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Brazil: 1st National Conference on Communication to Go AheadDate:08/09/2009 On 1 September 2009, after much uncertainty, the national preparatory commission for the first Brazilian Conference on Communication has finally been made official...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: Access to Information Bill Could be Approved by the End of 2009Date:10/08/2009 Following the launch of ARTICLE 19’s review of the new Brazilian Access to Information Bill (see below), Brazilian politicians welcomed ARTICLE 19’s concerns and recommendations on the draft legislation...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: Arson Attack Destroys Radio’s Broadcasting StudioDate:15/02/2010 The studio of radio broadcaster Nova Coari, based in Coari, Amazonas state, was completely destroyed by an arson attack on 8 February 2010...
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Monday, 15 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: ARTICLE 19 Launches Analysis on Draft Access to Information BillDate:06/08/2009 ARTICLE 19 has published its analysis on the long-awaited draft Access to Information Bill was sent by President Lula to Brazilian National Congress in May 2009...
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Thursday, 6 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: Government Promises to Adopt Right to InformationDate:07/04/2009 On 1 April 2009, at the opening session of the International Seminar on Access to Information, the Brazilian Minister of Internal Affairs, Dilma Rousseff, announced that a draft law on the right to information would be sent to Congress by the end of April...
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Tuesday, 7 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BRAZIL: Impunity in case of journalist's murder threatens freedom of expressionDate:18/11/2008 The family of journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho are being harassed a year and a half after he was murdered in Porto Ferreira, in the state of São Paulo...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BRAZIL: Impunity in case of journalist's murder threatens freedom of expressionDate:18/11/2008 The family of journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho are being harassed a year and a half after he was murdered in Porto Ferreira, in the state of São Paulo...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BRAZIL: Impunity in case of journalist's murder threatens freedom of expressionDate:18/11/2008 The family of journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho are being harassed a year and a half after he was murdered in Porto Ferreira, in the state of São Paulo...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: Journalist Luiz Flavio Pinto Ordered to Pay US$15, 000Date:09/07/2009 The Superior Court of the State of Para, in the north of Brazil, ordered journalist Luiz Flavio Pinto to pay approximately US$15, 000 for defaming Romulo Maionara, a deceased local businessman...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: Journalist Luiz Flavio Pinto ordered to pay US$15, 000 for defamationDate:09/07/2009 The Superior Court of the State of Para, in the north of Brazil, ordered journalist Luiz Flavio Pinto to pay approximately US$15, 000 for defaming Romulo Maionara, a deceased local businessman...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: Lula Sends Access to Information Bill to CongressDate:13/05/2009 Brazilian President Lula da Silva today sent the long-awaited draft Access to Information Bill to the Brazilian National Congress...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: National Conference on Communications AnnouncedDate:21/04/2009 On 16 April 2009, Brazilian President Lula da Silva signed a decree announcing the first Brazilian National Conference on Communications...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: Proposed Electoral Law Restricts Internet FreedomDate:15/09/2009 Proposed reform of the Brazilian electoral rules, part of broader reforms in this area being debated by the Senate, would subject internet media to the same rules as traditional broadcasters during electoral campaigns...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: Supreme Court allows publications of civil servants' salariesDate:17/07/2009 On 8 July 2009, the Supreme Court of Brazil held that the mayor of the Municipality of Sao Paulo could order the salary of all municipal civil servants to be put online...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: Supreme Court OKs publication of Civil Servants saliaries'Date:15/07/2009 On 8 July 2009, the Supreme Court of Brazil held that the Mayor of the Municipality of Sao Paulo could order the salary of all municipal civil servants to be put online...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil: Supreme Court Strikes Down Press LawDate:05/05/2009 On 30 April 2009, the Brazilian Supreme Court held that the 1967 Press Law, adopted by a military government, was void as it breached the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazil’s future president Dilma Rousseff promises press freedomDate:02/11/2010 In her acceptance speech in Brasília, President-elect Dilma Rousseff highlighted the role of the press and promised that her future government would guarantee freedom of expression...
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Tuesday, 2 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Brazilian court annuls dictatorship-era press lawDate:05/05/2009 Brazils Supreme Court has struck down a press censorship law enacted during a nearly quarter-century military dictatorship...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BrazilDate:18/10/2010 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedoms of expression in Brazil…
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Monday, 18 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Towards an Internet Free of Censorship: Proposals for Latin AmericaA report by the Universidad de Palermo, Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information.
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Thursday, 2 February 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Journalist who covered corruption murdered in Brazil"New York, February 10, 2012--The body of Brazilian journalist Mario Randolfo Marques Lopes was found on Thursday in the city of Barra do Piraí in Rio de Janeiro state...
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Friday, 10 February 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 14 February 2012