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Venezuela: Calculated Repression. Correlation Between Stigmatization and Politically Motivated Arbitrary Detentions

Amnesty International;Foro Penal;Centro para los Defensores y la Justicia (CDJ) (2022), 54 pp.
"In 2011, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders defined stigmatization as the characterization of human rights defenders as “terrorists”, “enemies of the State” or “political opponents” by state authorities and state media and its use to delegitimize their work, ... more

Venezuela: Represión calculada. Correlación entre las estigmaciones y las detenciones arbitrarias por motivos políticos

Amnesty International;Foro Penal;Centro para los Defensores y la Justicia (CDJ) (2022), 54 pp.
"La Relatoría Especial para personas defensoras de derechos humanos de Naciones Unidas, en 2011, definió las estigmatizaciones como la caracterización de personas defensoras como “terroristas”, “enemigas del Estado” u “oponentes políticos” por parte de autoridades estatales y medios ... more

Fabrikation eines Verbrechers: Der Kriminalfall Bruno Lüdke als Mediengeschichte

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 331 pp.
"Bis in die 1990er-Jahre hinein galt der Berliner Kutscher Bruno Lüdke als brutalster Serienmörder Deutschlands - eine "Bestie in Menschengestalt". Nachdem der zwangssterilisierte Mann 1943 des Mordes an einer Frau verdächtigt und festgenommen wurde, lasteten ihm NS-Kriminalpolizisten über 50 we ... more

Introducing Vigilant Audiences

Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2020), xiii, 342 pp.
"The authors engage with a range of cross-disciplinary perspectives in order to explore the actions of a vigilant digital audience — denunciation, shaming, doxing — and to consider the role of the press and other public figures in supporting or contesting these activities. In turn, the volume il ... more
"Over the past few years, Lebanon has witnessed an alarming increase in attacks on peaceful speech and expression. The country’s criminal defamation laws, which authorize imprisonment up to three years for peaceful speech, have been used against citizens who have written about pressing social issu ... more

Freedom of Expression, Media Law and Defamation: A Reference and Training Manual for Europe

London; Wien: Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI);International Press Institute (IPI) (2015), 56 pp.
"This manual has been produced to accompany a training workshop on defamation for lawyers and journalists in Europe. It contains resources and background material to help trainers prepare and participants to understand the issues being discussed. Participants in the workshops will be both journalist ... more
"Somalia is often described as ‘lawless’ or ‘the world’s most failed state’, a characterization that overlooks the way law and governance actually works in the absence of a capable central government. This article will explore the role of xeer law, or customary law, in regulating media, in ... more

The Media and the Law: A Handbook for Community Journalists

Johannesburg: Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) (2007), 40 pp.
"This handbook is intended to be a desk reference for small, independent and community media organisations, equipping journalists with the following tools: enable small independent and community media to counter growing media censorship in South Africa, and to ensure that these media are aware of th ... more
"In der modernen Mediengesellschaft können mit gezielt gestreuten Gerüchten, aufgebauschten Nebensächlichkeiten oder falschen Tatsachenbehauptungen das Ansehen und eines Menschen schnell beschädigt oder gar zerstört werden. Oft erfolgen massive Eingriffe in die Privatsphäre. Zeitungs- oder Fer ... more

Das Medienopfersyndrom

München; Basel: Ernst Reinhardt Verlag (2007), 157 pp.
"Viele Menschen genießen es, im Rampenlicht zu stehen und die Aufmerksamkeit der Medien auf sich zu ziehen. Manchmal macht Öffentlichkeit aber auch krank: Dann spricht man vom sog. Medienopfersyndrom, das sich u.a. in Angstzuständen, Selbstwertverlust, Hilflosigkeit, Isolation oder Fluchtfantasie ... more

Decriminalising Defamation: An IFJ Campaign Resource for Defeating Criminal Defamation

Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2005), 27 pp.