2025: No ordinary year
Unprecedented threats tested freedom of expression and information rights everywhere: funding cuts, restrictive legislation, toxic online environments, escalating conflicts. Yet the IFEX network answered with collective power. From winning legal battles to protect independent media, shielding leaders under siege, and forging connections that turned crisis into opportunities. Discover how the diversity and reach of the network advanced the work in ways only collective action can.
Advancing press freedom together
Across the globe, IFEX members are doing the vital work of defending journalists, equipping them with the tools and skills they need, and confronting the forces that silence them. IFEX exists to support that work: connecting organizations across borders, sharing knowledge, opening doors to advocacy spaces, and channelling resources to where they are needed most.
IFEX Collaboration Project
By developing action-oriented tools and frameworks, IFEX is helping civil society organisations strengthen collaboration, challenge power imbalances, and build the foundations for more just and inclusive collective work.
Meeting the AI moment
Artificial intelligence is disrupting journalism, boosting efficiency and data analysis while also exacerbating threats and disinformation. The IFEX network is ready for the challenge.
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Daphne Caruana Galizia: CASE members call on Malta to address weak anti-SLAPP law on anniversary of journalist’s murder
Members of CASE, including IFEX, have sent a letter to Prime Minister Robert Abela imploring him to take this opportunity to address the shortcomings of Malta’s anti-SLAPP law and to implement the standards set out by the Council of Europe recommendation
Free expression and rights organisations condemn takeover of “Halk TV”, call for restoration of broadcaster’s editorial independence
The “Halk TV” case is a glaring example of how the authorities use allegations against media owners to bring critical outlets under state control. It comes amid a continuing deterioration of press freedom in Türkiye, where judicial measures increasingly target independent journalism.
Ecuador: IFEX and IFEX-ALC express concern over ruling against Fundamedios
Fundamedios has been compelled to comply with the enforcement of a habeas data judgment, which orders the removal of the information contained in an alert and the publication of an apology. Both measures raise significant questions about the permissible limits of judicial restrictions on freedom of expression.
Court to hear MRA’s case against government, police over safety of female journalists
In the suit, MRA is urging the Court to declare that recurring incidents of harassment, intimidation, assault, unlawful detention, and other violations of the rights of female journalists in Nigeria constitute breaches of their fundamental rights as guaranteed under the Constitution and international norms.
Türkiye: Protect freedom of expression and stop internet censorship now
IFEX joins other signatories in urging social media platforms to take meaningful steps to uphold their human rights responsibilities and avoid contributing to the violations of freedom of expression in Türkiye.
Fear as a form of governance: Digital rights under pressure in Egypt, Iraq, and Tunisia
SMEX’s new report examines the legal architecture of digital control in Egypt, Iraq and Tunisia, and sets out detailed recommendations for civil society organizations, donors, social media companies, each of the three governments, and the public.