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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Brazil: RSF takes legal action over cyberharassment of journalists covering LGBTQIA+ rights and gender issues
“In a digital environment where platforms not only fail to tackle violent speech but also encourage its circulation, press freedom is under threat” – RSF.
Digital media and the problem with Egypt’s licensing system
The prior licensing system grants an administrative authority broad power to determine who holds the right to operate stably within the media sphere, amid a lack of sufficient transparency and guarantees regarding equality and non-discrimination.
Albania: Cumulative pressure on media freedom and civic space demands urgent action
Several groups express concern about the deterioration of media freedom, civic space, and democratic debate in Albania during the “Flamingo Revolution.”
How the anti-disinformation bill poses a danger to press freedom in the Philippines
Free speech advocates and human rights groups warn that the bill, if passed into law, could be “weaponized” to silence public dissent.
Meta must stop silencing reproductive health information
EFF collected nearly 100 submissions from various stakeholders whose reproductive health content had been removed by social media platforms.
Former prime minister released after a year in prison for social media post
While the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the release of Moussa Mara, it condemns his imprisonment for exercising his freedom of expression rights and the government’s use of cybercrime-related laws to detain and jail journalists and critical voices of dissent.