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CEMESP's primary goal is to consolidate peace, democracy and development and increase the space for participatory governance of the media in holistic peace building and development at all levels of society through the provision of training and research for the media in peace building and development.

 

CEMESP Takes FOI Discourse to Cape Mount | November 22, 2011

The Center for Media Studies and Peace Building (CEMESP) is furthering campaign on usage of the Liberia Freedom of Information law, by breaking new grounds.

To this end, CEMESP is once again bringing together stakeholders from Bomi and Grand Cape Mount Counties to brainstorm on the effective implementation of the Liberian FOI law.

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VIDEO NEWS: Experts Opinion - Freedom of Information Law
Acces to information Report Aug. 2010 CEMESP Annual Report 2010
Stakeholders Brainstorm On Freedom of Information Law

Stakeholders Brainstorm On Freedom of Information Law

  

Few months ago, the long awaited Freed of Information Bill was passed by an act of the National Legislature

But how the information are assessed; its implementation and misuse is what policy makers and stakeholders in Liberia are concerned with.

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STATEMENT FROM CEMESP
Public Officials Must Accept Criticism

The Center for Media Studies and Peace Building (CEMESP) is calling upon public officials to be mindful that they are responsible to the citizenry and must accept any and all criticisms in good faith.

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The Liberia Freedom of Information Law

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Recognizing that access to information is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution of Liberia and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights;

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FREE EXPRESSION ALERTS
19 December 2011
Clergyman Assaults Journalists, Seizes Camera
Journalist Welemongai Ciapha, of the "Frontpage Africa" newspaper, and photojournalist Molinda Mulbah were, on 14 December 2011, beaten up by Pastor Bethel Onyeneken of the Solution Temple Church and his bodyguards.
28 November 2011
Opposition "Blacklist" Targets Media Houses
The names of some Liberian media houses and personalities have been noted on a blacklist clandestinely disseminated in a newsletter that was purportedly put together and circulated by the opposition political party Congress for Democratic Change (CDC).
10 November 2011
Fire Destroys Radio Station
Following the November 8, 2011 closure of four broadcasting houses, viewed by the government as pro-opposition, a mysterious fire has gutted the studios of the ELWA radio station in Paynesville, outside Monrovia. Sources say the inferno occurred at night.
 
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Fofana Building, Benson Street
(Off Lynch Street) Adjacent Defense Ministry Annex
P.O Box 3480, Monrovia, Liberia
E-mail:cemesp@cemesp-liberia.org / centerforpeacebuilding@yahoo.com
 
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Malcolm W. Joseph
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Tel: +231-6-514357
E-mail:malcolmjoseph2000@yahoo.com / malcolmj@cemesp-liberia.org
 
 
 
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