Journalism in Turkey is “agonizing under unbearable pressure”, leading Turkish journalist and Chair of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Turkish National Committee Kadri Gürsel said on Monday in an address to participants gathered in Warsaw for Europe’s largest annual human rights conference. Gürsel made the remarks during a session chaired by OSCE Representative on Freedom […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, but it said much more needed to be done to improve press freedom in the country. “We are pleased that this years-long nightmare for our colleagues appears finally to be drawing […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is pleased to join the Österreichische Photographische Gesellschaft and Edition Lammerhuber in recognising Belgian photographer Patricia Willocq as the winner of the 2015 Alfred Fried Photography Award for peace photography Willocq was honoured for her photo series “Look at me, I am beautiful”, which shows scenes of happiness in which […]

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (OSCE RFoM), Dunja Mijatovic, has released a list of recommendations directed at OSCE states, media organisations and social media platforms for countering the online harassment and abuse of female journalists. The recommendations aim to combat a new form of silencing critical journalism that, paradoxically, has emerged from […]