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UN Sustainable Development Goals 2015 Should Include Freedom of Expression

Press freedom, access to information and freedom of expression are essential “enablers of sustainable development”, writes the “synthesis” report on the UN’s post-2015 development agenda,...

SEENPM is present at the regional Media Forum

It's a full house at the South East European Media Forum in Skopje, Macedonia. The theme of this year's SEEMF is "Media in South East...

Letter from EU to Hungarian PM cannot be Qualified as Private Data Insist Media Freedom Organisations

13 January 2012, Berlin/Budapest/Madrid – Three international media freedom and human rights organisations today call on the Hungarian Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér to...

Global Monitoring Finds Widespread Violations of Right to Information

4 October 2011, Ottawa - The largest global monitoring of the right of access to information in practice, the Ask Your Government! 6 Question Campaign has...

New One-stop Portal Makes Requests for EU Documents Easy

Brussels/Madrid, 28 September 2011 – On 28 September 2011, the 9th International Right to Know Day, pro-transparency human rights group Access Info Europe will...

IFEX Network Now 95 Members Strong

Beirut, 1 June 2011 - Seven new members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) were welcomed this week at its general meeting...

Hungary: New constitution is serious threat to right to information

Budapest/Berlin/Madrid, 25 April 2011 – Hungary’s president Pál Schmitt signed the new Hungarian constitution which abolishes independent oversight of the public’s right to know. Human...

IV South East Europe Media Forum

The WAZ Media Group, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation (KAS) and the South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), in cooperation with the Central European Initiative (CEI) and...

SEENPM General Assembly Discusses Network Strategy in Maastricht

Maastricht, 6 June 2010 - The South East European Network for Professionalization of Media and its member organizations played a unique catalyst role in...

Commitment to Review Counter-Terror Laws in Europe

7 October, 2009, Madrid  - Upon the initiative of Access Info,  40 organisations  sent an open letter to the Council of Europe's new Secretary General Thorbjoern...
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