Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)

In the past year, the Right to Know Right Now coalition has been systematising the coordination and documentation of experience in our information requests relating to our respective advocacies. It now plans to scale this up to include administrative and judicial interventions.

The president of the Davao del Norte Press and Radio-TV Club (DNPRC) was shot by an unidentified man and later died in hospital. The executive vice president of the DNPRC that the killing might be related to his work as a board of director of DANECO.

Journalist Emmaruth Esteban is also looking at politics and a family feud as the possible sources of the threats, but does not discount the possibility that it might be because of something she had written.

A self-proclaimed anti-communist group allegedly threatened via text message several journalists in Davao and Cagayan de Oro, Philippines when they failed to cover a press conference hosted by the former.

IFEX members urge the UN Security Council to ensure the protection of journalists in Yemen in light of historic resolution.

Radio blocktimer Rey Cabaraban is facing a libel case for comments made on air. At the time has commenting on illegal logging, mining, and the peace and order situation in Bukidnon province, Philippines.

Four years after Sierra Leone Journalist Ibrahim Foday’s death, members of IFEX join the Media Foundation for West Africa in calling for more rapid progress.

Charged under the Sedition Act in Malaysia, internationally known political cartoonist Zunar could face 43 years in jail for a tweet.