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		<title>Forthcoming event: Media Freedom and the Rule of Law in Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A debate on the Strasbourg Human Rights court’s protections of the journalists’ work Thomson Reuters building, London – 3 May (World Press Freedom Day) 18.30 – 20.00; registration required]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish draft law on transparency of information should be widely improved, warn experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After years of pressure by information freedom advocates, the Spanish government has finally decided to end with its legal vacuum in terms of access to public data. Mariano Rajoy’s cabinet approved a draft law on 26March called Law on transparency, access to information and good governance, whose period of public consultation has recently ended. Although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The lives of two symbols of the Syrian resistance in jeopardy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syrian authorities have arrested two of the most relevant figures of the Syrian protests: the journalist Ali Mahmoud Othman and the activist Noura Al-Jizawi. Ali Othman, known in Damascus as “the grandfather”, was arrested on 28 March, near the town of Aleppo. According to reliable sources, he is probably being tortured. He was a vegetable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Previous censorship and legalized detentions increase Chinese concerns along with tighter Internet control</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly known because of their practices against media freedom -particularly websites and social networks- China is developing further mechanisms to control independent publications. The conference that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao delivered on 14 March 2012, which was the official closure of the annual National People’s Congress, has raised two new issues, labeled by Reporters Sans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concerns about freedom in Azerbaijan in the run-up to the Eurovision Song Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Azerbaijan, which will host the popular Eurovision Contest at the end of May, is showing negative signs in relation to freedom of expression and respect for Human Rights. Manifestations in the capital of the country, Bakou, to demand greater media freedom are being repressed and activists can face prison sentences of up to ten days. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Tunisian Constitution should foster media freedom, says Article 19</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tunisian new constitutional text, which is being drafted, might represent a crucial opportunity for the country to fully commit to media freedom as well as serve as example for the rest of the Arab states moving towards democracy. This is what Article 19, an international human rights organization, has stated in its recent report on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria: Fears for the fate of 8 activists arrested in February</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London-based organization Article 19 has made public its fears for the condition of Mr. Mazen Darwish, head of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of expression (SCM), and part of the SCM staff. Darwish and his 7 colleagues were arrested on 16 February 2012 by a group of Air Force Intelligence (AFI) members, who assaulted SCM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kazakhstan takes a step towards media freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.cfom.org.uk/2012/03/kazakhstan-takes-a-step-towards-media-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cfom.org.uk/2012/03/kazakhstan-takes-a-step-towards-media-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kazakhstan’s authorities have finally released Igor Vinyavsky, the Chief Editor of Vzglyad newspaper, who was jailed in January for allegedly inciting population to rebel against the government. Officers of the National Security Committee assaulted Vzglyad’s offices on 23 January 2011 seizing several materials, like computers and financial records, and arresting Vinyavsky. Vzglyad’s assault meant the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media Freedom Papers (MFP) Number 2 and 3: Freedom of information and media plurality. A tool against inequality</title>
		<link>http://www.cfom.org.uk/2012/03/media-freedom-papers-mfp-number-2-and-3-freedom-of-information-and-media-plurality-a-tool-against-inequality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cfom.org.uk/2012/03/media-freedom-papers-mfp-number-2-and-3-freedom-of-information-and-media-plurality-a-tool-against-inequality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cfom.org.uk/?p=1165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Andrés Cañizalez &#160; Cañizalez, director of the Venezuelan chapter of the Press and Society Institute (IPYS), examines in the first paper the links between media freedom and poverty, and the way mass media should work to decrease social inequalities. The second one is focused on the case of Venezuela, a country in which more media pluralism is needed to foster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman discrimination in Bangladeshi media</title>
		<link>http://www.cfom.org.uk/2012/03/independent-newspaper-editor-arrested-in-kazakhstan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cfom.org.uk/2012/03/independent-newspaper-editor-arrested-in-kazakhstan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although mass media in Bangladesh has improved significantly in the last decade -thanks to a new generation of  committed journalists- the country still has a long way to go. One of the main concerns is the lack of female media workers. Only 7% of the industry are women and just 0.6% held positions in editorial [...]]]></description>
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