A delegation of the International Press Institute (IPI) completed a press freedom mission to Barbados which included four days of meetings with government, media and civil society representatives. The visit to the island was the first stop in IPI’s ongoing four-country mission campaigning for the abolishment of criminal defamation laws in the Caribbean. After Barbados, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is concerned about the safety of journalists in the Middle East and North Africa following a number of press freedom violations that have been reported since the beginning of the month. Recent attacks on journalists in Lebanon, Iraq and Oman, and new laws on the table in Iraq, Egypt and […]

The International Press Institute announced today that it will host an international Oil, Gas and Media Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan from 17-19 September 2012. Held in partnership with IPI’s Azerbaijan National Committee and other sponsors, the three-day summit will bring together representatives from the petrochemical industries, government officials, journalists and other interested groups to discuss […]

The editor-in-chief of Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta yesterday accused the country’s chief investigator of threatening a deputy editor’s life, forcing the deputy editor to flee the country. The Guardian reported that Sergei Sokolov, who oversaw investigative reporting at the Moscow-based Novaya Gazeta, fled the country following the alleged threat by Alexander Bastrykin, who heads Russia’s […]