Violence escalated this week against journalists in Pakistan with the deaths of one journalist in a bomb blast in Peshawar. Asfandyar Abid Naveed, a journalist with Akhbar-e-Khyber, was killed in the blasts, which occurred on Saturday at a market in the capital of the Khyber Pankhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. Two smaller blasts, one at a […]

The Israeli Palestinian Journalists’ Forum of the International Press Institute (IPI) began today following an opening dinner and award ceremony on Tuesday night at Vienna’s historic Hofburg Palace. The opening dinner was marked by the presentation of IPI’s first Dialogue for Press Freedom Award to Turkish journalist and WINPEACE co-founder Zeynep Oral. Handing over the […]

Turkish journalist Zeynep Oral, the first recipient of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s “Press Freedom Dialogue Award”, is the co-founder, together with Margarita Papandreou of Greece, of the Women’s Initiative for Peace, or WINPEACE. Founded in January 1996, following the December 1995 Imia Island Crisis which brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of an Indian journalist in Mumbai on 11 June. Jyotirmoy Dey was killed on the spot after being shot at several times by four men in a carefully planned operation in broad daylight, IPI’s India National Committee reported. Dey was the special investigations editor at the […]