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- Address by Mrs Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the University of Queensland centenary Oration, Opening Ceremony for World Press Freedom Day Celebrations
Irina Bokova
2010; 16 p. - Address by Mrs Irina Bokova,Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, Prize Award Ceremony and Conference Closing
Irina Bokova
2010; 7 p. - Address by Professor Michael Bromley, Conference Convenor and Head of the University of Queensland School of Journalism and Communication. World Press Freedom Prize Award Ceremony and Conference Closing Ceremony
Professor Michael Bromley, Conference Convenor and Head of the University of Queensland School of Journalism and Communication
2010 - Address delivered by Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley, AO, Governor of Queensland
Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley, AO, Governor of Queensland
2010 - Background Paper on Freedom of Information: Current Status, Challenges and Implications for News Media
Edetaen Ojo, Executive Director of Media Rights Agenda, Nigeria, and Convenor of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX)
2010 - Background Paper: Freedom of Information as a Tool for Empowerment. Good Institutions, the Public Sphere and Media Literacy
Ulla Carlsson, Director, Nordicom, University of Gothenburg
2010 - Background Paper: The Decline of “News” and the Rise of Stakeholder Media
Mark Lee Hunter, Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, and Maître de Conférénces associé of the Institut français de Presse/Université de Paris II
2010 - Background Paper: Transparency, accountability and the fight against corruption: On the leading edge
Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Secretary of Russian Union of Journalists
2010 - Community broadcasting: good practice in policy, law and regulation
Steve Buckley, President, World Association for Community Radio Broadcasters
2008 - Conference Programme
2010 available in fr - Contribution by Sophie Foster, Associate Editor, Fiji Times
Sophie Foster, Associate Editor, Fiji Times
2010 - Contribution to the Session on The Right to Know in a Digital Age
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Editor-in-chief, Der Standard, Austria
2010 - Ethical Journalism Initiative
Aidan White, General-Secretary, International Federation of Journalists, Belgium
2010 - Free Media and Freedom of Information
Oliver Spencer, Program officer, ARTICLE 19
2010 - Freedom of information – challenges, and the way forward
Chronox Manek, Chief Ombudsman, Papua New Guinea
2010 - Freedom of Information: Current Status, Challenges and Implications for News Media
Professor John McMillan, Australian Information Commissioner Designate 2010 - Freedom of Information: The Right to Know (Concept Paper)
2010; 8 p. available in fr - Full effect of the right to know in Latin America: a process of cultural transformation
Álvaro Herrero, Executive Director, Association for Civil Rights, Argentina 2010 available in es - IFJ Report on Hacking Row Exposes Weakness of UK Press Complaints Commission
International Federation of Journalists
2010 - Information Freedom, a policy of reform (Excerpts of Speech delivered at Session on Freedom of Information as a Tool for Empowerment)
Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig, Cabinet Secretary and Special Minister of State, Federal Government of Australia
2010 - Journalists under Pressure: Experiences from the Front Line
Dan Southerland, Executive Editor, Radio Free Asia
2010 - Journalists under Pressure: Experiences from the Front Line. World Press Freedom Day Report
Nigel Brennan, freelance photojournalist, Australia
2010 - Media in Indonesia: No single day without news on corruption Atmakusumah Astraatmadja, Media observer, columnist, lecturer in journalism and press ethics, former chairman of the independent Indonesian Press Council
2010 - Nepal: Freedom of Information as a Tool For Empowerment, Enabling Protection And Achievement Of Other Rights
Taranath Dahal, Chairperson of the Freedom Forum and of the and of the Citizen's Campaign for Right to Information, Nepal
2010 - Open Letter on Freedom of Information- Iraq
Prepared by Iraqi Press Advocacy Groups in the framework of WPFD celebrations in Baghdad. Read out loud at the WPFD event in Brisbane by Zuhair Al-Jezairy, Director, Aswat al-Iraq
2010 - Opening Remarks by Cameron Dick MP, Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations, Government of Queensland
Cameron Dick MP, Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations, Government of Queensland
2010 - Pacific media freedom soup: HIV/AIDS, media regionalism, and the right to know
Lisa Williams-Lahari, founding member and Projects leader of Pacific WAVE (Women Advancing a Vision of Empowerment) Media Network
2010 - Paper prepared for the Session on The Right to Know in a Digital Age
Guy Berger, Head of the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University
2010 - Plenary Panel I: Freedom of Information: Current status, Challenges and Implications for News Media. Thoughts from the Panel
Toby Mendel, Centre for Law and Democracy
2010 - Post-soviet countries: reviving mass media as a propaganda tool
Rozlana Taukina, President of the Journalists in Danger Fund
2010 - Programme
2010; 1 p. available in fr - Speech by Aidan White on Indonesia
Presentation to Bali Democracy Forum Workshop, December 9th 2009 Aidan White
2010 - The Right to Know in a Digital Age
Francis Herman, Former General Manager, Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Adviser, Vanuatu Broadcasting Corporation
2010 - The Right to Know in Africa
Robert Mukombozi, Investigative Journalist/Conflict Reporter, Rwanda 2010 - The Right to Know in Palestine
Valentina Al-Ama, Communication and Project Director, Ma'an Network, Palestine
2010 - Threats to Media Freedom and Freedom of Information in the South Pacific
Susuve Laumaea, Interim Chair, Pacific Freedom Forum, Papua New Guinea
2010 - Threats to Media Freedom and Freedom of Information in the South Pacific Marie-Noelle Ferrieux Patterson, President, Transparency Vanuatu 2010
- Threats to media freedom in the South Pacific
Savea Sano Malifa, Samoa Observer
2010 - Towards a third generation of right to freedom of information activism
Dr. Agnes Callamard, ARTICLE 19 executive director 2008 - Whose Media, Whose Freedom?
P V Satheesh, Director, Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, India
2010