Freedom House

While Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has been promoting himself through a public-relations campaign abroad, he has ratcheted up the suppression of critical voices within his own country.

The decline in global press freedom this year was driven in part by major regression in several Middle Eastern states; marked setbacks in Turkey, Ukraine, and a number of countries in East Africa; and deterioration in the relatively open media environment of the United States.

As President Barack Obama travels in Asia to emphasize the United States’ focus on the region, China and its domestic and foreign policies cast large shadows. Political repression in China is often seen as a constant, but the methods of Chinese political control have grown more sophisticated and increasingly affect free expression beyond China’s borders.

Whether across the airwaves, on the Internet, or at the polling booth, dictators are assisted by a range of private actors who are based in free countries but sell their services to unsavory regimes abroad.

Making a statement during International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO-T).

It’s no secret that the Pacific Islands will face rising sea levels, coastal flooding, and deadly storms as a result of climate change, a fact reiterated in this week’s report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Unfortunately, few people realize that these island nations are also home to a disappearing press sector. While […]

Recently the chairman of Bloomberg LP indicated that the company is backing away from its admirable investigative reporting on China’s elite, apparently with the aim of protecting its core financial-data business from political reprisals. This is alarming for many reasons, says Freedom House.

After a series of increasingly violent events, IFEX members and supporters call on Chief Executive Leung Chun-Ying to take clear and deliberate steps to defend press freedom.