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Media: Are there positive measures for promoting or restrictions for Migrant and minority media?

Code:
RED118
Key Area:
Public Life, Culture, Sport & Media
Strand(s):
Discrimination, Equality
24/02/2012 - 22:13
Short Answer

There are no positive measures for promoting migrant and minority media.

Qualitative Info

On the contrary, there are legal restrictions for migrant and minority media.

As Pavlou, M. (2010), Complementary Data Collection: Contribution to the FRA Annual Report 2010, i-red/HLHR-KEMO reports:

[The use of specific languages in media] is rather penalized than encouraged. As the ECRI noted in its fourth report on Greece, Law 3592/2007 on the “Concentration and Licensing of Media Enterprises and Other Provisions” adopted on 16 July 2007 provides that the main broadcasting language for radio programmes should be Greek. A number of other requirements on the minimum human and financial resources required to obtain a licence risk endangering smaller regional and minority media.[1] According to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Mr. Miklos Haraszti, who intervened in 2007, this law “endangers pluralism by putting a high threshold for minority, community or low-cost broadcasters”.[2]



[1] ECRI Report on Greece, Fourth Monitoring Cycle, 15.09.2009, p.48  http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Greece/GRC-CbC-IV-2009-031-ENG.pdf.

[2] OSCE Press release: New radio licensing law in Greece restricts minority media, says OSCE media freedom watchdog, available at: http://www.osce.org/fom/item_1_25793.html (27.07.2007). Similar reactions were observed from the Thrace Muslim minority representatives and the press.

 

Data Several newspapers based on migrant initiatives
Groups affected/interested Migrants, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities
Type (R/D) Nationalism
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas Media
External Url http://www.i-red.eu/?i=institute.en.publications.210
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