June 30, 2017 / by The Peninsula Qatar Geneva: H E Ali Khalfan Al Mansouri, Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Office and International Organizations in Geneva, met yesterday with Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The meeting discussed the flagrant violations of international…
June 29, 2017 / by Neena Gill, The Independent. Even though phone-hacking is now a dark part of its history, Murdoch’s media empire continues to churn out partisan and sometimes highly abusive content. One of the things that makes me proud to be British is our freedom to feel, think and say largely whatever we…
June 29, 2017 / by The Peninsula The reported demand, by a number of governments, to close the Al Jazeera Media Network in exchange for the lifting of sanctions would strike a major blow against media pluralism in a region already suffering from severe restrictions on reporting and media of all kinds, said the UN…
June 29, 2017 / by MENAFN US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Kuwait’s Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of Information Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al- Sabah stressed ‘the need for all parties to exercise restraint to allow for productive diplomatic discussions’ in the GCC, the State Department said in a readout…
June 29, 2017 / by Mikhail Minakov, Opendemocracy Eastern Europe has become a source of short- and long-term risks for the entire European continent. Inter-state conflicts, authoritarianism and illiberalism seem to permanently dwell here and increase the threats to democracy in other parts of Europe. With the commence of the Russian-Ukrainian war and annexation of…
UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye claimed this demand of the Saudi-led coalition against Qatar was a blow against media pluralism in the Middle East. June 29, 2017 / by The Wire Dubai: A United Nations expert and a media freedom watchdog on Wednesday criticised four Arab states for…
June 28, 2017 / by Lexology Background information/Scenario The Italian Communications Authority, Antitrust Authority, and Data Protection Authority started on 30 May 2017 a joint investigation with a view to identifying criticalities related the use of Big Data and to defining a regulatory framework promoting the protection of personal data, competition on the digital market,…
June 26, 2017 / by Maud Sacquet, project-disco.org On 15 June 2017, the European Commission’s Digital Vice President Andrus Ansip “lamented Parliament divisions on issues ranging from hyperlinking to text and data mining, after Members of the European Parliament tabled close to a thousand amendments to the copyright file”. As evidenced by recent coalition letters (here, here and here) from consumer representatives,…
Extended public funding of media content production is not just legitimate, it’s a prerequisite for the maintenance of democracy June 27, 2017/ byDr Roddy Flynn, DCU School of Communications, dcu.ie A day long symposium organised by the Institute for Future Journalism and Media (“FuJo”) at Dublin City University at DCU last week made the…
After Arab states arrayed against Qatar issue 13-point list of demands, resolution of crisis looks more distant than ever June 25, 2016 / by Andalou Agency International actors and public figures in Qatar have slammed a 13-point list of demands — including one for the closure of the Al Jazeera news network — issued by…
June 25, 2017 / by Andalou Agency, Daily Sabah. International actors and public figures in Qatar have slammed a 13-point list of demands — including one for the closure of the Al Jazeera news network — issued by four Arab states embroiled in a weeks-long political row with Doha. In a statement, the Brussels-based International…
June 2, 2017/ By New Europe Media plurality in Europe is at risk, according to the latest Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) report by The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom’s (CMPF). The analysis assessed risks to media plurality in the EU, Turkey and Montenegro using data gathered over the year of 2016. Cyprus, Italy and Norway were…
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