



Authored by: Toby Mendel
Date of Publication : October 2000
Pages: v + 74
Price: On request
Published by: UNESCO & AIBD
Contents
Introduction
Australia
Canada
France
Japan
South Africa
United Kingdom
Comparative Table
Comparative Analysis
Appendix A: PSB's Operating Income Per Capita
Websites of Public Service Broadcasting Organizations
Mr. Toby Mendel
Toby Mendel is the Head of Law Programme at ARTICLE 19, a leading international human rights NGO based in London. In that capacity he has worked extensively on media issues in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, advising governments and local NGOs, critiquing laws and taking cases to both national and international bodies. As Head of Law Programme he has worked closely with UNESCO on a number of issues, for example providing expert advice on broadcasting laws to the authorities and other interested parties in Indonesia. He has also published widely and contributed to numerous ARTICLE 19 publications, including on freedom of information, defamation, the rights of the child, public service broadcasting and false news.
Prior to joining ARTICLE 19, he had extensive experience both in human rights and international development, for example as a senior human rights consultant with Oxfam Canada, as a human rights policy analyst at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). He also worked on land and environmental issues with indigenous peoples in the Philippines, taught in Zimbabwe and campaigned against apartheid in South Africa.
He has an honours BA in mathematics from McGill University, a first class LLB (law) from Dalhousie University, and is currently completing a PhD in international refugee law at Cambridge University.
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