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"States are under a positive obligation to create a general enabling environment for seeking, receiving and imparting information and ideas (freedom of expression), including through the following measures: (…) v. ensuring that defamation laws are exclusively civil rather than criminal in nature and do not provide for excessive damages awards."

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UN (OHCHR), OAS, ACHPR, OSCE: Joint Declaration on Media Independence and Diversity in the Digital Age, para. 1.a.v

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Joint Declaration on Media Independence and Diversity in the Digital Age

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There should be a range of remedies available in the case of defamation, respecting the requirement that all remedies be proportional.