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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Editor, rights defender and former Chairperson of MISA Lesotho, Kananelo Boloetse, is violently abducted and threatened
MISA Lesotho condemned the act, stressing that to abduct a journalist from his home, inflict severe physical violence, and discard him in the remote terrain of Thaba-Bosiu under threat of death is a barbaric violation of human dignity.
Yemen: Periodic report on serious human rights violations
The Gulf Centre for Human rights has documented numerous violations over the past six months, including the continued arbitrary detention of a prominent human rights lawyer and a health expert, and journalists killed and threatened.
“Attempt at censorship”: Morena party files complaint against TV Azteca over satirical piece
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) calls on the INE to ensure that electoral mechanisms are not used to restrict criticism and political satire.
ACHPR calls on African countries to investigate misuse of court process to silence journalists, other public watchdogs
The Commission expressed concern that human rights defenders, journalists, whistleblowers, community activists, lawyers, and opposition figures are particularly vulnerable to SLAPPs, especially when they engage in advocacy relating to human rights, climate and the environment, corruption, corporate accountability, labour rights, and sexual and gender-based violence.
Moldova: Groups push back against attempt to intimidate 23 media outlets
A lawsuit was filed demanding 23 media outlets to conduct a “full audit” of their websites, archives, internal systems and social media accounts to identify and remove content related to a company.
Nepal: Journalists and family members go missing in flash flood
Freedom Forum urged authorities to intensify search and rescue efforts in the affected areas and locate those who are missing.