IFEX Dispatches from 2025: NO ORDINARY YEAR
We invite you to review our 2025 Annual Report, below, in which we share stories of how this diverse global network confronting unprecedented challenges while achieving meaningful victories for press freedom and free expression.
In 2025, the landscape for journalists and human rights defenders grew more precarious. Funding cuts, restrictive legislation, toxic online environments, and escalating conflicts created a perfect storm. One that disproportionately threatened women, girls, and marginalized communities. Yet amid these formidable obstacles, the IFEX network demonstrated the power of collective action. By leveraging our unique strengths, the experience, diversity, and reach of our members, we not only sustained one another through crisis but advanced our vision in concrete ways. We won legal battles protecting independent media, shielded organization leaders under siege, amplified member voices in critical policy spaces, and forged connections that turned isolation into solidarity. Read all about it and discover how, even against the tide, the IFEX network proved that where there’s people, there’s hope in our 2025 Annual Report.
Past Reports
2024: A Network that Works | Download the PDF here.
2023: A Network that Works | Download the PDF here.
2022: The Big Picture | Download the PDF here.
2021: Oligarchs, Autocrats, Liars and Bullies | Download the PDF here.
2020: Dispatches: Let’s Talk About 2020… | Download the PDF here.
2019: Dispatches: The IFEX Network & Freedom of Expression in 2019 | Download the PDF here.