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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Joint Statement: Bahrain must end the systematic religious persecution of Shia citizens
IFEX joins a coalition of human rights organizations in urging Bahrain to end the systematic persecution of its Shia community, citing arbitrary arrests, restrictions on Ashura, and abuses against political prisoners.
Turkey: For journalists, speaking out means prison and persecution
The latest media monitoring report of Bianet documented the convictions, arrests, and attacks targeting journalists during the second quarter of 2026.
Pakistan: “Voices from the margins: Reclaiming press freedom in rural and underserved communities”
The latest edition of the feminist e-magazine “Digital 50.50” explores what press freedom looks like beyond Pakistan’s major cities.
Lesotho’s digital census points to the need for an Access to Information law
A digital census in a legal vacuum is a one-way conversation. As the final datasets are prepared for archiving, the real test will be whether the citizens who opened their doors to enumerators are granted the legal tools to see the results.
UN: Comments of ARTICLE 19 on draft General Comment No. 38 on freedom of association
ARTICLE 19 highlighted that the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of association are interrelated and interdependent.
Cambodia: Groups express concern over sentencing of journalists Phon Sopheap and Pheap Pheara
An open letter by various groups urged the Prime Minister to request a royal amnesty for the two journalists who were convicted of supplying a foreign state with information prejudicial to national defence.