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Internet Universality: Advancing Inclusive Digital Transformation with ROAM-X Indicators
Key Guidance
Paris: UNESCO (2024), 126 pp.
2023 Synthesis of UNESCO Evaluations
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 69 pp.
"The 2023 Synthesis of UNESCO evaluations draws on information contained in 36 evaluations – five corporate and 31 decentralized evaluations. The analysis shows that the Organization is making good progress in a range of areas including demonstrating a sharper focus on SDGs, developing fast as an
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Global Media Defence Fund
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 11 pp.
"The Global Media Defence Fund (“the Fund”) is a UNESCO Multi-Partner Trust Fund/Programme developed with the goal of enhancing media protection and improving the access of journalists to specialized and gender-sensitive legal assistance. Administered by UNESCO, the Fund was established thanks t
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Acabar con la infodemia: Recomendaciones sobre la transparencia de las plataformas
Foro sobre Información & Democracia;Observacom (2022), 34 pp.
"Publicadas en noviembre de 2020, las recomendaciones del Foro sobre transparencia de las plataformas digitales resultantes del informe “Cómo acabar con la infodemia” figuran en la agenda de la Conferencia Mundial sobre la Libertad de Prensa de la UNESCO que se celebra en Punta del Este (Urugua
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UNESCO Prizes: Reviews and Renewals. UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
UNESCO (2022), 10 pp.
"In conformity with Article 8.1 of the Statutes for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize and the Revised Overall Strategy for UNESCO Prizes and its Constituent Criteria, an external evaluation of the Prize was carried out from June to July 2022 for the past six years of the Prize (201
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UNESCO’s Judges’ Initiative: Training the Custodians of the Legal System on Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and the Safety of Journalists
Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online, volume 25, issue 1 (2022), pp. 54-76
"Human rights, the rule of law and democracy are interlinked and mutually reinforcing. Within the framework of international human rights law, the right to freedom of expression particularly stands out, as it constitutes a pre-requisite for the fulfilment of other fundamental rights. In this regard,
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Journalism Safety from a Multilateral Organization Perspective
Journalism Practice, volume 16 (2022), pp. 1955-1964
"The commentary highlights the analysis of an international organizations’ technocrat in charge of implementing multilateral policy designed to increase the safety of journalists by preventing, protecting, and prosecuting crimes against them. Being UNESCO the leading coordinating UN agency in the
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Evaluation of UNESCO’s Work in the Thematic Area of Media and Information Literacy (MIL)
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 128 pp.
"Overall, this evaluation has shown that over the last biennia UNESCO has made significant achievements through its work in MIL and is holding the lead in this constantly evolving field that has gained increasing importance at the forefront of global and national agendas. It also revealed that MIL o
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The Resource Mobilization Guidebook
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 134 pp.
"In light of the positive evolution in the mobilization of voluntary contributions over recent years, UNESCO can be more ambitious in setting its resource mobilization targets. At USD 453 million, the funding gap in the draft programme and budget for 2020- 2021 represents an increase of 30% over tha
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Access to Information: A New Promise for Sustainable Development
Top Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 54 pp.
"The central aim of this study is to unpack the major trends in the field of access to information laws and their implementation. In order to understand the trends, the report examines the activities of trendsetters. It focuses on awareness-raising by UNESCO, Member State recommendations in the Univ
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Monitoring Media Sustainability: Economic and Business Revisions to Development Indicators
In: What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
Peter Berglez; Ulrika Olausson; Mart Ots (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 243-256
"Robert G. Picard describes the evolvement of UNESCO's media development indicators. The chapter describes a growing focus on economic, financial and managerial dimensions, since, it argues, they pave the fundament to any sustainable, commercial or non-commercial journalistic venture. What Picard cr
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Youth Mobile 2018 Report: Empowering the Next Generation
Paris: UNESCO (2018), 16 pp.
"The UNESCO YouthMobile Initiative leverages the widespread availability of mobile phones to empower youth through digital skills training. Young people are introduced to coding as both a resource to solve local issues and a tool to develop complex learning skills. Through YouthMobile training, stud
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UNESCO Policy on Engaging with Indigenous Peoples
Paris: UNESCO (2018), 38 pp.
"The UNESCO Policy on engaging with indigenous peoples guides the Organization’s work, in all areas of its mandate, that involve or are relevant for indigenous peoples and of potential benefit or risk to them. It ensures that the Organization’s policies, planning, programming and implementation
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UNESCO's safety of journalists agenda: What impact?
Australian Journalism Review, volume 40, issue 2 (2018), pp. 29-35
"Mention journalists' safety in a conversation, and the spontaneous mental image is often that of a war correspondent. However, in 2017 at least, 55 per cent of the killings of journalists registered by UNESCO were not in countries with significant armed conflict (UNESCO, 2018a). In addition, and as
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Reading the Past, Writing the Future: Fifty Years of Promoting Literacy
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 92 pp.
"Reading the past, writing the future: Fifty years of promoting literacy" takes stock of youth and adult literacy interventions which have been implemented since 1966, when UNESCO held its first International Literacy Day. The publication sheds light on the literacy-related challenges the world is n
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UNESCO’s Research Agenda on the Safety of Journalists: Call for new academic research initiatives
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Ulla Carlsson; Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 103-108
"Within this global context, UNESCO is the UN agency with the mandate to advance “the mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples, through all means of mass communication” and to promote “the free flow of ideas by word and image”. UNESCO has defined press freedom as designating the conditi
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The International History of Communication Study
New York; London: Routledge (2016), xvii, 527 pp.
The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information: Critical Perspectives
Top Insights
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015), xxiv, 508 pp.
"There are a multitude of UN legal instruments which pertain to the rights of freedom of expression and information, and this book is the first to comprehensively map them and their function. It details the chequered history of both rights within the UN system and evaluates the suitability of the sy
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Indicadores UNESCO de Cultura para el Desarrollo
Paris: UNESCO (2014), 140 pp.
