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Commitments: Freedom of the Media, Freedom of Expression, Free Flow of Information 1975-2017

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, 4th ed. (2017), 75, 75 pp.

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From the Web to the Streets: Internet and Protests Under Authoritarian Regimes
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Kris Ruijgrok

Democratization, volume 24, issue 3 (2017), pp. 498-520

"This article systematically investigates the relationship between internet use and protests in authoritarian states and democracies. It argues that unlike in democracies, internet use has facilitated the occurrence of protests in authoritarian regimes, developing a theoretical rationale for this cl ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor Brazil

Reporters Without Borders;Intervozes (2017), 925 pp.

"Power in Brazil means family business, both traditionally and to this very day. Dynasties of landowners known as “Colonels” extend their territorial claims to the airwaves, combining economic and political interests with tight control of public opinion. Neither digital technology and the rise o ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor Ghana

Reporters Without Borders;Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2017), 567 pp.

"The Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) reveals a high level of audience concentration in various media sectors. An almost maximum concentration was found among the printed press, where the top four media companies (Graphic Communications Group Limited, New Times Corporation, Western Publications Limited ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor Morocco

Reporters Without Borders;Le Desk (2017), 618 pp.

"Nine of the 36 media companies involved in Morocco’s most influential media are directly linked to the state, the government or the royal family. Four of them – SOREAD, SNRT, EcoMedias and Horizon Press – are among the most important media companies in terms of turnover and show the potential ... more

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Prevent – Protect – Prosecute: Acting on UN Human Rights Council Resolution 33/2

London: Article 19 (2017), 38 pp.

"In September 2016, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) broke new ground with the unanimous adoption of HRC Resolution 33/2 on the safety of journalists. The HRC is the world’s highest human rights body and its resolutions are a strong collective commitment from States to act on priority human right ... more

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Direito à comunicação no Brasil 2016

Lara Moura (ed.)

São Paulo: Intervozes;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2017), 85 pp.

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Challenges for Independent Media

Phnom Penh: Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) (2017), 14 pp.

"Only 11 percent of 75 surveyed journalists said Cambodian media was headed in the right direction, down from 71 percent in 2015. 83 percent said media freedom had decreased in the past year. 92 percent consider the shutdowns of independent media outlets this year to have been political. 38 percent ... more

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So This is Democracy? State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa 2017

Reyhana Masters (ed.)

Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2017), 189 pp.

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Blasphemy and Related Laws in Selected Jurisdictions

Washington, DC: Law Library of Congress (2017), 57 pp.

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A Guide to Freedom of Expression in Libya

London: Lawyers for Justice in Libya;International Media Support (IMS) (2017), 13 pp.

"The prospect of a new Libyan constitution offers an opportunity for consolidated, clear and robust legal protections for freedom of expression. However, the current Constitutional Draft contains significant legal loopholes and establishes institutions of uncertain power. The failure of the Constitu ... more

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Global Media Giants
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Benjamin J. Birkinbine, Rodrigo Gómez, Janet Wasko (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 496 pp.

"Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News C ... more

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Veracruz: Journalists and the State of Fear

Artur Lara Romeu, Balbina Flores Martínez et al.

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2017), 35 pp.

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Safeguarding Civil Society: Assessing Internet Freedom and the Digital Resilience of Civil Society in East Africa

Small Media;CIPESA;Defend Defeners;CIPIT (2017), 127 pp.

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Canaries in a coal-mine? What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression

Anita R. Gohdes, Sabine C. Carey

Journal of Peace Research, volume 54, issue 2 (2017), pp. 157-174

"[...] To test the argument whether the killing of journalists is a precursor to increasing repression, we introduce a new global dataset on killings of journalists between 2002 and 2013 that uses three different sources that track such events across the world. The new data show that mostly local jo ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights

Howard Tumber, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2017), xix, 520 pp.

"The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media, including scholarship that examines media as a human right alongside that which looks at media coverage of human rights issues. This international collection of 49 newly written piece ... more

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Freedom of the Press 2017: Press Freedom’s Dark Horizon
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Jennifer Dunham

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2017), 28 pp.

"Press freedom worldwide deteriorated to its lowest point in 13 years in 2016, driven by unprecedented threats to journalists and media outlets in major democracies, intensified crackdowns on independent media in authoritarian settings, and moves by the Russian and Chinese regimes to increase their ... more

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First Steps in Understanding Freedom of Expression Online and Offline
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Bogdan Manolea, Liana Ganea (eds.)

American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) and supported by the United States Department of State. (2017), 44 pp.

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El derecho a la libertad de expresión: Curso avanzado para jueces y operadores jurídicos en las Américas. Guía curricular y materiales de estudio

Catalina Botero Marino, Federico Guzmán Duque, Sofía Jaramillo Otoya, Salomé Gómez Upegui

Bogotá: Dejusticia (2017), 356 pp.

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Case Study on ICT and Human Rights (Policies of EU)

Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Anja Møller Pedersen, Wolfgang Benedek, Reinmar Nindler

European Commission (2017), x, 95 pp.

"The first part of the study focuses on the EU’s internal policies in the field of online content regulation. Drawing on case-studies of three EU directives – Directive 2000/31/EC on e-commerce, Directive 2011/93/EU on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child porn ... ography and Directive 2004/48/EC on intellectual property rights enforcement – the study seeks to illustrate how dealing with alleged illegal content through blocking, filtering and take-down of content within co- and self-regulatory frameworks shaped around ‘Internet intermediaries’ challenge freedom of expression and information. The directives presuppose, accept or encourage self-regulation and, combined with schemes of limited liability, subject the intermediaries to an increasing pressure to implement public policy in the online domain. However, these practices and their limitations to freedom of expression are rarely framed as human rights issues, nor do they have the required safeguards. Based on analysis of the EU directives, the study explores the weaknesses – seen from a human rights perspective – of the European approach towards tackling illegal content on the Internet. The study provides a number of suggestions to ensure that the EU addresses the human rights implications of co- and self-regulation, including the strengthening of safeguards and guidance for Member States and intermediaries to implement the said EU policy. Also, the study calls for a comprehensive EU freedom of expression and information framework, covering both its internal and external policy. In line with this, the EU should consider the freedom of expression and information implications of current and new policies when reviewing them according to the Digital Single Market Strategy. The second part addresses the external policies of the EU with a focus on the protection and support of Human Rights Defenders using digital means (‘Digital Defenders’). For this purpose, EU policies and instruments of relevance for Digital Defenders are analysed, including the implementation of the Internet Freedom Strategy and the No Disconnect Strategy. The programmes under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights are reviewed with respect to their relevance for human rights activities online, taking into account the recent EU Guidelines on Freedom of Expression Online and Offline. This part of the study also explores the related issues of the safety of journalists (which are often citizen journalists), export control of surveillance technology by the EU Member States and the cooperation with other international organisations active in the field of online rights. Proposals are offered on how to improve the general environment for Digital Defenders and their right to freedom of expression and information, and how to improve the coherence of EU action in this field. The newly created Human Rights Defenders Mechanism can play a pivotal role in this regard, as could updated EU Guidelines on human rights defenders." (Executive summary) more

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First Steps in Understanding Freedom of Expression Online and Offline Key Guidance

From the Web to the Streets: Internet and Protests Under Authoritarian Regimes
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Global Media Giants
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Freedom of the Press 2017: Press Freedom’s Dark Horizon
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First Steps in Understanding Freedom of Expression Online and Offline
Key Guidance