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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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.
Military chief orders Nation Media Group shutdowns, threatens managing director
“Laying siege to the Nation Media Group in Uganda, the largest media house in east and central Africa, at the whim of military chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba offers yet another indication of the country’s deepening authoritarianism,” said the Committee to Protect Journalists.
When censorship becomes a crime: Free expression in systems of gender persecution and apartheid
This legal brief explores the central role that freedom of expression violations play in maintaining systems of gender persecution.
Gen Z and restrictions on freedom of expression in Egyptian universities
A paper by the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) aims to provide an analytical reading of students’ perception of universities, and to highlight the alternative pathways they pursue to sustain forms of participation and collective engagement.
Online violence, misinformation, and digital safety drive urgent regional advocacy action
Groups across Europe and Central Asia agree that addressing online harms requires a combination of regulatory reform, digital literacy initiatives, institutional accountability, and sustained cross-border cooperation.
Malaysia: Civil society demands that the government commit to a rights-focused FOI framework
Groups call for an effective, progressive, and rights-focused FOI Act and framework.