Oct 24, 2024 · Concerns were raised at the 57th UN Human Rights Council about repression in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, urging accountability and safeguarding free expression.

Nov 1, 2024 · Two recent reports highlight escalating threats and impunity of perpetrators targeting journalists in Lebanon, underscoring the urgent need for protections and the vital role of independent journalism.

Oct 24, 2024 · While investigations into women's rights and gender-based violence appear to be taken more seriously in the wake of #MeToo, violent repression of the journalists who cover these issues continues.

Jan 24, 2025 · IFEX advocates for the free expression rights of all, including media workers, citizen journalists, activists, artists, scholars.

INTRODUCTION The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) monitors press and media freedom violations in European Union (EU) Member States and candidate countries. This monitoring report covers the first six months of 2024. On our monitoring database, Mapping Media Freedom (MapMF), 756 press freedom violations (alerts) have been documented for this period, im-pacting 1,212 media-related persons or ...

Aug 21, 2024 · A new study from 7amleh reveals how online harassment and cyber surveillance of young Palestinians has sparked a chilling rise in self-censorship. This statement was originally published on 7amleh.org on 20 August 2024. 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has published a new study titled “Digital Security Among Palestinian Youth: A Study on Threats and Challenges ...

Nov 19, 2024 · In the face of the growing crackdown on press freedom sparked by Venezuela’s presidential election, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and seven partner organisations (including IFEX-ALC) have joined forces to expose the harrowing obstacles currently facing the Venezuelan press. The report found over 228 violations of press freedom, and notes that at least eight journalists remain arbitrarily ...

Apr 14, 2024 · (THE “CORPORATION”) This By-law No. 1, is a by-law relating generally to the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation. The Corporation is hereafter referred to as “IFEX”.

Decree 147 expands government control over access to information on the internet for vaguely defined reasons of “national security” and “social order”.

Oct 22, 2024 · "Many independent media in Paraguay are nonprofits that rely on international funding and this law would force them to disclose information and data about people who work for them could seriously hamper their work" - CPJ