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Media Policy in a Pandemic: Lessons from Moldova, Ukraine and Latvia
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 8 pp.
Democratização dos meios de comunicação: Estado, direito e políticas públicas
Porto Alegre: Editora Fi (2020), 277 pp.
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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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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"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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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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"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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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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Politizar la tecnología: Radios comunitarias y derecho a la comunicación en los territorios digitales
Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Jinete Insomne (2020), 206 pp.
"Como se podrá observar en cada una de las páginas del texto, en realidad las tecnologías están diseñadas para incrementar los mecanismos de penetración del capitalismo y otras formas de dominación en cada una de las esferas de nuestras vidas. En este sentido, es menester observar las relacio
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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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Assessing Whistleblowing Legislation: Methodology and Guidelines for Assessment Against the EU Directive and Best Practice
Berlin: Transparency International (2020), 94 pp.
"In 2019, the European Union adopted the “Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law” (Whistleblower Protection Directive). EU Member States are required to transpose the provisions of th
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Guía de derechos de autor: La protección de la creacion
Ministerio de Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, 2nd ed. (2020), 164 pp.
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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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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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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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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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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