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Women pose with their slates as they attend a free school for illiterate women, in Dhunkapada village, Orissa state, India, 8 September 2014, AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout

Information is for everyone: Why literacy is a gender equality issue

Literacy is not just about reading and writing. It is often the catalyst that allows women to have input into social and economic decisions that affect their lives.

Activists, one holding today's copy of "Cumhuriyet" newspaper, march to a court in Istanbul, on 24 July 2017, to protest against the trial of the paper's journalists and staff, AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

A newspaper in the dock on Turkey’s Press Freedom Day

Can Dündar, Cumhuriyet’s exiled former editor-in-chief, and the 2017 Golden Pen of Freedom laureate, looks back on the night 13 journalists were arrested and placed in solitary cells after police raided their homes.

Kem Ley, 4 June, 2016, AP/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pressure mounts on Cambodia a year after Kem Ley’s killing

On the one-year anniversary of the death of popular Cambodian activist Kem Ley, civil society organisations from around the world reiterated their call for an independent inquiry.

REUTERS/Aly Song

Is the internet a “safe place” for women journalists?

Though great strides have been made to raise awareness, online gender-based harassment continues to be an increasingly pervasive problem for women journalists.

Demonstration for Dawit Isaak 5000 days in jail, June 2015, Wikimedia Commons / Frankie Fouganthin

Is Dawit Isaak alive?

That’s the question 33 NGOs are asking Eritrea this World Press Freedom Day, after the Cano prize-winning journalist remains unheard from since 2005.

Protestors in Mexico City hold up signs demanding justice for slain journalist Miroslava Breach, Associated Press/ Eduardo Verdugo

Spike in journalist killings in Mexico spurs international calls for justice

IFEX members around the world denounce the alarming rate of journalist murders in Mexico and demand a thorough evaluation of existing protection mechanisms.

Demonstrators stand in a show of solidarity with the press in front of "The New York Times" building in New York, 26 February 2017, AP Photo/Kathy Willens

Press’s ability to hold power to account in the U.S. is in jeopardy

International media leaders have signalled their deep concern with the U.S. administration’s persistent attacks on the press in a letter addressed to President Donald Trump.

Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan must treat editor Zhanbolat Mamay fairly

Members of IFEX wrote an open letter on behalf of Kazakh Editor Zhanbolat Mamay, calling for a fair and impartial handling of charges against him and full investigation into his mistreatment in prison and threats made to his family.