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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Appeal to Tunisian authorities to stop unjust imprisonment of journalists and human rights defenders
Members of IFEX and civil society partners call on Tunisian authorities to free those unjustly imprisoned for documenting human rights violations, and to end the abuse of laws to persecute those who exercise their rights to free speech.
Peru: RSF calls on president Keiko Fujimori to improve alarming state of press freedom
Reporters Without Borders has issued seven policy recommendations to protect news professionals and their outlets, and calls on the new government to instate concrete guarantees that the press can freely and safely investigate those in power.
SFLC.in’s statement on the Indian government’s order to GitHub to block BitChat
“What we see emerging through these removals is a system of informal, decentralised censorship, where the government can direct content removals without transparency or oversight” – SFLC.in
Azerbaijan: Call for the immediate release of journalist Afgan Sadigov
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) calls on the international community, including the Council of Europe and the European Union, to press Azerbaijan to guarantee Sadigov’s safety and freedom of movement.
The increasing presence of organized crime on TikTok and its impact on Palestinian society in Israel
A new 7amleh study calls on TikTok to develop more effective mechanisms for detecting and removing criminal content, increase transparency around its moderation policies, and reduce algorithmic recommendations of violent and criminal content.
The IAPA condemns murder of Oaxacan journalist, sixth reporter to be killed in Mexico this year
Hours before his murder, journalist Francisco Leyva Aguilar had published a piece addressing insecurity in the state of Oaxaca and the alleged interference of organized crime in the local economy and politics.