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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AFJC records over 100 media freedom violations in Afghanistan during the fifth year of Taliban rule
The Afghanistan Journalists Center has documented at least 102 cases of media freedom violations over the past 12 months.
New 7amleh report examines the online suppression of pro-Palestine solidarity across Europe
“The suppression of pro-Palestine expression across Europe is part of a broader pattern in which platform policies, state pressure, and legal frameworks combine to restrict legitimate speech and access to information” – 7amleh.
SEENPM: Alpac Capital takeover of Adria News Network must be closely scrutinised
SEENPM said the takeover raises a wider issue of national and cross-border media concentration.
Veteran Haitian journalist Wesly Renaud Jean abducted, ransom requested
Jean is a veteran journalist and has co-hosted the major morning news program on “Radio-TV Métropole: for over 10 years. A witness reported his kidnapping to colleagues, though it is unclear if his abduction is related to his work.
Meta’s $17 billion settlement is a bad deal for teens and all social media users
David Greene of the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes that the settlement normalizes age gating and age assurance for millions of internet users.
ACHPR calls on African countries to investigate misuse of court process to silence journalists, other public watchdogs
The Commission expressed concern that human rights defenders, journalists, whistleblowers, community activists, lawyers, and opposition figures are particularly vulnerable to SLAPPs, especially when they engage in advocacy relating to human rights, climate and the environment, corruption, corporate accountability, labour rights, and sexual and gender-based violence.