SECTOR 1 Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 2.1 1.4 Government makes every effort to honour regional and international instruments on freedom of expression and the media. It is one thing to ratify regional and international legal instruments. However, practising what such legal instruments demand is quite another. It was noted that as part of its pretensions to hegemony the government likes to be held in good regard by the wider international community and that the ratification of these instruments aims at achieving precisely that goal. However, panel members noted that a different kind of behaviour may be observed in practice, where the government not always abides by international conventions ratified and incorporated into the Angolan legal order. Incidents such as attempts to block the distribution of the weekly newspaper O País and the refusal to grant Rádio Eclésia the right to broadcast in other parts of the country besides Luanda were given as examples of the difficulties faced in the exercise of press freedom. All of these incidents occurred despite the fact that the Angolan state ratified most international legal instruments dealing with these matters. Among the international instruments ratified by the government of Angola the following stand out: • SADC Protocol on Education, Culture and Sport; • The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights; • Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and • The Windhoek Declaration. 82 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER ANGOLA 2010