Members of the International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Germany and other EU member states, as well as the EU itself, to embrace their role as defenders of human rights globally, including the rights to freedom of expression and the press, amid troubling times for media freedom. The members made the call in a resolution […]

“Eskinder Nega’s courage made him a familiar name, a symbol of resistance for many Ethiopians,” exiled Ethiopian journalist and human rights activist Mesfin Negash told attendees of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2017 World Congress in Hamburg on Thursday as he accepted IPI’s 2017 World Press Freedom Hero award on behalf of Nega, who remains […]

Read this article in English. El periodista Luciano Rivera Salgado fue asesinado el pasado lunes en Rosarito, México, justo el día en el que se cumplían dos años de los asesinatos de la colonia Narvarte, uno de los casos que conmocionó al mundo en el que el fotoperiodista Rubén Espinosa, junto a cuatro activistas, fueron […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) marked World Press Freedom Day 2017 with a public demonstration of support for journalists imprisoned for their work in Turkey, and with a video message warning of the increasing deterioration in levels of press freedom worldwide and of the emerging trends in attempts by governments and others to stifle independent […]