News and Press Releases

Six months on from the start of mass protests following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022, 15 journalists are still being held…

MIS A JOUR LE 16.03.23 Le 13 mars, l’Assemblée des Représentants du Peuple (ARP) tunisienne a interdit aux médias et journalistes indépendants -…

Media stakeholders, legal experts and civil society organisations have expressed their concern that a proposed amendment to elections legislation…

On the eve of FIFA 73rd Congress in Rwanda, the undersigned Global Union Federations express serious concerns on the decent work legacy of the Qatar…

Media workers from several Jang Media Group (JMG) outlets, including television network Geo News, have begun a series of protests against systemic…

Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland, an IFJ affiliate, working across England for BBC Local will begin a 24-hour…

At least three people have been killed, including two journalists, and over 30 injured in an Islamic State (IS) bomb attack at a press award ceremony…

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…

In a new report, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) has revealed tough and restrictive working conditions for foreign journalists and…

As today marks International Women's Day, find out what IFJ affiliates are doing to call for an improvement of women's journalists rights in the…

Maria Luísa Rogério has been working as a journalist for 36 years and has covered several elections across the African continent. She is a senior…

Nélida Maquera is a journalist at Radio Onda Azul and the president of the Puno Delegation of the National Association of Journalists (ANP) in Peru.…

Naw Betty Han is a Burmese journalist from Frontier Myanmar. She was reporting in Myanmar before the military takeover in 2021, which made the country…

The Council of Europe Platform for Protection of Journalism and the Safety of Journalists, together with the International and European and…

The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) has been labeled an ‘extremist group’ by Alyaksandr Lukashenko’s regime, in an obvious act of…

Areen Al-Amleh is a Palestine public TV journalist based in Hebron and a safety trainer accredited by the IFJ. She has been working as a news…