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- Principios para garantizar la diversidad y el pluralismo en la radiodifusión y los servicios de comunicación audiovisual (2010)
- Travel guide to the digital world: surveillance and international standards (2014)
- Regardless of frontiers: global freedom of expression in a troubled world (2021)
- Journalismus in Burundi: Erfahrungswelten in Konflikt und Transformation (2019)
- Kept in the dark: social and psychological impacts of network shutdowns in India (2018)
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Arab media moguls
London; New York:
Tauris
(2015), xiii, 233 pp., bibliogr. p.223-228, index
ISBN 978-1-78076-732-1 (pbk); 978-1-7845-3277-2 (hbk); 978-0-7556-0854-6 (online)
"Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and r...
Expression restricted: an account of online expression in Pakistan
Bytes for All; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); APC Impact
(2015), 37 pp.
"How is freedom of expression in Pakistan’s digital spaces governed? What protections do journalists and bloggers enjoy? What is censored and how conducive is the environment for political and religious expression online? This research looks at these questions within the premise of an internationa...
Security versus access: the impact of mobile network shutdowns. Case study: Telenor Pakistan
London:
Institute for Human Rights and Business
(2015), 49 pp.
"Network shutdowns are usually justified on security grounds, and the counterargument is often framed around the impact on freedom of expression. However, the impacts of network shutdowns can have far-reaching, adverse economic and social implications and could affect future economic growth; further...
The new censorship: inside the global battle for media freedom
New York:
Columbia University Press
(2015), x, 236 pp., bibliogr. p.217-223, index
ISBN 978-0-231160643
"Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, Joel Simon calls for a global freedom-of-expression agenda. He proposes ten key priorities, including combating the murder of journalists, ending censorship, and a global free-expression charter to challenge the criminal and corrup...
The United Nations and freedom of expression and information: critical perspectives
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(2015), xxiv, 508 pp., index
ISBN 9781107083868 (print); 9781316018552 (online)
"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...
Travel guide to the digital world: surveillance and international standards
London:
Global Partners Digital
(2014), 98 pp., glossary p.80-84, web direct. p.86-87
"The internet has enabled an unprecedented ability to monitor and track people and information flows as highlighted in the 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden about online surveillance carried out by the United States’ National Security Agency. The revelations have kicked off debates across the wor...
Internet freedom and freedom of expression in South Africa
Johannesburg:
Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI); Raith Foundation
(2014), 31 pp.
"In a rapidly changing civil-political and socio-economic environment, the internet has emerged as one of the primary mechanisms that influence and continue to redefine the practice of democracy. Internet freedom is therefore an increasingly important safeguard towards advancing not only freedom of ...
Losing control: freedom of the press in Asia
Canberra:
Australian National University (ANU) E Press
(2014), xvi, 282 pp., abbrev. p.258-261, bibliogr. p.262-274, index
ISBN 9781925021431 (pbk); 9781925021448 (ebook)
Other Editions: 1st ed. Asia Pacific Press, 2000
"Losing Control: freedom of the press in Asia takes us right up to the end of this tumultuous century. It deals with the Chinese media cranking up its latest propaganda campaign, this time against the Falun Gong. It discusses how the Indonesian media lost its way in reporting the tragedy in East Tim...
Post-2015 MDGs: freedom of expression and the media
Bonn:
Deutsche Welle DW Akademie
(2013), 6 pp.
"Access to information, freedom of expression and an independent media are important for a sustainable future. They should be explicitly included in a future framework describing UN development goals for the years beyond 2015. We discuss two options: firstly, integration of “information access and...
Freedom of expression and the internet
Strasbourg:
Council of Europe
(2013), 190 pp., bibliogr. p.173-190
ISBN 978-92-871-7702-5
Other Editions: Updated and revised 2nd edition 2020, 240 p.
"This book sets out to answer essential questions regarding the extent and limits of freedom of expression online. It seeks to shed light on the often obscure landscape of what we are allowed to say online and how our ideas, and the process of imparting and receiving information, are protected. It s...
Freedom of expression and the internet
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
(2013), v, 81 pp.
ISBN 978-0-8270-6134-7
Other Editions: also published in Spanish
"In this document the Office of the Special Rapporteur endeavors to make available to all States in the region, general principles for the protection of the right to freedom of thought and expression online. These principles are intended to provide guidance to governments, legislative and regulatory...
Freedom of expression toolkit
Paris:
UNESCO
(2013), 83 pp., illustr.
ISBN 978-92-3-001114-7
"The Freedom of Expression Toolkit is UNESCO’s contribution to freedom of expression and it is written with upper high school students in mind. The Toolkit covers the major concepts and issues and it is written in an easy to understand, conversational manner ... Overall, the Toolkit consists of fo...
L’état de la liberté de la presse en Afrique centrale francophone. RD Congo: sous pretexte de la guerre
Kinshasa:
Journaliste en Danger (JED)
(2012), 100 pp.
Leaping over the firewall: a review of censorship circumvention tools
Washington, DC:
Freedom House
(2011), 75 pp.
"Internet censorship poses a large and growing challenge to online freedom of expression around the world. Censorship circumvention tools are critical to bypass restrictions on the internet and thereby to protect free expression online. Circumvention tools are primarily designed to bypass internet f...
L’etat de la liberté de la presse en RD Congo (du 11 déc. 2009 au 10 déc. 2010)
Kinshasa:
Journaliste en Danger (JED)
(2010), 8 pp., 3 tables
Principios para garantizar la diversidad y el pluralismo en la radiodifusión y los servicios de comunicación audiovisual
Buenos Aires:
AMARC América Latina y Caribe
(2010), 109 pp.
CC BY-NC
"Este documento expone cuarenta principios con la identificación de las fuentes de doctrina y jurisprudencia comparada con el fin de establecer pautas para la radiodifusión pública, comercial y comunitaria, en el contexto regional actual. Consideramos que este trabajo es un aporte frente a la esc...
L’état de la liberté de la presse en Afrique centrale. Rapport annuel 2009
Kinshasa:
Journaliste en Danger (JED)
(2009), 110 pp.
The price of silence: the growing threat of soft censorship in Latin America
Buenos Aires; New York:
Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC); Open Society Institute
(2008), 179 pp.
ISBN 978-1-891385-83-4
Other Editions: also published in Spanish
"The Price of Silence exposes a growing trend across several countries in Latin America: behind-the-scenes government interference with media freedom and editorial independence. This “soft censorship” and its pervasive chilling effects have not received the attention they deserve. By conducting ...
El precio del silencio: abuso de publicidad oficial y otras formas de censura indirecta en América Latina
Buenos Aires; New York:
Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC); Open Society Institute
(2008), 191 pp.
ISBN 978-987-23559-1-3
Other Editions: also published in English
"El precio del silencio' revela una tendencia creciente en varios países de América Latina: la interferencia “tras bambalinas” que ejercen los gobiernos sobre los medios de comunicación y la independencia editorial. Esta “censura sutil” y sus continuos efectos inhibitorios aún no han rec...
Live news Africa: a survival guide for journalists
Brussels; Dakar:
International News Safety Institute (INSI); International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Africa Office
(2007), 87 pp.
"Live News: A Survival Guide for Journalists, is carefully tailored to help journalists to prepare themselves mentally, physically and psychologically before engaging on an assignment that can be very dangerous. The guiding tips provided in the text help to prepare the journalists mentally before, h...
