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Police lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against Supriya Sharma, the executive editor of news portal Scroll.in for her report on the lockdown in...

Since the Indian government imposed Covid-19 restrictions on March 25, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has recorded 17 legal cases...

As Member States start discussing the proposed EU recovery plan, the International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ), along with 92...

"The impact of the health and economic crisis brought about by Covid-19 will without doubt have terrible consequences on both men and women...

Women trade union leaders and activists from all over the world met for the third and last webinar to address the effects of COVID-19 on women workers...

Malaysiakini, an independent media outlet, and its editor-in-chief Steven Gan are facing contempt proceedings after the Federal Court's decision to...

Journalist Mohamed Mounir was detained on June 15 on charges of "spreading fake news", a widespread practice of the Egyptian government to silence...

Phal Dam, a journalist with local television TV3 based in Ratanakkiri province, northeast Cambodia, was summoned to appear in court on Monday, June 15...

Le Huu Minh Tuan, an independent journalist and member of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam (IJAVN), was arrested on June 12. The...

Chin Sung Chew is a journalist with the Sin Chew Daily and the general secretary of the National Union of Journalists Malaysia (NUJM). As part of the...

Nearly a decade after the murder of Geo News journalist Wali Khan Babar, Pakistan police finally arrested one of his murderers ‘at large’ in an...

Jimmy Lai, high profile chairman of Next Gen and founder of Apple Daily was arrested on the June 11 on incitement charges relating to the Tiananmen...

Security officials barred private media journalists from covering an official event held in Chinhoyi city on 12 June that the president Emmerson...

A special aid package to protect journalists wages and support struggling media is to be introduced in North Macedonia thanks to the efforts of the...

The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Pan–African Organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched today a...