News and Press Releases

Germany: Unions demand Coronavirus aid for self-employed workers

The United Services Union (Ver.di) and the International Federation of Journalists have backed calls for measures to cushion the impact of the…

Croatia: Unions raise the alarm about the COVID-19 impact on journalism

The Trade Union of Croatian Journalists (TUCJ) and the Croatian Journalists Association (CJA) urged the government “to save journalism” by taking…

Greece: TV and radio campaign spot in support of journalists

The Journalists’ Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers (JUADN) has launched a TV and radio campaign spot in support of journalists, media pluralism and…

Chechnya: award-winning journalist threatened by Governor over COVID19 reporting

Chechen Governor Ramzan Kadyrov has threatened Russian journalist Elena Milashina for reporting about a shortage of protective equipment amongst…

Twenty-four rights-groups call on Turkey to release all those arbitrarily detained, now at risk of Covid-19

In the early hours of Tuesday 14 April, the Turkish Parliament passed a law which will lead to the release of up to 90,000 prisoners. However, it…

IFJ in the news !

Every week the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is compiling a list of the top news articles from across the world in which it is…

Governments and employers must do more to protect workers

Governments and employers need to do more to protect jobs, wages and living standards amid the Covid-19 pandemic according to a new survey published…

Ukraine: Journalists demand action and support from the government

Journalists in Ukraine are demanding action by government after a catastrophic fall in revenue has led to wage cuts, job losses and staff being forced…

COVID-19: IFJ urges European governments not to limit and control press conference questions

Some European countries have decided to limit and control journalists' questions during government press conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The…

COVID-19: Serbian government must guarantee free flow of information

Serbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, withdrew a planned decree that would have limited the publishing of information related to COVID-19 just to…

Being a journalist in Italy

Italian journalists are on the front lines in the emergency that has hit the country. Federazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana (FSNI) is working to…

COVID-19: Council of Europe must ensure press freedom is protected

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined other press freedom groups in calling on Europe’s top human rights and democracy…

Hungary: new law uses Covid-19 to tackle press freedom

The Hungarian Parliament passed a bill on 30 March allowing the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to rule by decree without a set time limit.…

Belarusian: BAJ calls for immediate release of Siarhei Satsuk and drop of criminal charges

On March 25, 2020, at about 16:30, Siarhei Satsuk, member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, journalist and editor-in-chief of the online…

COVID-19: IFJ and EFJ urge Turkish government not to discriminate against political prisoners

Sixteen human rigths and professional organisations urged Turkish Government not to discriminate against political prisoners in its forthcoming early…

COVID-19: restrictions on access to information in Romania

The president of Romania Klaus Werner Iohannis signed on 16 March an emergency decree which, among other measures, allows the National Authority for…

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