Get ready to be inspired!
IFEX’s 2023 Annual Report is packed with stories of creativity, compassion, and collaboration from our amazing/unique network.
This past year IFEX faced numerous challenges, but we continued to adapt, strengthening our dedication to defending freedom of expression and information.
The challenges aren’t going away anytime soon – but neither is IFEX!
Throughout 2023, IFEX provided crucial support to members under pressure, contributed to tackling gendered disinformation, and helped members empower youth participation at the global climate conference COP28. We also supported member initiatives documenting attacks on journalists, defending cartoonists’ rights, and addressing online platform abuse and disinformation.
Learn how IFEX is making a difference worldwide. Read our 2023 annual report here:
Featured Articles
Bahrain must immediately free detained human rights defender Ali AlHajee
IFEX joins human rights organisations calling for the immediate release of the detained Bahraini human rights defender and former political prisoner.
Kazakhstan: Adil Soz raises alarm over increasing attacks on journalists
On 30 January, journalist Aisha Kutubaeva was physically attacked during a trial by the wife of the former Head of the Department of Culture, Bolat Mazhagulov. Mazhagulov is standing trial for embezzlement.
Supreme Court upholds sentences of those convicted in UAE84 case, including GCHR’s Board member Ahmed Mansoor
GCHR denounces the ruling as a tactic to imprison critics indefinitely, calling for the immediate release of those arbitrarily detained and urgent reforms to ensure fair trial standards.
Russian propagandists pose as RSF to spread disinformation
“RSF has identified six online videos posted in just over six months that have stolen its identity and graphic charter — and almost all of these videos are about the war in Ukraine.”
Nepalese government called on to revise punitive new Media Council and Social Media bills
Signatories urge the government of Nepal and Parliament to refrain from developing and implementing legislation that empowers government with overreaching powers, including through overbroad and vague provisions that could be misused and abused to target activists, journalists, critics and other perceived opponents.
HRNJ-Uganda condemns escalating violence against journalists
IFEX member HRNJ-Uganda’s recent reporting on a violent attack on a journalist by Uganda’s security agency warns of an escalating media crackdown.
