Leer en español With media professionals across Mexico continuing to face high levels of violent crime, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the World Editors Forum (WEF) and the International Press Institute (IPI) call on the federal government to do more to protect journalists and reverse the prevailing culture of impunity. President […]

Read in English Frente al gran número de profesionales de los medios de información mexicanos que continúan haciendo frente a elevados niveles de violencia, la Asociación Mundial de Periódicos y Editores de Noticias (WAN-IFRA), el World Editors Forum (WEF) y el Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI) instan al Gobierno Federal de México a hacer […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed grave disappointment over remarks made by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar during a speech on Monday, in which she asserted that “rogue elements” in the country’s media were “either wilfully or unwittingly misinforming the society” through negative coverage of the government. In the address, which was […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today cautiously welcomed the exclusion, in a resolution approved on Friday by an Organisation of American States (OAS) Special General Assembly, of provisions designed to weaken the Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, the bloc’s free-speech watchdog. Most significantly, the government of Ecuador – and its allies in Venezuela, Bolivia, […]