At a meeting on Feb. 27 with International Press Institute members in Nepal, IPI Senior Press Freedom Adviser Barbara Trionfi said that Nepal must ensure strong constitutional guarantees for freedom of expression. The meeting was held following an International Media Mission visit to Nepal where international media and press freedom groups, including IPI, met with […]

British photographer Paul Conroy has reportedly been safely evacuated to Lebanon, while the whereabouts of French correspondent Edith Bouvier remain unconfirmed, nearly a week after the journalists were injured in an assault that killed Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and photojournalist Remi Ochlik. “We welcome the reported safe evacuation of Paul Conroy, but are deeply […]

Lawyers representing embattled former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner on Friday notified a Trinidadian journalist, Lasana Liburd, that their client planned to sue for libel and defamation over a series of articles linking Warner to missing emergency aid money for Haiti. As the International Press Institute (IPI) reported last week, Liburd had followed up on […]

Read in English El presidente ecuatoriano, Rafael Correa, anunció el lunes que ha concedido indultos en dos casos de alto perfil relacionados con injuria y los medios de comunicación. En uno, el diario El Universo había sido condenado a pagar 40 millones de dólares en daños y perjuicios mientras sus tres directores, así como un […]