By Gilbert Sendugwa As we commemorate the first International Day for Universal Access to Information today, September 28, 2020, I reflect back to 2010 when Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) and its African Platform on Access to Information Partners started a campaign for such a day. We were inspired to start the campaign because […]
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UNESCO has published two policy briefs that offer insights into COVID-19-related disinformation. It notes that COVID-19 has led to a parallel pandemic of disinformation that directly impacts lives and livelihoods around the world. Falsehoods and misinformation have proven deadly and sowed confusion about life-saving personal and policy choices. The first policy paper, Disinfodemic: Deciphering COVID-19 […]
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This article was originally published on unesco.org. More than a thousand journalists were killed between 2006 and 2017, according to a UNESCO report published ahead of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, 2 November. Last year, the percentage of journalists murdered in countries free of armed conflict (55%) exceeded that of journalists […]
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28 September is International Day for Universal Access to Information. In commemoration of the day, UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, released the following message: In a globalizing world, access to information is vital to build more inclusive sustainable knowledge societies. This is the message of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI), focusing on the key […]
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“Keeping journalists safe can be a difficult proposition,” the introduction to a new publication by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) states. To ignite action against threats to free media, UNESCO recently published ‘An Attack on One is an Attack on All’, a report on “innovative, successful ways media companies, individual journalists […]
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UNESCO has released a new comprehensive study of changes that impact on legal frameworks that support protection of journalistic sources in the digital age.
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