News and Press Releases

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has backed its affiliate, the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), in calling for an independent...

An interview with Pakistan’s former president was taken off air within minutes of commencing broadcast on Geo News on July 1, drawing criticism of...

Big German media are failing to properly credit photojournalists’ pictures they use, a campaign launched by the Deutscher Journalisten Verband (DJV)...

Hong Kong journalists reporting a rally in support of Hong Kong police were attacked, insulted and kicked by government supporters on June 30. The...

Four telecommunication companies in Myanmar were ordered by authorities to temporarily suspend internet services in nine townships amid military...

A media security guard has been shot and killed, while another seven media workers have been injured from a car bomb blast near private broadcaster...

Hundreds of delegates from journalists unions around the world adopted a new Global Charter of Ethics for Journalists at an historic International...

A Kashmiri editor was arrested in a late night raid on his home in Srinagar on June 24. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its...

Myanmar’s military has launched legal action against three local journalists following their reporting of a farmer protest in the Kayah State capital,...

Cambodia’s court has rejected an appeal by two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) reporters accused of espionage. The International Federation of...

India’s increasing spate of attacks and murders of media workers has prompted a direct call to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for urgent action...

The president of Karachi Press Club (KPC) was punched and pushed from a chair by a politician from Pakistan’s ruling party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf...

A consortium of more than a hundred civil society organisations, unions and citizen groups handed a draft Freedom of Information Bill to the Gambian...

An opposition leader in Botswana has been accused of abusing a female journalist on social media.

Egyptian media company Al-Tahrir is in danger after its website was blocked for unknown reasons and could be insolvent within two months, according to...

Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, today committed to work on improving journalists’ safety and fighting against impunity following a...