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Photo credits: ALDA organisation Video challenge: “Practices on youth policy” Creative people, it is you we are looking for! YouthMetre partners are looking for videos documenting the implementation of the EU Youth Strategy and its goals at national and local levels. What is the future you want? How can it best be achieved? What are […]
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European Youth Press
The IFJ has called for the “immediate and unconditional” release of jailed Macedonian freelance journalist Zoran Bozhinovski
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
by Gianna Iacino
In May 2016, the Italian Government passed the Freedom of Information Act. The law foresees the right of every citizen to request information from public authorities without having to give a reason.
Italy just got its first Freedom of Information Act, requiring authorities to provide information to citizens free of charge and to give an explanation if denying it. (Photo: public domain)
The organisation Foia4Italy (Freedom of Information Act for Italy), comprised of 32 civil society groups, lobbied for the first-ever Freedom of Information Act in Italy. It will enter into force in December 2016.
The first…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Pauline Betche
After revealing an alleged corruption scandal within the judicial system of Kosovo, Maria Bamieh lost her job. Then she was investigated for a breach of secrecy and now finds herself in a legal battle about the rule of law against the EU Kosovo mission and the UK government. ECPMF supports her case.
Bamieh lost her job as EULEX prosecutor after denouncing alleged internal corruption and is suing.
Bamieh, a former prosecutor for the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), claims that the EU mission in charge of fighting corruption may itself be…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Jean-Claude Schlumberger, and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, on the 23rd of August condemned the attack on the premises of Radio Television Kosovo (RTK) in Prishtinë/Priština
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The Peace Journalist magazine is seeking submissions for the October, 2016 edition. The Peace Journalist is a semi-annual publication (print and .pdf) of the Center for Global Peace Journalism at Park University in Parkville, Missouri. The Peace Journalist is dedicated to disseminating news and information for and about teachers, students, and practitioners of peace and […]
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European Youth Press
Marc Raboy is Professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications at McGill University and author of Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World. Professor Raboy was a Visiting Professor at LSE’s Department of Media and Communications between September 2015 and September 2016, and will deliver a public lecture on 11 October 2016. CEO Mark Zuckerberg attracted a lot of […]
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Media Policy Project
The Association of Professional Journalists (APJ) in Albania together with a coalition of journalists’ organisations called on the Albanian Parliament to withdraw a provision in an anti-corruption law that would threaten media freedom
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
An investigation by the Prishtina-based website Insajderi.com has lead to the resignation of Adem Grabovci, chief of Kosovo’s ruling parliamentary group
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
by Oleg Soldatov
The Internet has offered millions of users the opportunity to access an unprecedented corpus of information, alongside the benefits of electronic communication. At the same time, regulation of the online domain is gradually being tightened, as an analysis of the most recent challenges to the ECtHR in Turkey and Russia shows.
As access to expressing one's opinion on a mass scale has grown on the Internet, i.e. via social media, states in conflict have moved to crack down on civil society's expressions and interactions in the online domain.
In recent years, the so-called Web 2.0…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
