This section includes perspectives on how communication rights might be realized at different levels.

Centre for Communication Rights - Debate

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Turns 20
Progress, challenges and lessons learnt for the realization of gender equality, the empowerment of women, and the human rights of women and girls in the post-2015 context are presented in this report prepared by UN Women.

by UNWomen
2015
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The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles for the 21st Century

This book from the Poynter Institute offers an evolved set of guidelines and principles for journalists, students, and mass communicators, with chapters by 14 of media’s top practitioners.

by Kelly McBride, Tom Rosenstiel
2013
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Anything you can do, I can do better? Professional journalists on citizen journalism in six European countries
This article, based on 63 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with professional journalists in six European countries, is concerned with how journalists answer the question: How is what you do different from what citizen journalists do?

by Henrik Örnebring
2013
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Freedom of Expression Revisited: Citizenship and Journalism in the Digital Era
Critical perspectives on experiences and conceptions of freedom of expression and the media in contemporary communication societies.

by Ulla Carlsson
2013
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Communication rights ten years after the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): Civil society perceptions

Civil society perceptions of the changes that have taken place over the ten years since the WSIS Declaration of Principles was adopted in 2003.

by APC/Hivos
2013
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Investigating Evolving Discourses on Human Rights in the Digital Age
This article investigates how human rights in the digital age can be considered as an overall frame accommodating fundamental rights and freedoms that relate to communication processes, and related challenges.

by Claudia Padovani, Francesca Musiani, Elena Pavan
2010
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The Negotiation of Meanings in the Evening News
This article discusses the importance of examining gender barriers in the deliberative processes of the public sphere. A participatory democracy is not feasible without the equal inclusion of women’s voices.

by Paula Lobo, Rosa Cabecinhas
2010
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Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada

Research into and analysis of the state of communication rights and the right to communicate in Canada undertaken with the ultimate view of taking action to improve it.

by Marc Raboy, Jeremy Shtern
2010
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The Right to Information: A Global Perspective

This book provides an overview of the right to information, focusing on the trends, opportunities and threats which activists, bureaucrats, politicians and ordinary people will find useful.

by K. M. Shrivastava
2009
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The Right to Information in Latin America

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, including Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Uruguay.

by Toby Mendel
2009
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