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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MRA demands justice 40 years after editor Dele Giwa’s assassination
MRA described the Government’s failure to bring Dele Giwa’s case to a conclusive resolution four decades later as a “shameful reminder of the entrenched culture of impunity for attacks against journalists in Nigeria.”
Pakistan: Rise in cases involving minors flags urgent online safety crisis
As of July 2026, the group’s Helpline has already received 153 complaints involving minors.
Mexico sees longest-running wave of journalists murdered in peacetime, 169 killed in 20 years
“To speak of journalism in Mexico is also to speak of a justice system in which reporters find themselves accused, a system that is ineffective at best and corrupt at worst. The impunity that has surrounded these murders over the past two decades illustrates this” – RSF.
Share of mudslinging in Ukrainian online news triples in 6 months – IMI
IMI experts identified a total of 203 news stories bearing signs of commissioning in August 2026.
IFLA endorses International Science Council definition of the Right to Science
It highlights that everyone should be able to participate in generating knowledge through the observation of natural phenomena, as well as questioning existing ideas.
Hungary: International coalition to hold fact-finding mission amid media reforms
A coalition of international media freedom and journalist organisations, including IFEX, will travel to Hungary to take stock of the reforms to media policy under the new Tisza government, and identify further priority areas for where reform can help restore media freedom and foster independent journalism.