The International Press Institute (IPI) and IPI’s Turkey National Committee mark Human Rights Day on December 10 with an annual campaign in Turkey highlighting the stifled media environment and continued attacks on press freedom. This year, IPI collaborated with two of Turkey’s last remaining critical satire magazines, LeMan and Bayan Yanı, to create cover pages […]

This article is published in collaboration with the Daily Star in Bangladesh, as part of a content series supported by the IPI South Asia cross-border journalism project, which aims to support press freedom and promote the safety of journalists in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Nepal. “The only security of all is in a free press,” Thomas Jefferson, famous […]

Press freedom remains strong in Portugal. The country is democratically stable and the risks of government interference in the media are low. Both the constitution and the national Press Law safeguard journalists in their daily reporting. But there are some areas of concern: journalists’ deteriorating work conditions and precarity, as well as significant concentration of media […]

The IPI global network reiterates its call on Somali authorities to immediately drop charges against Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, the secretary general of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS). Mumin was arrested twice in October and faces multiple criminal charges in retaliation for his work in defense of press freedom and independent journalism in Somalia. Authorities must […]