The arrest and disappearance of at least six journalists since August 2025 signal Ethiopia's escalating campaign to silence independent media before the national elections. This statement was ...

Su plan estratégico guiará a su organización para lograr su visión, misión y propósitos, y le ayudará a responder cinco preguntas clave sobre la razón de ser y las actividades de su organización. Un ...

ARTICLE 19 and the Centre for Independent Journalism said the injunction amounts to government overreach, restricting important political content protected under freedom of expression standards.

May 2025 in Europe and Central Asia: A free expression and civic space round-up produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Cathal Sheerin, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.

A wave of laws cloaked in the language of national security, international compliance, and public morality is sweeping across Africa. These measures silence individuals and dismantle the organisations ...

The spectre of ‘foreign agent’ legislation is haunting Europe. Introduced by authoritarians, and presented as necessary for ‘state security’, the true aim of such legislation is always to silence ...

Across the Middle East and North Africa, broad national security, counter-terrorism, and public morality laws are increasingly restricting civil society organisations. Governments are wielding vague ...

In the Americas, constraints and pressures on civic space are mounting. While recent years have seen a rise in troubling legislation restricting access to information and enabling state surveillance, ...

Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Asia face significant challenges. In countries under authoritarian regimes, they endure harassment, persecution or even outright bans. Colonial-era sedition and ...

Tuğçe Yılmaz and several other journalists have been indicted for "aiding a terrorist organisation" because of their work with two pro-Kurdish outlets: newspaper "Yeni Özgür Politika" and magazine ...

The enactment of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice law in August 2024 has undermined the work of media. This statement was originally published on afjc.media on 12 September 2025. The de ...

Only Australian media were allowed to cover the event of the prime minister at the Pacific Islands Forum. This statement was originally published on pacificfreedomforum.com on 11 September 2025. The ...