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Press Freedom and the Global State of Democracy Indices
Stockholm: International IDEA (2019), 11 pp.
"Significant advances in Freedom of Expression and Media Integrity, as measured in the GSoD Indices, have been achieved in the last four decades. Citizens around the world are today more able to enjoy the freedom to openly discuss political issues, and to have access to a diverse and critical media,
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Dashed Hopes: The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Myanmar
Human Rights Watch (2019), 87 pp.
"This report—based largely on interviews in Myanmar and analysis of legal and policy changes since 2016—assesses the NLD government’s record on freedom of expression and assembly in its more than two years in power. It updates Human Rights Watch’s prior report, “They Can Arrest You at Any
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On media censorship, freedom of expression and the risks of journalism in Mexico
Information Development, volume 35, issue 4 (2019), pp. 666-670
"We present a classification of the types of censorship of media to frame the various issues that journalism and freedom of expression face in Mexico, which mainly include the role of the State in preventing or enforcing censorship, the monopoly of a few corporate groups that control most of the mas
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Media Sustainability Index 2019: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2019), xxi, 308 pp.
"The 2019 Europe and Eurasia Media Sustainability Index (MSI) saw another improvement in the combined average score for the 21 countries studied: In 2018, the combined average score was 1.84, and in 2019 this increased to 1.86. In comparison with the previous year’s study, there were modest gains
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Journalismus in Burundi: Erfahrungswelten in Konflikt und Transformation
Wiesbaden: Springer (2019), xvii, 469 pp.
"Das Buch befasst sich mit der Rolle von Medien in einem politischen Ausnahmezustand. Bettina Haasen hat in Burundi Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu ihrem beruflichen Rollenselbstverständnis befragt und diese Aussagen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer sozialen Herkunft und den Zielen der internation
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African Media Barometer: Nigeria 2019
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2019), 60 pp.
The 2018 Palestine Press Freedom Index
Ramallah: Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2019), 99 pp.
Endangered Voices: Attack on Freedom of Expression in Nigeria
London: Amnesty International (2019), 40 pp.
An Investigation into State Suppression of Freedom of Expression in Lesotho
IJCIRAS, volume 2, issue 2 (2019), pp. 75-82
"The constitution of Lesotho gives assurance to freedom of expression which is supposed to protect the rights of journalists in the day to day dispensation of their duties. The situation on the ground however shows the exact opposite. Recent history can show assassination attempts on practicing jour
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Western Sahara: A Desert for Journalists
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2019), 34 pp.
"On 26 February 1976, after almost a century of colonization, Spain withdrew from Western Sahara, throwing the territory wide open for Moroccan civil and military occupation and abandoning tens of thousands Sahrawis to their fate. More than four decades later, the Western Sahara, officially the last
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Media Sustainability Index 2020: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Sri Lanka
Washington, DC: IREX (2019), 22 pp.
"The year 2019 was challenging for Sri Lanka, with the Easter Sunday Attacks and the subsequent anti-Muslim riots paralyzing the country and the economy. After the Easter Sunday attacks, the first terrorist attacks on Sri Lankan soil in a decade, it was expected that the media would play a responsib
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How Free is Too Free? Across Africa, Media Freedom is on the Defensive
Deep Insights
Cape Town: Afrobarometer (2019), 34 pp.
"Popular support for media freedom continues to decline, dropping to below half (47%) of respondents across 34 countries. More Africans (49%) now say governments should have the right to prevent publications they consider harmful. Twenty-five of 31 countries tracked since 2011 experienced declines i
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Media corruption and issues of journalistic and institutional integrity in post-communist countries: The case of Bulgaria
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, volume 52, issue 1 (2019), pp. 71-79
"From a normative standpoint the media are usually seen as one of the pillars of a national integrity system, entrusted with the tasks of exposing and preventing acts of corruption and educating the public of the harm caused by corruption. Nevertheless, corruption continues to be one of the most sig
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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
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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African Media Barometer: Madagascar 2019
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2019), 54, 56 pp.
Ethiopia: Reflections on Media Reform
Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2019), 60 pp.
The Media Freedom White Paper
Sofia: Union of Publishers (2018), 32 pp.
Information Not Found: The “Right to be Forgotten” as an Emerging Threat to Media Freedom in the Digital Age
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2018)
"The so-called Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) refers to the removal of content from either search engine indexes or even the entire internet so that it is not readily accessible to end users. While the concept emerged out of a European legal tradition that favors the privacy of non-public individuals,
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Legal Standards on Freedom of Expression: Toolkit for the Judiciary in Africa
Paris: UNESCO (2018), 218 pp.
"The toolkit encompasses a broad variety of issues, which should be considered by judicial actors in the course of their work to protect human rights. It covers legal standards of freedom of expression according to international and regional instruments and core texts and surveys pertinent jurisprud
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