Media
Journalists Hold Out For Better Media Laws
Friday, April 2nd, 2010DILI, May 15, 2009 (IPS) – Journalists in East Timor are anxiously waiting for a set of media laws to be revised after a negative reaction to a draft that was circulated in March.
Portuguese Lawyer Isabel Duarte was hired to draft the laws by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on behalf of the government.
She [...]
Draft laws threaten freedom of the press in East Timor
Friday, April 2nd, 2010AFP, March 26, 2009 — A set of media laws drafted for the tiny Asian nation of East Timor has been criticised by local journalists, who say the proposed legislation could undermine the free press in the young country.
Provisions to set up a system of licensing reporters and a media council with the power to [...]
Journalists denounce draft media laws
Friday, April 2nd, 2010ABC Radio Australia, March 24, 2009
Local journalists in East Timor are having a difficult time making sense of five media laws drafted for the country by a Potugese lawyer contracted by the United Nations.
Analysts say that the media laws are too complex and contradictory to have any positive impact while some members of the press [...]