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
Yemen: Inside Aden’s secret detention system
A new report documents how STC and UAE-backed forces conduct arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and torture in Aden’s secret detention sites, holding people incommunicado while families are left without answers.
Syria: First year of transition marred by repression of minorities and expression
PEN International says systematic persecution of minorities, rising hate speech, and attacks by government forces and affiliated militias have created a suffocating environment for writers, with entrenched impunity countrywide.
Venezuela: Journalist Rory Branker charged on five counts the day after his liberation
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) recently received information that, the day after his release, the journalist was formally charged with at least five offences and placed under restrictive measures.
Mali tightens the noose on dissenting media
Malian journalist Youssouf Sissoko remains behind bars awaiting trial after authorities criminalized a published opinion piece deemed insulting to neighbouring Niger’s military ruler.
Kenyan court reins in censorship
Kenya’s Court of Appeal has drawn a constitutional line against coercive film regulation by delivering a win for artists while leaving broader censorship intact.
IFEX calls upon Ugandan authorities to lift suspension imposed on civil society during the elections
IFEX is alarmed by the ongoing suspension of the operating licences and frozen bank accounts of several CSOs in Uganda, including IFEX member Human Rights Network for Journalists – Uganda (HRNJ-U), ostensibly due to politically motivated investigations initiated just before the presidential elections on 15 January.