News and Press Releases

The IFJ today backed calls by its UK affiliate, the NUJ, on government ministers and all politicians to stop traducing journalists and media outlets…

Según un informe difundido por la Asociación Nacional de Periodistas del Perú este martes 16 de marzo, el número de muertes conocidas a causa del…

Este lunes 15 de marzo, el Estado colombiano se retiró de la audiencia fijada por la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos al recusar a lxs jueces…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) has secured a financial aid package from the Palestinian authority for Palestinian local media and…

Several journalists were pushed, chased and assaulted by Samajwadi Party cadres and security personnel of Samajwadi Party leader, Akhilesh Yadav, at a…

China’s embassy in the United Kingdom has issued a letter to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) critiquing its reporting on China and urging…

The Office of the Attorney General of Samoa threatened the Samoa Observer with a legal investigation into its reporting of perceived conflict of…

The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Pan-African Organization of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), has called on African…

Civil society organisations staged a protest at Malaysia’s Parliament in Kuala Lumpur on March 14, demanding an end to the country’s emergency…

Mumia Abu-Jamal, an African-American journalist with close ties to the Black Panthers, who has spent nearly 40 years in prison, has tested positive…

IFJ in the news

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…

Malaysia’s Pakatan Nasional government implemented a new emergency law on March 11 that will criminalise “fake news” relating to Covid-19. The IFJ and…

The International Federation of Journalists today published the report on journalists and media staff killed in work-related incidents around the…

How do authoritarian regimes and armed conflicts silence journalists and undermine justice? How has the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenges…

On 8 March, journalist Levent Gültekin was attacked by a group of around 20 people just a few metres away from his workplace at the Halk TV station in…

Over 300 Afghan female journalists have quit their jobs in recent months due to security concerns, including a spate of female media workers' killings…