IPI World Congress to Focus on Post-Communist Transition Fifteen years after the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and just two weeks after Poland and nine other countries formally join the European Union (EU), the International Press Institute will convene in Warsaw, Poland, for its 2004 World Congress and 53rd General Assembly. Poland’s […]

His Excellency Gen. Pervez Musharraf President Islamic Republic of Pakistan Islamabad Pakistan Fax: + 92-51-922-4206 Vienna, 12 March 2004 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, is concerned about the use of advertising to pressure newspapers in Pakistan into curtailing their […]

Two of the world’s leading press freedom groups, the International Press Institute (IPI) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have criticised the failure of the Ethiopian government to inform the domestic media, civil society and the international community of crucial amendments to the draft press law, as well as set-out a transparent legislative process […]

H.E. Vladimir Putin President of the Russian Federation The Kremlin Moscow Russian Federation Fax: + 7 095 206 51 73 Vienna, 4 March 2004 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, is seriously concerned about the harassment of Rebecca Santana, Moscow correspondent for Cox Newspapers, […]