Press release about ARTICLE 19 and the Yemen Female Media Forum launching a three-day training of media monitors with the aim of identifying gender biases in the Yemeni media and promoting women’s freedom of expression.

Report surveying the status of freedom of expression in Yemen and shedding light on worrying violations of this right particularly targeting the media and women.

Manual for Arab journalists on freedom of information and investigative journalism.

Report giving an overview of some of the progress made, and some of the areas of continuing serious concern regarding the protection and promotion of freedom of expression in Iraq.

Memorandum analysing the 1965 Broadcasting Authority Law against international standards on freedom of expression and public service broadcasting.

Article by Toby Mendel, ARTICLE 19 Law Programme Director, and Dr. Ali Khashan on the legal framework for media in Palestine. This article was originally published in This Week in Palestine (www.thisweekinpalestine.com).

Memorandum analysing the legal framework regulating the media in Iran against international standards on freedom of expression.

Report proposing a media policy for Iraq.

Memorandum analysing the Audiovisual Media Law (Provisional Law No. 71, 2002).

Comments on the draft Palestinian Law on National Council for Audiovisual.

Memorandum analysing the draft 'Press and Publication Law' for the year 2004.

Memorandum analysing two drafts of the Press and Publications Law (also available in Arabic through our Arabic publications page).

A series of briefing notes, originally prepared for the January 2005 elections in Iraq, explaining international law and standards on freedom of expression relevant to the coverage of elections by journalists.

Guidelines govern the rules and practice relating to broadcast coverage of election campaigns, prepared for the January 2005 elections. The guidelines are based on international standards and best comparative practice.

Memorandum on three draft media regulations of Iraq: Code for Media during Elections, Interim Broadcasting Code of Practice, and Interim Media Law.

Memorandum assessing the Afghan Law on Mass Media.

Analysis of and recommendations for current media law, including rights and duties of occupying bodies, as it compares to international standards on freedom of expression and information.

Executive summmary to ARTICLE 19's analysis and recommendations on Iraq's media laws.

Declaration on promoting an independent and pluralistic media in Afghanistan.

Memorandum analysing the Afghan Law of the Press (2002).

Explanatory memorandum on the Afghan Ministry of Information policy direction with regard to the reconstruction and development of media in Afghanistan.

Open letter to Jordan's Parliament regarding its proposed Press and Publications Law.

Memorandum on the the 1995 Press Law of the Palestinian National Authority.

Memorandum on Jordan's proposed 1998 Press and Publications Law.

Memorandum analysing the restrictions on press freedom present in the proposed Organic Law on Information.