Today the world marks the 10-year anniversary of the single deadliest attack on the media in modern times. On November 23, 2009, 32 journalists along with 26 civilians were kidnapped from their convoy by armed gunmen and brutally murdered in the Philippine province of Maguindanao. Some were beheaded, female reporters were raped, and all their […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, has joined more than 25 other press freedom and media development organizations in a statement calling on participating states at this week’s Global Media Freedom Conference in London to take credible steps toward improving media freedom. Read […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, has urged Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to condemn ongoing attacks by politicians in his party and others on investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald, co-founder of the news website The Intercept and a resident of Brazil, has faced […]

We, the undersigned international freedom of expression organisations, welcome the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted on 26 June, condemning the continued impunity for the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and broader systemic rule of law shortcomings in Malta, and inter alia, calling for the launch of an […]