"¿Por qué hacer un libro sobre protesta social en América Latina? Porque los movimientos indígenas, cooperativas obreras, grupos ecologistas, movimientos feministas, agrupaciones piqueteras, movimientos estudiantiles y hasta las cacerolas de la clase media y los sectores de altos recursos, entre
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otros, se están manifestando en la región. Y es que la protesta social es la posibilidad pública y simbólica de expresar activamente nuestras demandas, nuestras frustraciones ciudadanas y de existir en público. Esto hace que la protesta social sea una zona de intersección entre la libertad de expresión, la gobernabilidad democrática y lo mediático político. Lo que sabíamos del asunto era que tanto los medios de comunicación como los gobiernos cuentan el reclamo más que el contenido de la protesta, cuentan los destrozos más que las demandas, asumen el confl icto como negativo para la democracia, y cuando aparecen los sectores que protestan los “localizan” en el lamento y la sensiblería. El resultado es que poco o nada se entiende acerca de la protesta social como ejercicio activo de la libertad de expresión. En este libro periodístico queremos contar los modos como la protesta social toma forma en América Latina y cómo se relaciona con la democracia." (Introducción, página 7)
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"This book offers a rigorous, theory-based, and uniquely comprehensive, analysis of European and international legal standards shaping minorities’ right to freedom of expression. The analysis pays particular attention to the instrumental role played by traditional and new forms of media in ensurin
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g that the right to freedom of expression of persons belonging to minorities is effective in practice. The relevant international legal framework is set out in detail, including a careful examination of the relationship between generalist and minority-specific international human rights instruments. Due attention is paid to the historical circumstances in which key instruments were developed and the contemporary context in which they are now being interpreted. The analysis is also informed by an awareness of institutional and political dynamics. All of this forms the basis for the book’s central objective: to mount a critical evaluation of the existing international legal framework governing freedom of expression for minorities, while drawing on theoretical insights gained from human rights scholarship and communications science. The first major focus of the evaluation is the regulation and restriction of expression to protect minority rights, in which issues such as pluralism, tolerance and “hate speech” feature centrally. Its second major focus, the regulation and facilitation of expression to promote minority rights, explores cultural and linguistic rights and media access questions." (Back cover)
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"The freedom of expression situation in Azerbaijan has deteriorated significantly over the past five years. Since the 2005 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, the authorities have demonstrated an intolerance to criticism, using a variety of tactics to silence critical voices. As a result, many ci
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vil society and political activists feel they are living again as dissidents, as they did under the Soviet system. In this report, ARTICLE 19 analyses trends of concern from a freedom of expression perspective over the past five years, with a particular focus on freedom of political expression. The report contains individual case studies, as well as an overview of international freedom of expression standards and the relevant domestic legal framework in Azerbaijan. It also contains ARTICLE 19’s recommendations to the Azerbaijani government and the international community on how to improve the freedom of expression situation, which should be considered among the most pressing human rights concerns in Azerbaijan." (Back of the publication)
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"El cómic consta de 36 páginas ilustradas y tiene por objeto explicar conceptos complejos relacionados con la libertad de expresión en un lenguaje accesible y fácil de entender. Disponible en formato impreso y en línea, el libro está dirigido a jóvenes y adolescentes y se distribuye en escuel
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as de toda América Latina, con la ayuda de las comisiones nacionales, las escuelas asociadas a la UNESCO y redes de la sociedad civil. El cómic aborda los principios de la libertad de expresión y explica cómo se pueden promover mediante buenas prácticas, como la distribución equitativa de la frecuencia o el establecimiento de organismos reguladores independientes. También explica cómo las malas prácticas, como la censura, la autocensura, la violencia contra los periodistas, los delitos de opinión severamente castigados o los títulos obligatorios y la afiliación a asociaciones profesionales para los periodistas, pueden poner en peligro la libertad de expresión." (Página web de UNESCO, 12/05/2010)
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"This guide, compiled with the most updated sources at the time of going to press in early 2009, will take you step by step towards becoming an effective investigative journalist, gaining and practicing the necessary skills and thus gaining the self-confidence required to do a job that is both effec
