The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the recent attacks on two radio stations, the detention of a journalist, and the ongoing trials against at least eight others in Eastern Africa. Local Somali radio stations Codka Hiiraan and Dhusamareb were seized on 22 June, and the editor of the latter was detained briefly on the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the passage late last month in Nigeria of a freedom of information bill, termed the Right of Information Act. Nigeria is the second country in West Africa to pass legislation that explicitly protects access to information, a universal human right. “After more than ten years of pushing for […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) will hold its annual World Congress in Trinidad and Tobago, from 23-26 June 2012, the organization today officially announced. The 2012 World Congress will mark the return of IPI’s annual event to the Americas after 12 years – when the world’s media community last gathered in Boston, USA, in 2000 […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), joins two Serbian journalists’ associations in condemning mounting political pressure on Magyar Szo, a Hungarian-language daily in the multiethnic province of Vojvodina, northern Serbia. The National Council of the Hungarian Ethnic Minority, an umbrella organisation of ethnic Hungarians in Serbia, […]