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Download full textMiranda, Patricia – 1987
In 1985 the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that a Costa Rican statute requiring journalists to be licensed violates the American Convention on Human Rights and, by extension, all human rights conventions. Though press freedom advocates hailed it as a major triumph for freedom of expression, the court's ruling was only advisory and has…
Descriptors: Certification, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
