News and Press Releases

The trade union movement in the MENA region and around the world is saddened by the terrible loss of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who...

Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by the Israeli army while covering a raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early on May 11....

The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) has been awarded the 2022 UNESCO Guillermo Cano Prize. The Award Ceremony will take place on 2 May in...

The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has been working to provide every possible support to the Afghan Journalists to evacuate Afghanistan...

Television presenter Moheb Jalili was beaten and abducted by Taliban militants on April 17 and reporter Reza Shahir was detained by the Taliban on...

Solidarity centers just launched by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), with the support of the International and European...

Journalist Mohiuddin Sarkar Nayem was allegedly shot dead by drug dealers near the border with India in Cumilla city on 13 April. The International...

Somaliland police arrested 16 journalists and raided the headquarters of Horn Cable TV on 13 April. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)...

Journalist Thanasis Koukakis was allegedly spied on by a new surveillance software named Predator for at least three months, a report revealed. The...

The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) has documented 20 violations of press freedom in the country between 1 January and 31 March 2022, ranging from...

The recent decision of the Taliban regime to block the broadcast of international media has been a major blow for press freedom and public access to...

Ukrainian photojournalist Maks Levin who went missing since 13 March while documenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine near the capital, Kyiv, has...

Tunisian public media workers will go on strike on April 2 in protest against shrinking press freedoms and attempts by President Kaïs Saied and his...

At the beginning of the war in Ukraine and the bombing of major cities the IFJ and the EFJ launched a special Safety Fund to support journalists in...

Fox News camera operator Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian producer and fixer Oleksandra Kuvshynova, also known as Sasha, were killed on 14 March while...

After more than a week of bombings, air strikes and gun battles, Russia’s war in Ukraine is intensifying.