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This report, written by Toby Mendel (senior legal counsel at ARTICLE 19) and published by UNESCO, surveys the relatively recent right to information laws in place in 11 Latin American countries, ...

Newly published scholarly work combines domains of human rights and communication rights.   Communication and Human Rights written by Aliaa Dakroury (Kendall Hunt, USA, 2009) makes a significant ...

The key question for those concerned with issues of free expression, good governance and human development, then, is how to nurture a media framework and practice which contributes to these overarching ...

Commissioned by the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), this report surveys some of the instruments available for assessing mediadevelopment. It sets out advice around clarifying the purpose and ...

La Presidenta argentina  Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ha dado a conocer la propuesta de su gobierno para comenzar a debatir una norma que reemplace la actual ley 22.285. Dicha ley reguladora de la ...

El siguiente llamamiento fue elaborado a partir de los debates sobre democratización de la comunicación en el III Foro Social Américas, Guatemala 7-12 de octubre 2008, y presentado en la Asamblea de ...

  BANGKOK, (Asia Media Forum) - The 'broad and unclear' provisions of Thailand's cyber crime act continues to baffle Netizens and civil society group, who have formed a group that  ...

La presente guía ha sido elaborada con la intención de ser puente entre los medios de difusión, los informadores y comunicadores, y las personas con discapacidad. Se espera a partir de sus recomendaciones ...

"Gobernabilidad, comunicación, inclusión y desarrollo" se denomina el Primer Foro Nacional de la Comunicación que se realizará el 4 y 5 de diciembre, en Asunción, Paraguay, para debatir la comunicación ...

For UNDP, the right to information is a key underpinning for work in democratic governance and is vital for promoting ‘open governance’ and the accountability of public decision makers as well as for strengthening ...

It seems that the concept of the right to communicate will remain sophisticated and somewhat luxurious in most of the developing countries. My experience is confined to certain parts of East and North ...

  What happened after the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the report prepared by the MacBride Commission: is it the case, in the words of the popular tango Volverby ...

Addresses different aspects of the "communication question," bringing out the ways in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at other times as a support ...

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This article argues that it is important to position the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in a historical perspective to understand the roots of the current debate and how they relate ...

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The Indian concept of kshetra 'field, region' views the issues of heritage and rights of speech communities in a pluralistic framework, highlighting the characteristics of shifting language boundaries ...

Gender discrimination determines women's exclusion in all societies and social estates, so that women constitute the poorest people. It comprises an almost insurmountable impediment for the enjoyment ...

There is much debate about whether a digital divide still exists within the United States. While some believe that Internet access is now widely available and affordable, others warn divides will continue ...