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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Civil society and experts call for a global moratorium on frontier AI
IFEX members are among the 60 civil society organisations sounding the alarm over the harms caused by “frontier AI”. They stress that a handful of private companies cannot be allowed to determine what level of danger the public should accept.
Mali’s shrinking civic space: Imprisonments, bans, and the silencing of independent media
Using prolonged pre-trial remands and framing protected political speech as criminal association sets a dangerous precedent, normalising the judicial system as a tool for political suppression.
Ahead of his trial hearing, rights groups call for the immediate release of photojournalist Hamdi El-Zaeem after ten years of deprivation of liberty
The continued deprivation of Hamdi El-Zaeem’s liberty over such an extended period constitutes a serious violation of the right to liberty and security of person, as well as the fundamental guarantees of a fair trial.
Dutch newspapers fined over weight-loss drug coverage
The EFJ stands firmly with its affiliates NVJ and VVJ and the Dutch newsrooms targeted by these fines. Reporting responsibly on the off-label use of medicines, is a matter of public interest, not advertising.
Against the dismantling of Slovenia’s public service broadcaster
A proposed amendment could threaten to dismantle the financial and editorial independence of Slovenia’s public service broadcaster.
Journalist Henry Constantín detained in Cuba on “disobedience” charge
Henry Constantín’s defense lawyer was unable to obtain the case file from the Prosecutor’s Office making it impossible to file an appeal.