Marianna Tzabiras

People in China find novel ways to bypass the censors during the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

IFEX marks Earth Day by honouring those who speak out in defense of the environment, putting their jobs, safety, freedom and sometimes even their lives at risk.

Three years after Burma embarked on a path toward democracy and away from its history of military rule, assessments of its success vary, especially around media freedom and free expression.

On Music Freedom Day, IFEX recognises the free expression rights of musicians and looks back at five cases from the last year when people have tried to stop the music.

A call for a UN mandate on privacy emerged from an expert seminar held in Geneva this week on “The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age”.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on Express Media that claimed the lives of three media workers; the group has issued a fatwa (decree) warning of further attacks against media outlets that they say are providing “misinformation” against them.

Women journalists are targeted for being women, for being journalists and sometimes, for being women journalists, notes the IFJ, while calling for an end to impunity for these crimes.

States that fail to protect human rights defenders or cooperate with the UN should not be elected to the UN’s top human rights body, IFEX members stress.

The arrest of Umesh Yadav in the 2009 slaying of an outspoken Nepalese journalist and women’s rights activist who was critical of the region’s Maoists may mean justice will finally be served.

The Philippines’ libel law has made the media’s monitoring role and assisting the public through accurate information in the task of exacting official accountability, more difficult than it already is.

Members of Burma’s Press Council have threatened to resign if amendments are not made to the Printing and Publishing Enterprise Law which was recently approved by the Lower House of Parliament.

See how government-complicit free expression violations remain a harsh reality facing environmental rights activists in the Philippines, especially around the area of mining.

See how government-complicit free expression violations remain a harsh reality facing environmental rights activists in the Philippines, especially around the area of mining.

The decisions IFEX members make and the challenges they face when documenting journalists’ fatalities.

Since the arrest of five accused in the 2004 murder of journalist Dekendra Thapa, the Nepalese media has come under attack from supporters of the ruling Maoist party for covering the investigation and protesting the alleged government interference.

The war in Syria, instability in Somalia and Taliban violence in Pakistan were the main contributing factors to the high number of journalists killed in the line of duty in 2012, IFEX members report.