Latest Events on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Myanmar information minister to IPI World Congress: reforms ‘irreversible’

Myanmar Information Minister U Ye Htut today acknowledged setbacks in the country’s transition to democracy, but he assured participants at the opening ceremony of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2015 World Congress that the reform process “is irreversible”. “There is no turning back”, he said in an address that followed remarks by leaders of IPI […]

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#IPIWoCo Preview: Periodistas de a Pie (en español)

Read this interview in English El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés), habló con Marcela Turati, periodista y representante de Periodistas de a Pie, sobre las condiciones que afrontan los periodistas mexicanos. IPI: ¿Como se sienten ante haber recibido el IPI Free Media Pioneer Award? Turati: Estamos muy honradas y […]

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#IPIWoCo Preview: GroundTruth Project’s Charles Sennott

In a time when journalists are faced with increasingly dangerous situations on the job, how are news organisations banding together to build a culture of safety for journalists in danger zones? Charles M. Sennott, vice president, editor-at-large and co-founder of GlobalPost, will be among the participants examining this question at the International Press Institute’s (IPI) […]

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#IPIWoCo Preview: Mexico’s Periodistas de a Pie

Lea esta entrevista en español How can Mexican journalists – living and reporting in an area that has seen violence against journalists skyrocket in the last decade, leaving a death toll on par with that seen in Syria and Pakistan – do their job safely? What steps can they take to protect their physical security […]

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