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Uganda: Press Freedom Attacked by State Bodies

Eva Namusoke

Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, volume 107, issue 2 (2018), pp. 221-223

"On 16 October 2017, the editors of two popular Ugandan newspapers—the Daily Monitor and Red Pepper—were summoned to the Criminal Investigations Directorate in Kampala following the publication of stories revealing the allocation of a Ugandan Shillings 715 m (almost £150,000) budget for a plann ... more

Informe alternativo para la evaluación del Estado de Guatemala: La situación de la libertad de prensa y de la violencia contra los periodistas. Comité de Derechos Humanos, Sesión 122

Ciudad de Guatemala: Centro de Reportes Informativos sobre Guatemala (CERIGUA);Red Internacional de Derechos Humanos (RID) (2018), 21 pp.

Strengthening Police and Media Relations for the Safety of Journalists and Peaceful, Free and Fair Elections in West Africa

Michelle Betz

Accra; Copenhagen: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA);International Media Support (IMS) (2018), 42 pp.

"The relationship between the media and security agencies, including those in the law enforcement and intelligence services, has always been a delicate one. In the West African context, this relationship is often characterized by frequent clashes, arising from a somewhat startling inability of eithe ... more

Mapping the Ethiopian Media

Wazema Radio (2018), 16 pp.

"In a nutshell, the nascent print media of Ethiopia is in danger of a complete collapse. This is not the effect of the digital tsunami; it is primarily because of unprofessionalism and authoritarianism. Undoubtedly, the spread of mobile telephones and the Internet further endangers their existence. ... more

Surrendering to Silence: An Account of Self-Censorship Among Pakistani Journalists

Waqas Naeem et al.

Media Matters for Democracy (2018), 55 pp.

"The following are the ve key takeaways from the study: Pakistani journalists work in an environment that makes self-Censorship diffcult to avoid [...] 2. Pakistani journalists exercise self-Censorship in personal settings [...] 3. Journalists perceive the policies of their own news organizations a ... more

Media Ownership Monitor Albania

Reporters Without Borders;Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) (2018), 871 pp.

"The boundaries between media, politics and business have always been blurry in Albania. However, because of the small size and the high number of outlets the market was perceived by some local observers as vibrant and plural. However, a joint research project between Reporters Without Borders and t ... more

Media Ownership Monitor Mexico

Reporters Without Borders;Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social (Cencos) (2018), 1547 pp.

"Mexico’s booming media industry is controlled by some of the richest businessmen on earth. While the sector grows at a rate three times that of the overall economy, an alarming concentration of media ownership goes hand in hand with the well-known lack of safety for Mexico’s journalists, many o ... more

Estado depredador: Informe sobre el estado de la libertad de prensa en Colombia 2017

Bogotá: Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2018), 50 pp.

"La violencia sin protección ni sanciones; la pauta oficial que compra silencios; la estigmatización de la prensa como respuesta a las críticas; la violencia estatal y letal contra periodistas; las decisiones judiciales que abren la puerta a la censura y, sobretodo, aquellos extensos territorios ... more

Au-delà de la liberté: Le journaliste face aux infractions de presse

Godefroid Kabongo Nzengu

Kinshasa: Journaliste en Danger (JED);Internews (2018), 38 pp.

"Ce petit manuel va à titre didactique répertorier une liste d’infractions de presse pour attirer l’attention des médias et professionnels des médias sur leur responsabilité pénale dans l’exercice de la liberté de presse." (Verso)

An Illiberal Model of Media Markets: Soft Censorship 2017

Budapest: Mérték Media Monitor (2018), 57 pp.

"The main goal of the 2017 Soft Censorship report is to show how massively uneven the playing field has become for the various players. What remains at this point is only seemingly a market, in reality the enterprises with ties to the government operate in a whole different framework and logic than ... more

Human Rights Impact Assessment: Facebook in Myanmar

BSR (2018), 60 pp.

"Facebook commissioned BSR to undertake a human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of the company’s presence in Myanmar. BSR undertook this HRIA between May and September 2018, using a methodology based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). This assessment identifies and ... more

Legal Standards on Freedom of Expression: Toolkit for the Judiciary in Africa

Avani Singh

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 ... more

Manual de seguridad holística para periodistas de Cuba

Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2018), 112 pp.

"El manual fue creado por IWPR en base a las experiencias y recomendaciones de periodistas trabajando en Cuba, con la participación de expertos y varias organizaciones internacionales comprometidas con la libertad de expresión y la protección de periodistas. El producto final es único en su tipo ... more

Media Ownership Monitor Tanzania

Reporters Without Borders;Media Council of Tanzania (2018), 739 pp.

"Only a few media companies have a predominant market position and thus a potentially high influence on public opinion in Tanzania. Whereas the regulatory framework should in theory safeguard media pluralism and prevent media concentration, it shows considerable gaps in practice. Moreover, the legal ... more

Media Ownership Monitor Sri Lanka

Reporters Without Borders;Verité Research (2018), 825 pp.

"Viewership, listenership and readership in the Sri Lankan media market is highly concentrated among a few media owners, many of whom have political affiliations. Limited access to ownership information and a number of regulatory shortcomings pose a further threat to media pluralism in the country." ... more

Media Ownership Monitor Lebanon

Reporters Without Borders;Samir Kassir Foundation (2018), 1323 pp.

"The seemingly buzzing Lebanese media market is, in fact, controlled by only a few highly politicized owners that are either directly affiliated with political parties or belong to Lebanese dynasties. Additional threats to media pluralism arise from clear editorial lines defined by politics, close t ... more

Internet Freedoms in Palestine: Mapping of Digital Rights Violations and Threats

Marwa Fatafta

Haifa: 7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement (2018), 35 pp.

"The first part of the report provides a general introduction to the definition of digital rights and what they entail, and surveys key UN resolutions that recognise the impact of the internet on human rights. The second part of the report examines the accessibility of the internet by Palestinians a ... more

Direito à comunicação no Brasil 2017

Alex Pegna Hercog, Ana Claudia Mielke (eds.)

São Paulo: Intervozes;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2018), 76 pp.

Demonising the Media: Threats to Journalists in Europe

European Commission (2018), 15 pp.

Albanian Media Scene Versus European Standards: Report Based on Council of Europe’s Indicators for Media in a Democracy

Albanian Media Institute (ed.)

Tirana: Albanian Media Institute (2018), 79 pp.

"This report, which follows the Council of Europe’s list of “Indicators for Media in a Democracy”, intends to provide an analysis of the current media situation based on the standards upheld by this list. The aim of this report is to raise awareness on the status of affairs in the media scene ... more