Press release calling on French President Nicolas Sarkozy not to underestimate human rights violations in Tunisia as he seeks to create a Union for the Mediterranean.

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.

Petition signed by 40 civil society organisations from around the world, calling on the Human Rights Council to protect the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and reject the recent proposed amendment.

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.

Paper presented on a panel on Art Legislation and Freedom of Expression as part of a larger two-day symposium on Art and Censorship.

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.

Report on the findings from a workshop held on gender sensitive reporting in Iraq.

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

Dr. Hossein Bagher Zadeh, an acclaimed journalist, human rights campaigner and political commentator, gave the following address at the Voices from Iran cultural evening hosted by ARTICLE 19’s Middle East and North Africa programme (MENA) on September 27, 2006.

This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.

Joint statement from ARTICLE 19 and Amnesty International concerning the proposed amendments to Decree No. 18 of the year 1973 of Public Meetings, Processions and Gatherings.

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.

Joint statement by Amnesty International and ARTICLE 19 on the defamation charges brought against human rights lawyer Dr Muhamad Mugraby.

Report proposing a media policy for Iraq.

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

Recommendations on how to strengthen the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression (also available in Arabic through our Arabic publications page).

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

Memorandum on Jordan's draft law on Guarantee of Access to Information.

Memorandum on Jordan's Protection of State Secrets and Documents Provisional Law No. (50)

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

Constitutional drafting provisions on freedom of expression based on international and comparative standards (also available in Arabic through our Arabic publications page).

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

Study to inform and stimulate debate around the new Iraqi constitutional provisions on freedom of expression.

Memorandum analysing the proposal for a draft law on access to information, including suggestions for improvement to increase transparency and accountability in public life.

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.

Advice to the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Aid on the legitimacy of custodial sanctions for defamation under international human rights law submitted by ARTICLE 19 and Interights.

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

Report on the effects of media censorship by an authoritarian regime; namely, the silencing of dissent and creation of a police state.

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

Press release about the deteriorating state of free expression in Yemen after a Yemeni court sentenced artist Fahd al-Qarni to 18 months in prison and imposed a fine of YR 500,000.