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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Three journalists still detained seven months after being charged under Niger’s cybercrime law
The case stems from the circulation on social media of an invitation to a press briefing by the Solidarity Fund for the Safeguarding of the Homeland, a public fund set up by the military authorities after the July 2023 coup to raise money for the state security forces.
Gen Z and restrictions on freedom of expression in Egyptian universities
A paper by the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) aims to provide an analytical reading of students’ perception of universities, and to highlight the alternative pathways they pursue to sustain forms of participation and collective engagement.
Online violence, misinformation, and digital safety drive urgent regional advocacy action
Groups across Europe and Central Asia agree that addressing online harms requires a combination of regulatory reform, digital literacy initiatives, institutional accountability, and sustained cross-border cooperation.
Malaysia: Civil society demands that the government commit to a rights-focused FOI framework
Groups call for an effective, progressive, and rights-focused FOI Act and framework.
When censorship becomes a crime: Free expression in systems of gender persecution and apartheid
This legal brief explores the central role that freedom of expression violations play in maintaining systems of gender persecution.
EU: 37 civil society organisations call for stronger rule of law action from the European Commission
IFEX has joined 36 other civil society, human rights, journalism and media support organisations in a statement to the European Commission, calling for more direct and verifiable measures to uphold, protect and restore the rule of law within the EU and in candidate countries.