IFEX is making a difference worldwide
During a period when the terms ‘record-breaking’ and ‘unprecedented’ too often describe negative developments in our world, and when polarization and divisiveness are on the ascent, the IFEX network demonstrated solidarity, support, compassion, and understanding. In 2024 we countered extraordinary efforts to undermine the free expression and information rights we promote and defend, as well as attacks directed at our own abilities to do this work.
2025 – 2029 Strategic Plan
Our strategic plan guides our collective scope, priorities, and approach from 2025 through 2029, while ensuring we respond to the evolving contexts and needs of IFEX members over the period.
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.
Featured Articles
West Africa pushes for Big Tech to pay the newsroom bill
The executive director of MFWA urges ECOWAS to use its collective regional leverage to compel global tech platforms to fairly compensate West African media.
Information blackout on the mining front
Journalists investigating a fatal mining disaster in eastern Congo were denied access, tightening a dangerous blackout around a mineral-fuelled conflict.
Turkey to introduce compulsory ID verification for all social media users
Free expression activists warn that such a regulation would destroy anonymity on the internet and drive individuals to self-censorship due to the fear of persecution.
IAPA expresses concern over governmental oversight of Ecuadorian newspaper publisher
IAPA joins local organisation and IFEX member Fundamedios in condemning the measure.
Secrecy around migration triggers media reprisals
Journalists covering the forced return of African migrants from the United States now face legal intimidation in Cameroon.
Slovakia: Media freedom groups demand full justice for murdered journalist Jan Kuciak
Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová were assassinated eight years ago. The new retrial of the twice-acquitted but alleged mastermind behind the crime, Marian Kočner, is now underway.