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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CPJ, IAPA warn broadcast fee proposal will force Costa Rican news outlets off air
CPJ and IAPA urge that any fee tied to spectrum use should be based on objective, technical and proportional criteria, and should not create conditions that force stations off the air.
Pakistan Press Foundation warns of intensified disinformation following issuance of the Foreign Media Facilitation Guidelines, 2026
Pakistan Press Foundation said the guideline could have an adverse effect on press freedom and the ability of the media to report.
Civil society organisations present their assessment of the electoral process
MISA-Zambia and other members of the network expressed concern over misinformation, access to voting, and harassment of the media, particularly women journalists, during polling.
Governments should protect environmental defenders from violence and repression
Human Rights Watch warns that “environmental defenders face governments’ mounting efforts to criminalize peaceful protest.”
Ukrainian media are struggling to survive, LMF study finds
The study, which covered 2025 and 2026, showed that Ukraine’s media sector is in a state of permanent struggle for survival.
As online pages present themselves as “news” outlets, truth and credibility are at stake
To safeguard Lesotho’s democratic space, what is needed is an ecosystem of uncompromising accountability, where independent press bodies set the ethical standard, tech platforms enforce transparent labeling, and public institutions step up to defend the truth.