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Nicht selbst zur Nachricht werden: Journalisten leben in Honduras gefährlich

Christina Weise

Blickpunkt Lateinamerika , issue 2 (2020), pp. 6-11

"Für Journalisten gehört Honduras zu den gefährlichsten Ländern der Welt. Das gilt besonders für diejenigen, die sich für Menschenrechte und Demokratie einsetzen, wie die Mitarbeiter von Radio Progreso, eines der letzten unabhängigen Medien des Landes. Jeden Tag schweben sie in Lebensgefahr." ... more

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#KeepItOn: Organising the Global Effort to End Internet Shutdowns

Sarah Pugh, Deborah Doane

International Civil Society Centre (2020), 7 pp.

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State of Internet Freedom in Chad 2019: Mapping Trends in Government Internet Controls, 1999-2019

Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 21 pp.

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A Roadmap to Protect Press Freedom During the Reconciliation Process

Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) (2020), 8 pp.

"This paper is written for the purpose of creating a roadmap to support press freedom and freedom of expression in the Afghan reconciliation process. Afghan Journalist Safety Committee (AJSC) prepared the document in collaboration with Afghan media representatives. The sole purpose of the roadmap is ... more

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A Web of Impunity: The Killings Iran's Internet Shutdown Hid

Amnesty International (2020), 9 pp.

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Safety of Female Journalists Online: A #SOFJO Resource Guide
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Silvia Chocarro, Sarah Clarke, Paulina Gutiérrez, Judy Taing

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2020), 231 pp.

"Online harassment and abuse against women journalists has become a major hazard to the profession. One that threatens women journalists’ ability to do their jobs. It violates their right to freedom of expression as much as it hampers free and open access to information for all members of society. ... more

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Turkey's Changing Media Landscape

Andrew O'Donohue, Max Hoffman, Alan Makovsky

Washington, DC: Center for American Progress (2020), 24 pp.

"This report highlights numerous troubling developments in Turkey’s media landscape. Distrust in the media has reached crisis proportions, with fully 70 percent of Turks viewing the media as dishonest. These doubts have formed the backdrop for rapid shifts in how Turks access political news and in ... more

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Strengthening the monitoring of violations against journalists through an events-based methodology

Jackie Harrison, D. Maynard, S. Torsner

Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2020), pp. 89-100

"Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 16.10.1 proposes an important monitoring agenda for the global recording of a range of violations against journalists as a means to prevent attacks on the communicative functions of journalism. However, the need for extensive collection of data on violat ... more

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Civil Society in the Digital Age in Africa: Identifying Threats and Mounting Pushbacks

Hlengiwe Dube, Maristella A. Simiyu, Tomiwa Ilori

Pretoria; Kampala: Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria; CIPESA (2020), 78 pp.

"The report documents the threats to civil society in the digital age by examining the legislative and regulatory framework in four countries in Africa: Egypt, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. These countries were selected from the four main geographic regions of Africa, in order to provide a sense ... more

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Arendt’s Algorithm: AI’s Disenfranchising Effect on Refugees as Examined Through China’s Uighur Population

Gideon Salutin

[author] (2020), 23 pp.

"China’s Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP) operates in Xinjiang by collecting Big Data and alerting authorities to those it deems potentially harmful to the CCP regime. It does so through two major devices: the mobile phone, and the camera. These act as tools of disablement constraining ... more

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Free Speech Theory: Understanding the Controversies

Helen J. Knowles, Brandon T. Metroka (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2020), xiii, 255 pp.

"The rallying cry of "Free speech!" has long served as a touchstone for liberals and conservatives, alike, engaged in political polarization conflict and discourse. The democratization of media and the feverish pitch of political polarization, however, have contributed to the weaponization of free e ... more

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A Spectrum of Shutdowns: Reframing Internet Shutdowns from Africa

Eleanor Marchant, Nicole Stremlau

International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 4327-4342

"This article explores the prevailing ways Internet shutdowns are currently understood and makes the case for a new conceptualization—one that recognizes the inherent diversity of cases and how and why they are employed. To do so, we focus on Internet shutdowns in Africa, drawing on data collected ... more

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Etat des libertés sur internet au Burundi 2019: Cartographie des tendances en matière de contrôle de l’Internet par les pouvoirs publics, 1999-2019.

Ashnah Kalemera, Victor Kapiyo, Paul Kimumwe et al. (eds.)

Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 19 pp.

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Iran: Tightening the Net 2020. After Blood and Shutdowns

London: Article 19 (2020), 63 pp.

"In November 2019, protests broke out across Iran over a fuel price hike; authorities responded with violence and repression. They also disconnected millions of Iranians from the Internet. Iran’s November shutdowns were unprecedented in length and reach. On a vast scale, they cut people off from v ... more

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Your Safety as a Journalist Reporting COVID-19

Internews (2020), 3 pp.

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COVID-19 and the Impact on Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and Freedom of the Media

Antonina Cherevko

International Media Support (IMS) (2020), 8 pp.

"This paper is intended to provide IMS departments and colleagues with an overview of the trends and challenges to freedom of expression, freedom of the media and access to information stemming from national governments’ responses to the Coronavirus pandemic. First, the paper look into the general ... more

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Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia
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Tina Burrett, Jeff Kingston (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xii, 402 pp.

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Rosario Soraide

Paris: UNESCO (2020), ?? pp.

"This report assesses progress towards the achievement of the above-mentioned outcomes during the period of 1 January to 31 December 2018, the de-facto year of operation of the inception phase for the MDPFoE. Initial contributions were provided by Austria, Canada, Norway and Switzerland. On the seco ... more

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A Lockdown for Independent Media? Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Media Landscape and Press Freedom in Central and Southeast Europe

Maxim Edwards (ed.)

Budapest: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); N-ost Netzwerk für Osteuropa-Berichterstattung (2020), 37 pp.

"Correspondents in nine countries – Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia – have analysed how the pandemic has affected to their work environment. Lockdowns have caused print media sales and advertising revenue to collapse. Media w ... more

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Kuba: Keine Besserung in Sicht. Trotz der Verfassungsreform von 2018 bleiben die Grundrechte stark eingeschränkt

Ilse Reyes, Hans-Hartwig Blomeier, Ann-Kathrin Beck

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 5 pp.

"Mit einer Reform 2018 wurden die Grundrechte in der kubanischen Verfassung stärker verankert, ein zarter Hoffnungsschimmer für die Bevölkerung. Doch in der Praxis sind die Kubaner noch immer stark eingeschränkt. Besonders die Meinungs- und Versammlungsfreiheit sind erheblich limitiert und werde ... more

Safety of Female Journalists Online: A #SOFJO Resource Guide Key Guidance

Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia Top Insights

Safety of Female Journalists Online: A #SOFJO Resource Guide
Key Guidance

Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia
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