Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

IPI urges Turkey to halt series of Syrian journalist murders

Turkey’s government must do more to end a series of murders of Syrian journalists who have fled to the country, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today after a fourth journalist was killed in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Halab Today TV presenter Mohammed Zahir al-Sherqat died on Tuesday from injuries he […]

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IPI urges Tonga PM to end harassment of local journalist

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined 28 other members of IFEX in calling on Tongan Prime Minister Samuela ʻAkilisi Pohiva to end the harassment of local journalist Viola Ulakai and to cease threats to have her suspended. Ulakai, head of programmes and news at the publicly-owned Tonga Broadcasting Commission (TBC), had been urging the […]

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En peligro la existencia de la CIDH por falta de financiación

Read this statement in English. El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés), escritores y miembros de la red de Intercambio Internacional por la Libertad de Expresión (IFEX) instan a todos los estados miembros, observadores permanentes y otros donantes potenciales de la OEA a que reconsideren su falta de apoyo económico […]

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Inter-American rights body facing serious financial crisis

Lea este comunicado español The International Press Institute (IPI), writers and members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) have urged all OAS member states, permanent observers and other potential donors to reconsider their financial support of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which the body says it urgently needs to continue to […]

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