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MISA LESOTHO

MISA Lesotho has continued to run the Speak Out and ASK campaigns, which among other things, has led to the tabling before Parliament, of the Access and Receipt of Information draft bill of 2000. It is now incumbent upon the national chapter, alongside its cooperating partners, to bring

before MPs the necessary amendments to the bill in question.

The national chapter is also running the campaign for the transformation of state media into public service broadcasters and has linked up with MPs recognized as sympathetic to the cause of media freedom and freedom of expression to bring on board, the necessary amendments to the Lesotho

Broadcasting Corporation bill, which government has tabled before Parliament, but which, does not conform to the internationally recognized norms of public service broadcasting such as the African Charter on Broadcasting, the SADC Declaration on ICTs, the SADC Protocol on Culture, Information and Sports, the Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa, as adopted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, etc.

MISA Lesotho has submitted to the ministry of communications, science and technology, its position paper with regard to public service broadcasting, which reads as follows:

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