News and Press Releases

TV journalist Dawit Kebede Araya was shot dead in his car on 20 January near his home in the conflict-hit region of Tigray located in northern...

La Federação Nacional dos Jornalistas (FENAJ) lanzó este martes 26 de enero el Informe "Violencia contra Periodistas y Libertad de Prensa en...

The Global Unions Federations and the International Trade Union Confederation call on the Egyptian president to order the immediate release of Ahmed...

The launch of vaccination campaigns around the world has brought a ray of hope to end the COVID-19 pandemic but it has also become a major challenge...

Dozens of journalists and media workers were arrested and beaten by the police on January 23 while covering protests in support of jailed opposition...

The disruption of the global economy due to COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 exacerbated the commercial challenges already facing the media industry around...

Reporter Hamdi Atef Abdel Fattah and online news editor Ahmed Khalifa went missing after being arrested between 4 and 6 January on charges of...

A Gujarat court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against senior Indian journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta following the filing of a defamation...

A new tax on some digital services in Spain - dubbed the Google Tax - is expected to generate huge revenues this year which journalists unions say...

The recent approval of a number of Covid-19 vaccines all over the world has meant thousands of journalists are having to report on vaccines and...

Five men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of journalist Humayun Kabir Balu, sixteen years after he was killed in a targeted...

There were more than 600 violations of media and journalists’ rights during 2020 in Palestine, according to the latest report from the Palestine...

In the first 15 days of 2021, the Turkish Journalists Union (TGS) has already recorded five physical attacks against journalists in Turkey. The...

A mob of nearly a dozen people led by the imam of a local mosque attacked Zohra Radio in north eastern Kunduz province on January 15 damaging the...

A journalist, persecuted on fabricated charges, was arrested on 17 January as he fled Iran to escape a jail sentence, and now fears being handed over...

Malaysia’s national journalism union has requested cooperation from Malaysia’s government as well as media and non-media workers in addressing...