The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Italy to decriminalise defamation after the country’s Senate rejected a measure that would have retained imprisonment as a possible penalty for the offence. The Senate’s 123-29 vote yesterday reversed its approval earlier this month of an amendment to existing law that would have seen journalists convicted of libel […]

IPI is offering reduced registration rates for its annual World Congress, to be held in Amman, Jordan, from May 19-21, 2013. The deadline for Early Bird registration is December 25. Early registration will save you almost 30% off IPI’s regular Congress rates. Early Bird Registration Rates: Members: €810 Non-Members: €900 Accompanying Persons: €350 Titled “Documenting […]

  Well over 100 journalists have been killed so far this year – the highest number since the International Press Institute (IPI) began keeping count of journalists’ deaths in 1997. All across the world – from Africa, Asia and Europe, to the Middle East and Latin America – journalists continue to be systematically and brutally […]

At least 48 journalists have been killed in the line of duty in Pakistan over the last ten years and 35 of them were deliberately targeted and murdered because of their work. In 2012 alone, six journalists were killed in the country. For every journalist who was deliberately targeted and murdered, there are many others […]