This briefing paper, presented by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), aims to provide insight into the evolving political landscape of Syria. It seeks to highlight the significant developments ...

The World Press Freedom Index 2025 records an ongoing wave of media outlet shutdowns globally. It also identifies 42 countries where press freedom is now "entirely absent".

GCHR condemns the sham trial as a tool to silence dissent, and calls for the immediate release of arbitrarily sentenced defendants and urgent reforms to ensure fair trials.

Un nuevo informe publicado por el Fondo para el Periodismo en el Exilio destaca la resiliencia y el papel crucial de los medios independientes que continúan informando desde el exilio.

Signatories urge the government of Nepal and Parliament to refrain from developing and implementing legislation that empowers government with overreaching powers, including through overbroad and vague ...

Recent weeks have seen journalists receive death threats, and several police raids on CSOs that work on human rights and access to information. Our organisations further note with alarm raids by ...

IFEX December 2024 brief: Regional Editor Reyhana Masters takes a deep dive into the issues that dominated the electoral landscape in some of the countries that held elections across the continent in ...

We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese journalists bravely reporting amid life-threatening risks and demand that all governments, press freedom organisations, and human rights bodies ...

IFEX's Asia-Pacific editor Mong Palatino features the work of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and civil society groups in promoting the empowerment of environmental activists and land rights ...

IFEX and other signatory organisations continue to share profound concerns regarding the persistent shortcomings of the present draft and urge member states to not sign the UN Cybercrime Convention in ...

Eagerness to regulate new technologies is understandable, but measures may infringe upon civil rights or fail to resolve the issues they were designed to tackle. Brazil and India's 2024 electoral ...

May 2024 in Europe and Central Asia: A free expression round-up produced by IFEX's Regional Editor Cathal Sheerin, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region. “Foreign agents” legislation ...