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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Montenegro: Drop criminal complaint against CIN-CG journalists
IFEX and other signatories are calling on Montenegrin authorities to drop the case and protect the journalists’ right to confidential sources.
Ruling party officials storm radio station, assault staff over political comments
The attack on “Obaatanpa Radio” is the latest in a recurring pattern of assaults on media houses in Ghana. The MFWA urges political parties and their supporters to respect the independence of the media and to resolve grievances through lawful and democratic means rather than intimidation or violence.
Nepal: Media editors call for ethical framework on responsible use of AI
Freedom Forum conducted a workshop among editors about the need for responsible, ethical, and reliable use of AI in Nepali journalism.
As funding to independent media declines, gap is filled by authoritarian interests
A new report showed that journalists and activists have lost operational capacity just when repression has intensified, increasing self-censorship and fear.
Rights organizations call on NATO to raise concern over accreditation denials
Groups said NATO risks allowing domestic media pressures to influence what should be an independent credentialing framework.
Journalist faces harassment, reprisals for investigation into alleged corruption
“The use of state institutions to harass a journalist and retaliate against his family constitutes an abuse of power and a violation of press freedom. These practices seek to instill fear as a mechanism of censorship,” said the president of the Inter American Press Association.