Kristina Stockwood

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki holds an IFEX-Tunisian Monitoring Group/Nawaat.org poster at World Press Freedom Day celebrations in May 2012., Nawaat.org

20 years of IFEX and World Press Freedom Day

IFEX and World Press Freedom Day almost share a birthday. IFEX was born in 1992, one year after UNESCO adopted 3 May as World Press Freedom Day. UNESCO supported IFEX from its debut as a network of a dozen international free expression NGOs, and that support helped IFEX grow to be the world’s leading global […]

Activists hold placards in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei on 27 February 2013 urging Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou to help free China's jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia., REUTERS/Pichi Chuang

Massive global effort to free Chinese Nobel laureate and his wife

A petition signed by over 450,000 people was delivered to Chinese embassies worldwide to free Nobel Peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo, detained since 2008, and his wife Liu Xia, under house arrest.