INTERNATIONAL LAW ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: MEDIA LAW ASPECTS

Abstract

The fragmentary nature of international law together with the pursue of vital national interests and along with the conflicting international political blocks has already minimized the effectiveness of law at the international level, added complexities for the future of sustainable development of the world countries and deepened the chain of inequalities among the nations. These difficulties led international scholars to propose to review the very nature of the current bureaucratic international law institutions and to initiate the examination of the new legal field — international sustainable development law in order to stand against all harmful challenges and with the purpose to draw the path for the development of all legal areas. Although the normative basis of international sustainable development law is mostly comprised of non-systemized “soft law” norms, we have UN 2030 Agenda, New Delhi Principles and the activity reports of the UN International Law Commission where there are direct highlights about the role of media law, rights of journalists, freedom of expression and information, Internet freedom and access to the Internet. Yet, there are no enough academic works on the importance of media law regulations for the sustainable development goals and there is a significant need to look to the international sustainable development law from the angle of media law rules.