Every day, citizens, journalists, artists and activists are harassed, tortured and killed for expressing themselves.

In the majority of these cases, no one is punished. We’re working to change this.

The shocking facts about the problem of impunity:

journalists and media workers have been killed since 2006.

9 out of 10 cases go unpunished and see perpetrators walk free.

organisations that make up the IFEX network are committed to ending impunity.

Stalking the messenger: Ending impunity for illegal surveillance

Stalking the messenger: Ending impunity for illegal surveillance

It’s thanks to the work of journalists that the crimes of state surveillance were first exposed. Now, they are among those being stalked.

Recent Articles on Impunity

Four years of Israeli violence against Palestinian journalists covering “March of Return” protests

Reporters Without Borders registered more than 140 Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists since the weekly protests began in March 2018.

Attack on journalists by politicians on the rise in The Gambia

The Gambia Press Union called out opposition leader Ousainou Darboe for his verbal attack against radio journalist Pa Nderry Touray.

It has been a bleak six months for journalism in the Americas, says IAPA at conclusion of meeting

The mid-year meeting of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) concluded that increasing violence against journalists is the main challenge to the free press in the Americas. It also denounced an increase in imprisonment, the forced exile of journalists, judicial harassment, and stigmatization.