South America

Broadcasting regulation and access to information are essential to diversity, pluralism and openness, all vital to strengthening democracy. ARTICLE 19 South America is campaigning to strengthen the creation and implementation of access to information laws, ensure pluralism and diversity in broadcasting, and the decriminalisation of defamation.

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  Brazil: Court approves ban on development protestor

  21 May 2013

  ARTICLE 19 is disappointed with the decision of a court in Sao Paulo to…

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  Brazil: Less than 50 per cent of public bodies respect information law one year on

  16 May 2013

  One year after access to information law 12.527/2011 was adopted, a new…

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  Costa Rica Event: Special Rapporteurs to launch Joint Declaration on Digital Terrestrial Transition

  29 Apr 2013

  On 3 May 2013, at the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day International Conference…

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