When Hazel Sheffield, a British freelance investigative journalist, heard that swathes of Estonian forests were being felled to feed Western Europe’s growing appetite for renewable energy, she was hooked. “It was instantly kind of weird and interesting,” she recalled. Sheffield was referring to western Europe’s booming biomass industry, which delivers a steady supply of wood […]

On March 2, 2021, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced a 128-page “Human Rights Action Plan” (İnsan Hakları Eylem Planı in Turkish) consisting of nine primary objectives and 50 goals based on 11 basic principles and 393 action points to improve the implementation and protection of human rights in Turkey. The plan is to be implemented over a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the detention of journalists covering a protest in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Russia. On Tuesday April 7, at least five journalists and media workers were detained as they were reporting from […]

The IPI global press freedom network today denounced the latest squeeze on investigative media in Russia and called for international condemnation over the move by Russian authorities to ban the independent outlet Proekt and label several of its journalists “foreign agents”. The move by the Prosecutor General’s office, which effectively outlaws the media outlet and […]