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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Journalist and author freed after eight years in prison following presidential pardon
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the release of journalist René Capain Bassène. His prolonged detention raised serious questions about due process, the integrity of evidence, and the treatment of journalists covering sensitive conflicts.
Ashura season marked by escalating violations, restrictions on freedom of religion and assembly
Contrary to what the authorities describe as merely regulatory measures, the actions imposed this year have taken a more restrictive form. And they include arrests and the use of force against citizens who objected to the targeting of their religious manifestations.
AFJC condemns Taliban ban on smartphones, calls it a threat to press freedom and access to information
This measure appears to be part of a broader effort to tighten control over communication channels and suppress independent reporting.
Lithuania: Concerns remain over law on public broadcaster LRT
Civil society groups call on authorities to ensure all recommendations of the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission on the Law on Lithuanian National Radio and Television are addressed.
World Refugee Day 2026: Supporting journalists in exile amid transnational repression
Journalists are being pushed into exile for a range of reasons, including conflict, widescale repression, targeted threats, or legal pressure.
Civil liberties groups and privacy experts denounce the Liberal government’s shut down of much-needed debate on dangerous state surveillance bill C-22
Twenty-one civil liberties organizations, privacy groups and individual experts are deeply alarmed that, late last night, the federal government cut off debate at the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on the very controversial Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act.