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Event Report: Cybercrime Laws and Regulations: Implications for Press Freedom and Human Rights in Africa

Introduction On November 30, at the sidelines of the Global Conference on Cyber Capacity Building (GC3B) in Accra, Ghana, the International Press Institute, Global Partners Digital, and the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) hosted a side event under the theme: Cybercrime laws and regulations: implications for press freedom and human rights in Africa.  In […]

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Africa Media Monitoring November 2023: Threats to press freedom in Guinea, Mali and DRC

In November 2023, IPI documented 24 threats to press freedom in 9 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Censorship (10) was the most common category of threats. IPI recorded the highest number of incidents in Guinea. State actors remain the main perpetrators, responsible for 75% of the recorded attacks on journalists and media, with the police or […]

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IPI publishes new toolkit on press freedom frameworks in Senegal

IPI’s monitoring has documented a troubling rise in press freedom threats and violations this year in Senegal, including unlawful arrest and detention of journalists as well as instances of censorship. In June, July, and August 2023, the government shut down the internet during public demonstrations and blocked TikTok. Another example is the case of journalist […]

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UDHR75: States must urgently recommit to protecting freedom of the press and journalists’ safety

As UN member states gather in Geneva this week to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the IPI global network calls on states and the international community to take urgent and concrete action to protect freedom of the press and journalists’ safety — and to recommit to upholding the […]

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