IFEX Latin American & Caribbean Alliance

IFEX-ALC calls on the Bolivian government to provide guarantees for the right to freedom of expression and to fulfill its obligations to investigate and bring to justice those responsible for actions against the press.

Since April 2018, when demonstrations against the Ortega government began, Nicaragua has suffered serious setbacks to the rights to freedom of expression and access to information

On the anniversary of the death of Paraguayan journalist Pablo Medina, we celebrate a story of successful network collaboration through a new video that tells the story of IFEX-ALC’s work on the issue of impunity in Paraguay.

A statement from the IFEX-ALC on recent death threats against the Paraguayan Journalists Union’s leadership.

IFEX-ALC members condemn the recent threats, attacks, harassment, and censorship against media outlets and journalists in Nicaragua.

The IFEX-ALC is calling for the immediate release of Pedro Jaimes Criollo, a Twitter user detained and tortured for posting public information about the presidential aircraft on his aerospace news account.

Latin American free expression organisations met in Ecuador this week and issued an urgent call for states to address violence against journalists and the problem of impunity

The IFEX-ALC network is calling for the prompt and transparent investigation of the murder of a journalism team along the Colombia-Ecuador border.

Threats, harassment and assaults against media outlets and journalists continue to intensify under the Maduro administration

IFEX-ALC condemns alarming levels of government corruption, censorship and inaction amidst journalist killings in Guatemala.

Since public demonstrations began in March, there have been over 160 violations of the right to freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and the right to seek, receive and impart information.

Despite the introduction of special protection mechanisms, the Mexican State’s measures have proven ineffective in curbing killings and disappearances of journalists.

IFEX-ALC is deeply concerned with the increase in acts of violence against journalists in Guatemala. Since the new government of President Jimmy Morales began its mandate in January 2016, five journalists have been killed.

The IACHR has protected journalists, organizations and human rights defenders under threat, and IFEX-ALC argues that the financial crisis it is facing puts the most vulnerable populations in the Americas at the greatest risk.

The IFEX-ALC network absolutely rejects the arbitrary police actions, to which the General Secretary of the Sindicato de Periodistas del Paraguay, Santiago Ortiz, was subjected this past Wednesday, 25 May. He was detained by force without any justification, in clear violation of the Constitution of Paraguay.

Following a fact-finding visit to Paraguay, the IFEX-ALC submitted a report to the UN Human Rights Council, detailing the context for free expression in the country. Recommendations have now been included in the official stakeholders’ report.