President George Maxwell Richards, a former principal and pro vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, will address participants attending the IPI World Congress in Trinidad and Tobago this June, the International Press Institute (IPI) announced today. A professor emeritus in chemical engineering at the University of the West Indies, Richards was sworn into […]

It has been a bad few weeks for the Palestinian media. On Monday Apr. 2, Yousef Al-Shayeb, the latest journalist to be held for investigation by the Palestinian Authority (P.A.), was released on bail pending trial – but faces defamation charges and a claim for 6 million U.S. dollars from the plaintiffs.  The same day, […]

In January 2012, Albania’s prime minister, Sali Berisha, declared that his administration would decriminalise slander and on Feb. 17 and Mar. 1, 2012 two sets of reforms, both to the civil and penal code, were voted on in the parliament. However, in February 2012 the Director for Public Relations at the Council of Ministers, Gjovalin […]

Burma has experienced great political change over the past year, including a welcomed reform of the country’s media laws in June 2011 that allowed some publications to publish stories without previous approval by the government’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Department (PSRD). Yesterday Burma saw a historic by-election, which the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) […]