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Shared Responsibility: Safeguarding Press Freedom in Perilous Times. Lessons Learned and New Approaches to Media Safety
Deep Insights
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2020), 91 pp.
"This report identifies five major challenges for developing national plans for safety of journalists and how stakeholders are tackling them. The points addressed concern gaining engagement around safety of journalists by state actors, uniting and focusing efforts of disparate stakeholders into a du
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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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Journalism, Press Freedom and COVID-19. Issue Brief in the UNESCO Series: World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 17 pp.
"Key trends: Fueling the pandemic, a dangerous “disinfodemic” has arisen; Against soaring demand for verified information, independent media have risen to the challenge; Technology companies are taking action, but more transparency is needed; Some regulatory measures have led to new restrictions
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"We Live in Perpetual Fear": Violations and Abuses of Freedom of Expression in Somalia
London: Amnesty International (2020), 50 pp.
"For the fifth year in a row, Somalia tops the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) Global Impunity Index on countries where those who kill journalists escape prosecution. The Somali authorities rarely investigate cases of killings or attacks on journalists, media outlets and critics. At least
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Myanmar: Censorship Harms COVID-19 Response
London: Amnesty International (2020), 4 pp.
"The Myanmar authorities should immediately lift curbs on the free flow of information to at-risk communities; ensure journalists, human rights defenders and activists can operate freely and without any harassment, intimidation, arrest, prosecution and imprisonment; and encourage rather than threate
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The Rise of Internet Throttling: A Hidden Threat to Media Development
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2020)
"An increasing number of governments around the world are forcing internet service providers to slow their services during critical sociopolitical junctures—a practice known as throttling—infringing on citizens’ right to information and freedom of expression. Despite its deleterious impact on
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Medios de comunicación: ¿al servicio de quién?
Buenos Aires: CLACSO (2020), 143 pp.
"Tenemos que afirmar que, en estos días, está en su casi totalidad, por lo menos cuando nos referimos a los medios de comunicación masivos; permeado y bajo el control de las élites económicas que, además, hay que recordarlo, son en su inmensa mayoría élites masculinas. Esta situación de dom
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Protecting the Safety of Journalists, Protecting Freedom of Expression: A Handbook for EU Delegations
Key Guides
Brussels: Media4Democracy (2020), 102 pp.
"This Handbook, which provides non-compulsory technical guidance to EU Delegations, aims to provide tools and hands-on examples to support them in implementing the the 2014 'EU Human Rights Guidelines on Freedom of Expression Online and Offline' and in taking actions to support the safety and securi
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Understanding and Implementing the EU Human Rights Guidelines on Freedom of Expression Online & Offline: Freedom of Expression Policy Essentials Webinar. Quick Guide for EU Delegations
Brussels: Media4Democracy (2020), 31 pp.
"The EU Human Rights Guidelines on Freedom of Expression Online and Offline (the Guidelines) were approved by the Council of the European Union (EU) in 2014. The Guidelines provide a policy and operational foundation for EU Delegations, EU institutions and Member States working to support freedom of
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Freedom on the Net 2020: The Pandemic's Digital Shadow
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 33 pp.
"Three notable trends punctuated an especially dismal year for internet freedom. First, political leaders used the pandemic as a pretext to limit access to information. Authorities often blocked independent news sites and arrested individuals on spurious charges of spreading false news. In many plac
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Arendt’s Algorithm: AI’s Disenfranchising Effect on Refugees as Examined Through China’s Uighur Population
[author] (2020), 23 pp.
"China’s Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP) operates in Xinjiang by collecting Big Data and alerting authorities to those it deems potentially harmful to the CCP regime. It does so through two major devices: the mobile phone, and the camera. These act as tools of disablement constraining
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Kuba: Keine Besserung in Sicht. Trotz der Verfassungsreform von 2018 bleiben die Grundrechte stark eingeschränkt
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 5 pp.
"Mit einer Reform 2018 wurden die Grundrechte in der kubanischen Verfassung stärker verankert, ein zarter Hoffnungsschimmer für die Bevölkerung. Doch in der Praxis sind die Kubaner noch immer stark eingeschränkt. Besonders die Meinungs- und Versammlungsfreiheit sind erheblich limitiert und werde
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I Know What You Mean: Information Compensation in an Authoritarian Country
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 26, issue 3 (2020), pp. 587-608
"How do people address information deficiency caused by rigid control of information in authoritarian regimes? We argue that there exists an internally oriented information compensation approach through which people can glean extra information from official messages domestically. This approach does
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‘Let Us Breathe!' Censorship and Criminalization of Online Expression in Viet Nam
London: Amnesty International (2020), 77 pp.
"On 21 April 2020, Facebook announced a major shift in its content moderation policy in Viet Nam. Under this policy, it has increasingly complied with the Vietnamese authorities’ repressive censorship of online expression deemed critical of the state.3 Facebook has disclosed that it agreed to “s
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Criminal Prosecutions of Online Speech: Outdated and Flawed Laws Used to Restrict Speech in Tunisia
London: Amnesty International (2020), 15 pp.
"An increasing number of prosecutions of bloggers and Facebook users have taken place in relation to their peaceful expression online. They have been investigated or charged or sometimes sentenced on criminal charges including defamation, insulting state institutions and “harming” others through
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Media Freedom in Ashes: Repression of Freedom of Expression in Mozambique
London: Amnesty International (2020), 11 pp.
"Canal de Moçambique is a Mozambican independent weekly newspaper that publishes investigative stories of public concern. Since its inception, Canal has relentlessly pursued and investigated cases of graft and injustice in public service and in political life such that, in the corridors of power, i
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Introducing Vigilant Audiences
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2020), xiii, 342 pp.
"The authors engage with a range of cross-disciplinary perspectives in order to explore the actions of a vigilant digital audience — denunciation, shaming, doxing — and to consider the role of the press and other public figures in supporting or contesting these activities. In turn, the volume il
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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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Iran: Tightening the Net 2020. After Blood and Shutdowns
London: Article 19 (2020), 63 pp.
"In November 2019, protests broke out across Iran over a fuel price hike; authorities responded with violence and repression. They also disconnected millions of Iranians from the Internet. Iran’s November shutdowns were unprecedented in length and reach. On a vast scale, they cut people off from v
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