The Global Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, of which the International Press Institute is a member, has endorsed a resolution by the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA), another member, naming 2011 “The Year of Freedom of Expression in the Western Hemisphere”. IPI and other committee members agreed in a meeting on 10 December in New […]

Zambian authorities have closed, and confiscated equipment from a radio station in Western Province, where riots over the region’s autonomy have already resulted in the deaths of at least two people, local news sources report. On Tuesday last week, a spokesperson for the government announced that live phone-in programmes on the subject of the Barotse […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns a written attack by the Kosovo Liberation Army’s Veterans Association against journalist Halil Matoshi, a columnist for the daily Koha Ditore. On 6 January […]

The European Union’s Telecoms Chief said on Monday that Hungary’s new media law may violate EU laws on press freedom and broadcasting. European Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes told the European Parliament in a speech that she had contacted Hungarian authorities “to raise specific points on which the media law does not appear at first […]