Oktober 9, 2017 / By Servimedia La Plataforma en Defensa de la Libertad de Información (PDLI) lanzó hoy el ‘Manifiesto por un periodismo responsable ante el conflicto catalán’. Según informa la PDLI en un comunicado, “los últimos acontecimientos en relación con el conflicto catalán y el tratamiento informativo del que están siendo objeto, obligan a…
Oktober 6, 2017 / By Civil Georgia, Tbilisi Civil.ge spoke about the press freedom developments in Georgia and the region to OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir, who visited Tbilisi on October 2-4 and met with the country’s authorities, as well as the representatives of media and civil society organizations. My first question…
21 September, 2017 / By rcmediafreedom The media sector in Montenegro is characterised by strong political polarisation. The few examples of non-aligned investigative journalism are subject to both direct and indirect pressure by the financial and political powers in the form of legal actions and, in the worst cases, of physical attacks to reporters and their property. The…
September 20, 2017 / By Jhinuk Chowdhury At a time when the Fourth Estate of the world’s most powerful democracy—the US—is beginning to worry about the fate of its freedom of expression under the new Trump administration, some of the lesser known heroes of democracy—in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa—are making significant strides in guaranteeing a free and an…
20 September, 2017 / By Global Voices Olga Kyryliuk es una experta en Derecho Internacional con un doctorado y cofundadora de la ONG ucraniana Defensores Digitales Asociados – DDA (Партнери цифрового правозахисту en ucraniano), que se dedica a proteger los derechos humanos en línea y a promover la idea de internet libre, abierta y accesible para…
14 September, 2017 / La Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas (ADEPA) destacó la agenda de libertad de expresión que está implementando el gobierno de Mauricio Macri, donde se terminó la guerra contra los medios y se avanzó en una agenda que incluye el acceso a la información pública, las conferencias de prensa y medios públicos…
September 4, 2017 / By Faruk Bildirici, hurriyetdailynews Perhaps I should have written this article on the first anniversary of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. But at that time so many emotional speeches were being delivered and so many sentimental articles were being written that it was difficult to make a cool-headed contribution. But now…
August 22, 2017 / By ElHuffPost El periodista y escritor turcoalemán, arrestado en España por orden de Ankara, sostiene que “cooperar con Turquía sería una tragedia para la sociedad española”. El escritor turco-alemán Dogan Akhanli, detenido temporalmente en España a petición de Turquía, ha asegurado que sería una “tragedia” no sólo para él sino para la…
July 18, 2017 / By prnoticias.com ¿Son los medios de comunicación europeos verdaderamente independientes? Aunque aparentemente los países occidentalizados tienen presumen de su libertad de información un estudio encargado por la Unión Europea pone en cuestión esta afirmación. El documento, emitido por el Centro de Estudio de Política Europea bajo el nombre de Análisis comparativo…
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 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…
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