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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Retired Saudi soldier summoned and threatened for posting online request for financial help
GCHR condemns in the strongest terms the systematic policies of repression adopted by the Presidency of State Security, which is aimed at monitoring online activism and imprisoning online activists for expressing their peaceful views about public affairs in their country.
Guatemala: Rights organisations call for guarantees that journalists in exile can safely return
Over the past decade, Guatemalan journalists investigating corruption, abuses of power and other matters of public interest have come under attack. Many were forced to leave the country, and legal and security risks prevent them from returning safely.
ECOWAS court declares internet access a right, awards journalist compensation
Jide Oyekunle had claimed that his human rights were violated on August 1, 2024, while he was covering a peaceful protest as a journalist. The police allegedly assaulted him, seized his mobile phone, and claimed that he was not authorized to perform the live recording of the event.
Pakistan Press Foundation warns of intensified disinformation following issuance of the Foreign Media Facilitation Guidelines, 2026
Pakistan Press Foundation said the guideline could have an adverse effect on press freedom and the ability of the media to report.
Governments should protect environmental defenders from violence and repression
Human Rights Watch warns that “environmental defenders face governments’ mounting efforts to criminalize peaceful protest.”
CPJ, IAPA warn broadcast fee proposal will force Costa Rican news outlets off air
CPJ and IAPA urge that any fee tied to spectrum use should be based on objective, technical and proportional criteria, and should not create conditions that force stations off the air.