Reports and papers

Analyses on specific aspects related to press and media freedom, performed and published by research centres, non-governmental organizations and public bodies

Women in newsrooms: perspectives on equity, diversity and resilience

Looking at the Western Balkans, this report highlights the trends, opportunities and obstacles, identified through the sharing of experiences and perspectives by women working in the media, to paint a more nuanced and complex picture of women’s role in newsrooms, news-making and regional societies more broadly

read more Media and gender Albania North Macedonia Kosovo Serbia Montenegro Bosnia Herzegovina

SLAPPs in Europe: How the EU can protect watchdogs from abusive lawsuits

This report is the joint submission to the European Commission public consultation on EU action against SLAPPs, strategic lawsuits against public participation

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The authorities vs. the citizens. ‘In the crosshairs’ namely SLAPP Polish-style

Polish independent news service OKO.press, supported by the Rafto Foundation, prepared a report about SLAPPs. The report is based on 21 interviews with activists and lawyers, as well as discussions with activists, including in courts and at police stations, not only with the accused and charged, but also with those who came to demonstrate their support

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Impact of Social Media Law on Media Freedom in Turkey Monitoring Report

The report covers the period between October 2020 and October 2021, consisting of input from 36 news outlets concerning the subject, object, legitimation of the articles that received content removal because of the implementation of the Law numbered 5651 that has expanded the scope of the "access blocking" mechanism enabling multiple bodies of the state apparatus to issue such orders

read more Turkey Social media Censorship

RSF 2021 ROUND-UP, journalists detained, killed, held hostage and missing

This overview made by Reporters without Borders collects figures from January to December 2021

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Free to Think 2021. Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project

The seventh installment of an annual report by Scholars at Risk’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project. The report analyzes 332 attacks on higher education communities in 65 countries and territories around the world between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2021

read more Freedom of expression SLAPP Turkey Belarus

MFRR Monitoring Report: January - June 2021

The MFRR monitoring report summarises press and media freedom violations across EU Member States and candidate countries from January 2021 until June 2021. Throughout the reporting period, 272 alerts have been documented, ranging from verbal attacks to legal incidents. 438 individuals or media entities in 26 countries have been subject to one or more press freedom violations

read more Media freedom Safety of journalists

State of SLAPPs in Serbia

The latest report by ARTICLE 19, the American Bar Association (ABA) Center for Human Rights, and the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (NUNS), analyses the provisions that are most commonly misused to file SLAPPs, strategic lawsuits against public participation, in Serbia. The report highlights patterns from multiple cases brought against journalists and activists by public officials and other powerful individuals in the past 10 years

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OSCE South East Europe Media Conference (SEEMC) “Journalism in times of crisis”

The two-day conference was held in a hybrid format in Tirana on 11-12 October 2021, and was co-organized by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) and the OSCE Presence in Albania, with the support of other OSCE field operations in the region

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State of SLAPPs in Spain

A country report published by Article 19, to describe how journalists and media outlets in Spain are facing multiple lawsuits for exposing corruption, reporting on matters of public concern or covering protests

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