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African Charter on Broadcasting

The African Charter on Broadcasting serves as a modern blueprint for policies and laws determining the future of broadcasting and information technology in Africa.
Why the charter was developed?

• Africa was the birthplace of the Windhoek Declaration on Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press in 1991. Despite this, the region remains an international focal point of media freedom violations.

• The right to communicate is almost non-existent for the majority population.

• Since the adoption of the Declaration, though, there have been gains in media freedom in Africa.

• In some nation states, the media has begun to take up its role as a cornerstone of democracy and source of balanced information

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Introduction to Charter
Sections of the Charter
Brochure
Charter in French
Charter Sections in Swahili
Charter Sections in Portugese
African charter on broadcasting

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