Daily Monitor
Friday May 14 2021
Summary
Indeed this charter is the bulwark of media freedom that we enjoy (or aspire to) today, having been specifically [provided for under Article 19.
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When the general assembly of the recently formed United Nations Organisation (UNO) adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on December 10, 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France, the charter became the framework that would ensure the rights and freedoms of all human beings.
Indeed this charter is the bulwark of media freedom that we enjoy (or aspire to) today, having been specifically [provided for under Article 19.
A lot has changed since then and the broad 30 articles of the charter have birthed secondary rights, so to speak, arising out of today’s peculiar circumstances. One of these emerging rights is the “right to be forgotten” or the “right to erasure”.