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tive and fulfilling for you. We'll show you each step wit the help of examples of good reporting, both from Afghanistan, countries in the region as well as international examples which turned around situations and removed powerful people from the public scene after they crossed the line." (Preface)
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"This article, inter alia, attempts to analyze and focus on the historical, formalistic, and design aspects of Pakistan’s existing blasphemy laws from a comparative perspective. It argues that, quite apart from procedural inadequacies of the Pakistani legal system and its special socio-political c
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ircumstances, the very form and design of the blasphemy laws invite abuse.2 Findings demonstrate that textual lacunae in the law enable its use as an instrument of misuse, hence leading to the argument that the abusive potential of the law exists even independently of social context. When the blasphemy laws are contextualized within the atmosphere of increasing religious intolerance pervading certain sections of the social fabric in Pakistan, however, their subversive potential is revealed in its entirety. In effect, the blasphemy laws, in their current form, are an instance of legislation inherently open to abuse, operating in an environment that is at times unfortunately conducive to that abuse. This has also resulted in their emergence as a potent tool for the victimization of religious minorities and relegation of these minorities, in many instances, to the status of fearful pariahs subject to legally mandated persecution. The existence of blasphemy laws can be argued for in a society and under a constitutional framework that attaches a premium to the underlying sacred values that such laws may be promulgated to protect. This article, however, argues that the laws, in their current form, have caused, and continue to cause, several miscarriages of justice and are a stimulus for strengthening the negative and highly divisive forces of obscurantism, intolerance, and fanaticism in Pakistani society." (Introduction, pages 305-306)
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"This study explores perceptions of freedom of the press by those who practice it: journalists and media organizations. References to freedom of the press in codes of ethics worldwide were analyzed according to the respective characteristics of organizations and the political-economic status of each
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country considered. The findings show that the concern journalists express about their freedom is not necessarily related to with the level of freedom of the press prevailing in their respective countries. Moreover, the codes of developing countries primarily display concern about the most fundamental freedoms of all." (Abstract)
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"La idea tras esta publicación es presentar un panorama de la situación vigente en libertad de expresión y de prensa, y de libre acceso a la información en América Latina. Con este fin, invitamos a periodistas, comunicadores, académicos e intelectuales líderes de toda la región a aportar art
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ículos, algunos con enfoque regional y otros con perspectiva nacional. Nuestro objetivo es reforzar la comprensión y apoyo de estas libertades, como punto de referencia de dónde estamos y también a dónde necesitamos llegar. Este libro está publicándose además como aporte latinoamericano a la conmemoración del Día Mundial de Libertad de Prensa para 2008." (Introducción, página 28)
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"This paper aims to be 'an analytical tool designed to help stakeholders assess the state of the media and measure the impact of media development programmes' (page 7). It has been prepared to define indicators of media development in line with the priority areas of the International Programme for t
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he Development of Communications (IPDC). It suggests five major categories of indicators, and each category is broken down into a number of component issues and sources of verification. The five categories are: a system of regulation and control conductive to freedom of expression; plurality and diversity of media; media as a platform for democratic discourse; professional capacity building and supportive institutions; and infrastructural capacity." (CAMECO Update 2-2008)
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"El trabajo se propone investigar qué es la Sociedad de la Información y qué son las Sociedades del Conocimiento, quiénes han sido los actores y temas en debate y cuál podría ser la ruta crítica que permita analizar si es posible pensar en nuestros días qué otra comunicación es posible." (
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"This Manual is primarily designed to be used as a resource for a training course for laypersons on the basics of freedom of expression. It is intended to be used course participants, as well as by the trainers delivering it. While it is largely selfexplanatory, at the same time training will work b
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etter if delivered by trainers who have been provided with inputs from freedom of expression experts, so that they have a broader set of resources to draw upon than are set out in the Manual itself. As a result, it is idea if the trainers have undergone a training of trainers session on how to use the Manual." (Pages 1-2)
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