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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Indonesia: “The condition of the press today is in grave danger”
AJI recorded 89 cases of violence against journalists throughout 2025, an increase from 73 cases in 2024.
“Being in captivity is like being buried alive”: First words of released Belarusian journalists
The Belarusian Association of Journalists collected the first photos and first words from colleagues who had been behind bars until last week.
Mozambique’s internet shutdown case: African courts draw a line on executive power
Despite judicial victories, the threat remains pervasive, and litigation alone is insufficient when judgments arrive years after the harm. In 2025, the #KeepItOn coalition recorded 30 shutdowns across 15 African countries.
How mass surveillance from online advertising puts journalists at risk
According to CPJ’s report, journalists are regularly monitored with various forms of surveillance in efforts to intimidate them or expose their sources, often causing psychological trauma.
“KEL Radio” vandalised in Lesotho
While the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the motive and those responsible, have not yet been established, the destruction of broadcasting equipment is unacceptable regardless of the circumstances in which it occurred.
AFJC records over 100 media freedom violations in Afghanistan during the fifth year of Taliban rule
The Afghanistan Journalists Center has documented at least 102 cases of media freedom violations over the past 12 months.