find these guidelines useful to ensure the application of international and regional human rights standards of freedom of expression and privacy when ruling on cases involving States’ responses to the COVID-19 outbreak that have an imp
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New Digital Media: Freedom of Expression and Safeguarding Journalists in the Context of East Africa
Cross Cultural Human Rights Review, volume 2, issue 1 (2020), pp. 49-71
"Many East African states have developed restrictive legal and policy measures regarding the use of the internet. This has resulted in the declining state of media freedom and safety of journalists. This article addresses freedom of expression as a pre-condition for safeguarding journalists in selec
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Guía de derechos de autor: La protección de la creacion
Santiago de Chile: Ministerio de Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, 2nd ed. (2020), 164 pp.
"La reedición y actualización de la presente guía sobre derechos de autor tiene por objeto apoyar en la difusión y conocimiento sobre la materia, la que muchas veces es difícil de abordar, no sólo para los artistas sino también para los expertos. Esperamos que el presente trabajo sea un aport
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"There is a growing and urgent threat to the safety of journalists across Europe which constitutes a terminal threat to democracy and urgent action by Council of Europe Member States is required. At the international level, detailed guidance and standards for the protection of journalists have been
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Media Independence and Sustainability
Global Conference for Media Freedom, November 16, 2020 (2020), 6 pp.
"Without new public funding, regulation of digital markets, and international support systems for non-profit media, independent professional journalism is in danger of becoming an expensive luxury rather than a universal public good. The press freedom and media development communities have joined jo
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Expanding Shrinking Communication Spaces
Toronto; Penang: Centre for Communication Rights; World Association for Christian Communication (WACC); Southbound (2020), 130 pp.
"All human and social activity depends on communication. No matter the issue — poverty, conflict resolution, self-determination, migration, health, land, housing, the climate crisis — little can be done without effective communication. A framework is needed that enables, empowers, and transforms
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Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), 382 pp.
"The book draws on critical media policy studies, to study the principles and performances of policies and policymaking for community radio in four countries of South Asia---Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. It focuses on the processes and practices of deliberation that go into policymaking,
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Tackling Disinformation and Infodemics Demands Media Policy Changes
Digital Journalism, volume 8, issue 6 (2020), pp. 855-863
"Disinformation and infodemics have been central for the media policy agenda in most countries and in particular in Europe. Yet, the European Commission has had a soft law approach centralizing obligations to handling information disorder on a content level. This commentary argues that by focusing p
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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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"Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are a form of legal harassment. Pursued by law firms on behalf of powerful individuals and organisations who seek to avoid public scrutiny, their aim is to drain the target’s financial and psychological resources and chill critical voices t
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Urheber- und Verlagsrecht
Frankfurt am Main: Bramann, 2., überarb. und aktual. Aufl. (2020), 163 pp.
"Das Geschäftsmodell Verlag definiert sich über den Erwerb und die Vermarktung von Rechten. Der durch einen Autoren- bzw. Lizenzvertag erworbene Content bildet das Fundament ökonomischer Wertschöpfungsketten. Daher gehört das Wissen um urheberrechtliche Zusammenhänge zu den Grundlagen verleger
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Transparent for Whom? Dissemination of Information on Ghana's Petroleum and Mining Revenue Management
Journal of Development Studies, volume 56, issue 12 (2020), pp. 2135-2153
"The dominant transparency narrative in policymaking attributes a key role to the public: once citizens gain information, they are predicted to use it to demand better resource governance. Whether the public receives the available information in the first place, however, has not been scrutinised in
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Losing the News: The Decimation of Local Journalism and the Search for Solutions
New York: PEN America (2019), 114 pp.
"Local news plays a fundamental role in our democracy, fostering civic engagement and holding government officials and corporations accountable. Its collapse represents a national crisis of such scale and significance that it necessitates philanthropists, private companies, government regulators, la
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