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El estado ante la violencia contra la prensa: Respuesta de la Unidad Nacional de Protección y la Fiscalía General de la Nación ante situaciones de riesgo y violencia

Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2019), 53 pp.

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El silencio no es opción: Barcelona protege a periodistas de México

Barcelona: Asociación por la Paz y los Derechos Humanos (2019), 114 pp.

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Theorising Voice in India: The Jan Sunwai and the Right to Information Movement

Pradip Ninan Thomas

In: The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media

Chris Atton (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), pp. 134-143

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Apostasy, Blasphemy, and Hate Speech Laws in Africa: Implications for Freedom of Religion or Belief

Ferdaouis Bagga, Kirsten Lavery

Washington, DC: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2019), 52 pp.

"This report shines light on the following trends: - Blasphemy and apostasy laws are often overbroad and can be used to limit a variety of religious expression. These laws violate international human rights law and should be repealed. - Hate speech laws are also generally overbroad and can be used t ... more

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How Free is Too Free? Across Africa, Media Freedom is on the Defensive
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Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Josephine Appiah-Nyamekye

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 ... more

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Blasphemy and Religious Defamation: What Are the Limits to Our Freedom?

Murni Wan Mohd Nor

TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World, volume 12, issue 2 (2019), pp. 31-58

"Incidents of blasphemy and religious defamation occur around the world, often provoking angry, and sometimes violent reactions from religious adherents. However, laws prohibiting blasphemy and religious defamation are heavily criticised as being against freedom of speech, despite their effect on ra ... more

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Dashed Hopes: The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Myanmar

Linda Lakhdhir

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 ... more

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Endangered Voices: Attack on Freedom of Expression in Nigeria

London: Amnesty International (2019), 40 pp.

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State of Internet Freedom in Africa 2019: Mapping Trends in Government Internet Controls, 1999-2019

Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 47 pp.

"The study has found that African countries have broadened the range of measures that govern the use of digital communications including the internet. The implementation of oppressive laws and regulations is on the rise in the countries under review. It is evident that countries are using legislatio ... more

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The 2018 Palestine Press Freedom Index

Ramallah: Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2019), 99 pp.

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Turkey: How to deal with threats to journalism?

Bora Ataman, Baris Çoban

In: Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression

Elisabeth Eide, Kristin Skare Orgeret, Nil Mutluer (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), pp. 171-190

"Journalism has always been an unsafe practice in modern Turkey. However, ties between the political system and democracy have been severed by the recent witch-hunt following the most recent failed coup, in 2016, and the subsequent societal collapse triggered by the administration of the state of em ... more

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China’s New Media Dilemma: The Profit in Online Dissent

Louisa Chiang

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019), 24 pp.

"Drawing from often overlooked sources of evidence, this report shows that China’s homegrown social media platforms have responded to market incentives by subtly shielding users from certain forms of online censorship and repression. Meanwhile, the party confronts rising costs—both economicall ... more

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An Activist's Guide: Reducing Exposure to SLAPP Lawsuits

Protect the Protest (2019), 17 pp.

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State of Media and Digital Freedoms Report in Pakistan 2018

Salwa Rana, Talal Raza, Waqas Naeem

Media Matters for Democracy (2019), 37 pp.

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Of Blackouts and Bandhs: The Strategy and Structure of Disconnected Protest in India

Jan Rydzak

[author] (2019), 54 pp.

"State governments in India have executed approximately half of the world’s known network shutdowns – large-scale, deliberate disruptions of Internet connectivity, cell phone service, or social media. India is also a hotbed of collective action with widely varying degrees of organization and coo ... more

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Targeted, Cut Off, and Left in the Dark: The #KeepItOn Report on Internet Shutdowns in 2019

Berhan Taye

Access Now (2019), 24 pp.

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Internet Shutdowns: An Internet Society Public Policy Briefing

Internet Society (2019), 13 pp.

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Social Media Platforms and Content Exposure: How to Restore Users’ Control

Maria Luisa Stasi

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, volume 20, issue 1 (2019), pp. 86-110

"Social media platforms have become themain channel for people to communicate, access information and share content. A handful of giant platforms dominate the markets and, through a complex typology of conducts, are able to strongly affect users’ exposure to content, violating their privacy, as we ... more

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Freedom and the Media: A Downward Spiral

Sarah Repucci et al.

Freedom House (2019), 30 pp.

"According to Freedom House’s Freedom in the World data, media freedom has been deteriorating around the world over the past decade, with new forms of repression taking hold in open societies and authoritarian states alike. The trend is most acute in Europe, previously a bastion of well-establishe ... more

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The State of Journalism and Press Freedom in Postgenocide Rwanda

Meghan Sobel, Karen McIntyre

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 96, issue 2 (2019), pp. 558-578

"News media played a prominent role in perpetuating the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Since then, Rwanda has undergone impressive social and economic growth, but the media landscape during this redevelopment remains understudied. Qualitative interviews with Rwandan journalists reveal that reporters censor ... more

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