The following code of conducts was established by the executive board of the Press Council Thailand B.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, an independent journalist who was one of the investigators, says a lobby of big publishers pushed the Press Council to water down the report.
During the first day of the Conference the delegates were introduced to the practice of the Press Council of Moldova and afterwards exchanged comments on the solutions developed by the Council.
It has not since been amended and remains a law that vests large powers in the hands of the government in terms of nominating the chairman and membership of the Press Council.
Harymurti, the vice-president of the Press Council of Indonesia, described how his country managed, after several unsuccessful attempts, to enact constitutional amendments guaranteeing fundamental democratic principles and in particular freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
Even Vice President Hamid Ansari regretted the development, saying that the Press Council's inability to come out with the report was "a pointer to the problems of self-regulation and the culture of silence in the entire industry when it comes to self-criticism".
It emerged from interviews with media professionals and activists in Thailand that media accountability systems like the Press Council and journalist associations cannot be effective alone in a vacuum in the absence of awareness on the importance of self regulation among journalists and editors.
After the bill was submitted, the Press Council, a government-formed group made up of journalists and government appointees, issued a statement calling for the parliamentary debate to be delayed until an amended version of the law can be drafted with input from media organizations.
The first minister said the Irish Press Council model could be adapted for Scotland.
Former Supreme Court judge and chairman of the country's Press Council, Markandey Katju, fired the first broadside, exhorting journalists to educate themselves more.
In Israel, independent Internet journalist Yoav Yitzhak just announced an initiative to form a new journalists union that will represent reporters and writers who have no voice in the leftist dominated Press Council.
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Council spokesman Rolando Gomez told the Associated Press that Israel's unprecedented absence had put the council in "new territory" because attendance of the Universal Periodic Review was mandatory.
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Gordon Gee also took shots at schools in the Southeastern Conference and the University of Louisville, according to the recording of the December meeting of the school's Athletic Council that The Associated Press obtained under a public records request.
The ordinance also withdraws parts of the original charter giving the press the right to be heard by a Council of Complaints before being punished.
The African Union (AU) decided at an emergency meeting on Thursday to send a high-level delegation to press the UN Security Council to delay the indictment.
He has advised former President Clinton on matters relating to internet commerce and regulation and has addressed Congress, The United Nations, The National Press Corps and the U.S. Council of Foreign Relations.
Though "minor irregularities" were found, they were not significant enough to change the results, the council spokesman said, according to Press TV.
Ms. Quinn's office sent out a press release about 30 minutes before Mr. de Blasio's press conference announcing the council will pass a package of legislation next week to reduce vending fines.
There will also be a janitors "walk-out" at the Westfield Shopping Mall, a march and street festival and an afternoon "bus tour of the San Francisco 1%, " according to a press release Monday from the San Francisco Labor Council, one of the organizations that is part of the effort.
For the referendum, observers from these two bodies have agreed to stringent restrictions imposed by the electoral council, including a ban on talking to the press.
Mr Trichet told the post-meeting press conference that the decision by the 21-strong council had been unanimous.
The head of Rafsanjani's election campaign office said the former president will not object to the Guardian Council's decision, Press TV reported.
Rhondda Cynon Taf press officer Rob Thompson said the council had worked with the relatives to resolve the Blackburn family's "unique" situation.
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Phyllis Kaminsky, former Press Officerfor the White House National Security Council.
It is one thing to press America to work through the Security Council, which it has so far done, and quite another to seek to widen the rifts within the council over Iraq.
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Press for stronger engagement by the Council and other U.N. human rights mechanisms in Haiti, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo and partnered with Afghanistan to build international support for a resolution on preventing attacks on Afghan school children, especially girls.
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The UN press office said Russia, which this month holds the presidency at the Security Council, would hold closed-doors talks on Tuesday morning.
Basically what Ortega did was just copy Chavez's power grabbing methods: pack the Supreme Court with supporters to get favorable rulings, place close allies in the National Electoral Council to prevent opponents from getting on the ballot, suppress the press when all this fails, resort to mobs on the streets to intimidate.
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Ognian Zlatev (founding member of the Bulgarian media self-regulatory body, the National Council for Journalistic Ethics), presents a thorough analysis of press councils in the abovementioned publication (OSCE, 2008, pp. 45-66).
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