The IPI global network is alarmed by a new report by internet watchdogs and digital rights advocacy groups uncovering the use of Pegasus, a controversial spyware developed by the Israeli cyber-arms company NSO Group, to target journalists and other civil society actors during the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The latest revelations are another […]

From 5-7 June 2023, the International Press Institute (IPI) joined the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), Free Press Unlimited (FPU), and the Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT) a fact-finding mission to North Macedonia, organised by the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (ZNM). While we recognise progress […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) global network is alarmed by the repressive arrest of retired journalist Iryna Levchenko in Melitopol, a city in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, occupied by Russian forces since March 2022. According to relatives in touch with the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), Levchenko went missing around May 6 along with […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins the undersigned international press freedom organisations in expressing our deep concerned about the recent wave of violent attacks on journalists in Kosovo, which has been the most intense in the country’s recent history. We jointly call on the authorities to immediately put in place the necessary measures to […]