News and Press Releases

Women politicians too rarely make the headlines in political coverage and when they do they are often subject to sexism and stereotypes.

Organisations defending media freedom, freedom of expression and human rights, including the IFJ, have strongly condemned the appalling attack on…

The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) joined the undersigned international media freedom organisations in expressing…

Switzerland will be on strike on Wednesday 14 June to demand better working conditions for women, including in the media sector. Four years after the…

In a judgement issued on 6 June, a High Court in the UK has rejected the latest appeal by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against an extradition…

More than one thousand journalists and media professionals will participate in a 48-hour strike action on 7 and 8 June to protest over BBC plans to…

The IFJ-led EU-funded project Rewriting the story ended, on 4 June, its second 'train the trainers' session in Zagreb, Croatia, with journalists from…

Around 30 people broke into the courtyard of Serbian television channel N1 to express their discontent with the media coverage of the channel on 30…

Iryna Levchenko, a former local journalist and member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), an IFJ-EFJ affiliate, has been illegally…

A growing number of attacks on journalists and media workers have been documented in northern Kosovo since 26 May, which intensified on 29 May,…

Council of Global Unions Statement, 26 May 2023. Global Unions urge governments and employers to help put an end to human and trade union rights…

How can journalists provide the public with the best quality gender aware reporting on politics? Watch the video below to know more about the IFJ- led…

Journalist Arman Soldin was killed in the afternoon of 9 May 2023 in a shelling attack near Chasiv Yar, in eastern Ukraine. The 32-year-old was…

Euronews will mark its 30th anniversary on 9 May after announcing almost 200 redundancies on 2 March. Trade unions are calling for a reaction from…

UPDATED ON 23.05.23 On 3 May, Raman Pratasevich, former editor of the Telegram opposition news channel Nexta, was given an eight year prison sentence…

Bohdan Bitik, a Ukrainian fixer for Corrado Zunino, a journalist from the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, was shot dead  in the city of Kherson on 26…