News and Press Releases

Police officers assaulted and physically attacked a young female journalist in central Harare today, causing her several injuries. The International...

A nation-wide campaign countering the Australian government’s culture of secrecy launched on Australian television yesterday, continuing today with...

JOINT STATEMENT On 8 October, the retrial of journalists, writers and media workers Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak, Yakup Şimşek, Fevzi...

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...

The Andhra Pradesh government has submitted a proposal to allow department secretaries to sue media organisations for alleged “fake news”. The...

A former journalist with Berita Satu TV won an important case for workers’ rights in Indonesia, with his former employee ordered to pay severance and...

Los Angeles Times Guild secured yesterday the first collective agreement in the title's history that will provide immediate pay rises and measures to...

Unidentified assailants stabbed and killed Andrah Pradesh journalist K Satyanarayana on October 14 – just a month after he was attacked in a separate...

Wednesday 16 October 2019 marks two years since the brutal assassination of Malta’s best-known investigative journalist and anti-corruption...

A driver from Now News was targeted with a projectile fired by a police weapon on October 14, before being beaten and detained by police for two...

The IFJ hosted a press briefing at the Brussels Press Club organised by the ITUC for a delegation of human rights and pro-democracy activists visiting...

Twelve journalists clearly identified as such were targeted by police violence on 14 October in Catalonia as part of the coverage of demonstrations...

Journalists Saad Ahmed, working for Hawar ANHA news agency, and Mohamed Hussein, correspondent for Çira TV, were killed and four others were injured...

Pro-democacy protests in Hong Kong have dominated headline news for months and the unrest shows no signs of dying down. The IFJ will organise a press...

Several journalists have been arrested in Egypt in a new crackdown on independent media.

Activists across world times zones unite to tackle the biggest issue of our time, human DISPARITY.