The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), today expressed concern at statements by Turkey’s prime minister condemning the publication of minutes allegedly taken in a meeting between lawmakers and the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to discuss peace negotiations with Turkey’s government. Prime […]

This Friday, at the invitation of the Ecuadorean government, state parties to the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights will meet in Guayaquil, Ecuador to discuss proposed reforms to the inter-American human rights system. The outcome of this gathering, whose results will be presented at an Organization of American States (OAS) Special General Assembly meeting on […]

Following is the text of a letter addressed by IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie to the media and state representatives of Kenya on the occasion of the national elections on March 4, 2013 Today Kenyans go to the polls to elect a new president, and in the event that no candidate has an absolute […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged the Indonesian authorities to conduct a swift and comprehensive investigation into the violent attack on journalist Normila Sari Wahyuni on Sunday, March 3. Wahyuni, a reporter for Paser TV, a channel that airs locally in the Paser region, was attacked as she reported on a land dispute in […]