Following a three-day mission to Suriname as part of a six-country mission to the Caribbean, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today it looks forward to working with the Surinamese government on a legislative package that would decriminalise libel and insult as well as institute self-regulatory mechanisms to oversee media standards in the country. In […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and other leading international press freedom groups today urged British Prime Minister David Cameron to take immediate steps to safeguard press freedom and to ensure that his government’s actions are not used to justify media restrictions elsewhere in the world. IPI and other members of the Global Coordinating Committee of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) yesterday joined a coalition of 70 organisations to warn British Prime Minister David Cameron that his “government’s response to the revelations of mass surveillance of digital communications is eroding fundamental human rights in the country”. The groups, hailing from 40 countries, told Cameron in a letter published yesterday in The […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined with six other global media freedom groups in calling on Queen Elizabeth II not to sign a proposed Royal Charter that could re-impose statutory regulation of the press in the United Kingdom. The full text of the letter appears below. *********************************************************** COMMONWEALTH PRESS UNION MEDIA TRUST, London, UK […]