In voting last month to repeal their country’s centuries-old blasphemy law, Danish lawmakers joined a growing trend in Europe toward securing free speech on matters related to religion. A comprehensive IPI study on criminal defamation and insult laws published in March by the Representative on Freedom of the Media of the Organization for Security and […]

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today released a comparative study “Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region” finding that criminal law remains an instrument to excessively limit media freedom. Commissioned by the representative and conducted by International Press Institute (IPI) Director of Press […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined 34 other civil society organisations in calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to put human rights, especially free expression and press freedom, at the heart of Canada’s “renewed” relationship with China. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang recently visited Canada for talks with Prime Minister Trudeau, during which an agreement […]

Tickets may be sold out, but you can still catch tonight’s discussion on media freedom and democracy in Turkey as it moves beyond its second parliamentary election this year via livestream. The Montreal event, presented by the International Press Institute (IPI) and Concordia University’s Thinking Out Loud series, will bring together veteran Turkish journalist and […]