8 may, 2018 / By Government of Ghana Two new Global Reports by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) —World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: 2017/2018 Global Report and Re|Shaping Cultural Policies have been launched in Accra. The two Global Reports were outdoored as part of activities marking this year’s World Press…
7 may, 2018 / By Myjoyonline.com The government has been urged to promote laws and practices that protect freedom of opinion and expression in the country. The appeal was one of four recommendations by a panel put together at a public lecture organised by the Centre for European Studies (CES) in partnership with Media4Democracy with the…
May 4, 2016 / By Jok P Mayom, Gurtong South Sudan on Tuesday joined the rest of the world in marking the World Press Freedom Day under the theme “Access to information and fundamental freedoms” with calls to protect journalists. The celebration held at Nyakuron Cultural Centre and attended by media houses in Juba was organized…
2 May, 2016 / By http://news.peacefmonline.com/ Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Mr. Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng, has expressed disquiet about the long delay of the passage of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill. Although he noted Ghana has come far in its quest for freedom of expression, he said the absence of a relevant and specific…
2 May, 2016 / By Mizzima.com On the face of it, Myanmar appears to have turned the page on locking up journalists. One of the first acts of the new Aung San Suu Kyi-Htin Kyaw government was to free several journalists who had been locked up during the tenure of President Thein Sein’s government. But…
30 April, 2016 / By Emmanuel Odonkor, Ghana Bussines News A right to information activist says parliament’s delay in passing the Right to Information Bill for Ghanaian citizens may be due to politicians’ misconstruing of the law as one for the media and their fear that it will give too much power to the media. Ms…
26 April, 2016 / By Bizcommunity Over 40 journalists and media experts have assessed the state of media freedom and expression, access to information and media pluralism and diversity in sub-Saharan Africa – providing all articles for publication to all media at no charge on World Press Freedom Day. The Media Institute of Southern Africa…
Observatory of Media Pluralism 