The Joussour Portal belongs to the broad and diverse space of civil society organizations.

The portal undertakes to respect the right of diversity for all civil society organizations and their activists. It is a free open space for the exchange of information, views, experience and expertise.

The goal of publishing is to make content available, to recognize the right to participation and interaction, and to assert that right for participants. The Portal’s Code of Ethics is based on the fact that there should be no restriction to the exchange of opinions, information and all types of creative material, safe for the exceptions expressed by humankind in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the relevant international treaties, especially the conventions on fighting racial discrimination, violence and discrimination on grounds of religion, sex, colour, or race and all forms of discrimination against human beings.

The Joussour Portal also undertakes to comply with any other widely recognized good publishing manners, especially the credibility of the news and information, and the need to distinguish between intellectual disagreements and the language of insult, insolence and abuse.

The remarks above summarize the gist of the Portal’s Code of Ethics, since the information and views may constitute a double-edged sword, in as much as they can foster awareness and knowledge, promote the sharing of experiences, open up the path to progress and enlightenment, and may at the same time constitute a means for publishing falsehoods, sparking off fierce debates, and violating noble human customs and traditions.

Besides this preamble, the right to use the Portal provides for the following provisions:

1- To right to benefit from the content available on the Portal is granted to all;

2- The interactive services are limited to registered organizations and individuals. The Portal’s registration process and the rights thereof are subject to the following rules:

• a) Organization membership: when the organization membership application is filed, the membership shall only be validated after making sure of the soundness of the quality of the applicant and his/her representativeness of the relevant organization;
• b) Individual membership: this membership shall be validated immediately after its electronic submission on the Portal and after making sure of the identity of the applicant, based on the contents of the membership form.
• c) All the Portal’s users shall have the right to comment on and interact with the content published on the Portal, in accordance with the rules hereunder which govern such services;
• d) The organizations taking part in the Portal shall have the right to publish their own materials and literature on the Portal.

3- The right of reply shall be granted to any party subject to an article published on the Portal.

4- The Committee in charge of checking the compliance of content with the Code of Ethics may refrain from publishing posted articles or remove parts thereof in the following cases:

• a) The item has a racist, discriminatory or religious nature that advocates violence or ethnic separation;
• b) The item implies hatred, contains abuse and defamation, or is injurious to the reputation of others;
• c) The item contains discrimination based on sex (especially against women);
• d) The item has a commercial content;
• e) The item is related to news or information of which the reliability is unknown and lacks credibility and clarity;
• f) The publisher is not duly authorized to publish that content.

5- Members shall be solely responsible for the contents they publish, and the Portal disclaims all liability thereto.

6- The Committee in charge of checking the compliance of the content with the Code of Ethics may recommend measures against any non-complying member in case of repeat offending despite warning.