by SAMSN Admin | Jul 14, 2016 | Access to Information, Right to Information, SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s Parliament debated the Right to Information (RTI) bill for two days (23 – 24 June 2016) before adopting it into law. No member opposed it, although some amendments were done during the debate. If that sounds like an easy passage, it was preceded by over...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 30, 2016 | Access to Information, SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
Right to Information (RTI) legislation was unanimously passed in Sri Lanka’s Parliament last week (June 24) without a vote. It sounds easy and inevitable when framed thus, but that one sentence masks decades of activism and advocacy to pass RTI to no avail, and strong...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 22, 2016 | Censorship, Freedom of Expression, Internet Freedom, Nepal, SAMSN Blog
The Government of Nepal recently approved the Online Media Operation Directives 2016 which grossly violates citizens’ right to freedom of expression and media freedom. It truly reflects government’s attempt to control media. It is quite astonishing that...
by SAMSN Admin | May 27, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, Internet Freedom, SAMSN Blog, South Asia
The Internet is one of the last bastions of freedom – or at least, it was, until most governments discovered it. States have traditionally been inclined to censor the press, regulate TV and radio; they have suppressed publication of books and newspapers and...
by SAMSN Admin | May 11, 2016 | Attack, India, Media Rights Violations, SAMSN Blog
Violence has become pervasive in India during the past few years. Several cases of violence, rape and gang rape have filled up media pages. Media persons too have been targeted violently, most often vindictively. Recently a senior media woman Revati Laul, was attacked...
by SAMSN Admin | May 5, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, Pakistan, SAMSN Blog
Two incidents — one involving a media office in Islamabad and the other a seasoned journalist in Peshawar — in the span of little over a month, earlier this year, offered a glimpse into where the media and its practitioners stand today on the freedom of the press in...
