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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Colombia: Five journalists threatened over reporting on sexual violence in the media
Since March, a wave of allegations of sexual harassment and abuse of power has shaken Colombia’s media industry, in what has been described as a #MeToo moment for Colombian journalism. At the centre of this movement is the Yo Te Creo Colega (“I Believe You, Colleague”) initiative.
Former prime minister released after a year in prison for social media post
While the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the release of Moussa Mara, it condemns his imprisonment for exercising his freedom of expression rights and the government’s use of cybercrime-related laws to detain and jail journalists and critical voices of dissent.
“Al-Jazeera” terminates employment of Palestinian journalists and media workers amid ongoing war
This unfair decision has impacted the lives of many brave journalists and media workers who have endured years of working while facing serious personal risks and security concerns to bring truth to the attention of the world. Al-Jazeera was criticised for such arbitrary actions.
MISA Regional preliminary statement on media freedom, digital rights and access to information in the 2026 Zambia general elections
MISA Regional acknowledges the enactment of the Access to Information (ATI) law and the repeal of criminal defamation of the president as historical milestones. However, these are paper victories that have been neutralised by institutional silence.
After years of litigation aimed at disclosing spyware contracts, court rules in favour of R3D
This decision underscores the importance of transparency regarding the acquisition contracts of surveillance technologies by Executive and State authorities. R3D has developed technical recommendations on how to effectively regulate the acquisition processes of such systems in Mexico.
Activist Moussa Tchangari has spent 616 days in pre-trial detention
The information gathered by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the circumstances of Tchangari’s arrest and detention confirms a significant lack of legal basis.