Abstract

DIAZ, Miguel Molina. The incompatibility of the mandatory degree in journalists according to the Interamerican Human Rights Standards: The Ecuadorian case. Iuris Dictio [online]. 2019, n.23, pp.93-106. ISSN 2528-7834.  https://doi.org/10.18272/iu.v23i23.1435.

The article proposes that the requirement of an academic degree to exercise journalism is incompatible with inter-American human rights standards. The author examines article 42 of the Organic Law of Communication (LOC) and the scope of the control of constitutionality and conventionality in the matter of human rights. Article 42 may also entail an illegitimate restriction on freedom of expression and a scenario of prior censorship and could even imply a criminal sanction in a context where there is a definite criterion of the Inter-American Court contrary to the mandatory degree for the journalistic exercise.

Keywords : Freedom of Expression; Mandatory Degree; Human Rights; Journalism; Advisory Opinion 85/5.

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