H.E. Leonid Kuchma President Office of the President Vul. Bankova 11 252005 Kiev Ukraine Fax: +380-44-293 10 01 / 293 73 64 / 291 61 61 Vienna, 9 March 2004 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, is deeply concerned about […]

Lea en español Brazil is booming. Latin America’s largest and most populous nation recently surpassed the United Kingdom to become the world’s sixth-largest economy – and is projected to move up one more spot by the end of 2012. Oil production has skyrocketed, while poverty has hit historic lows.  The country will host both the […]

On March 1, the Day of the Journalist in Nicaragua, 470 journalists from around the world signed a letter to demand the implementation of urgent measures to guarantee freedom of expression. The document, which was symbolically given to journalists during an online event, condemned the attacks of the regime led by President Daniel Ortega and […]

Friday marked the anniversary of the assassination of journalist Deyda Hydara in The Gambia in 2004. As a founder and editor of The Point newspaper, Hydara was known for his criticism of President Yahya Jammeh’s iron-fisted rule. Jammeh is still president, but eight years on, Hydara’s killers have not been brought to justice. Moreover, privately-owned […]