Leer en español With media professionals across Mexico continuing to face high levels of violent crime, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the World Editors Forum (WEF) and the International Press Institute (IPI) call on the federal government to do more to protect journalists and reverse the prevailing culture of impunity. President […]

Read in English Frente al gran número de profesionales de los medios de información mexicanos que continúan haciendo frente a elevados niveles de violencia, la Asociación Mundial de Periódicos y Editores de Noticias (WAN-IFRA), el World Editors Forum (WEF) y el Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI) instan al Gobierno Federal de México a hacer […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today cautiously welcomed the exclusion, in a resolution approved on Friday by an Organisation of American States (OAS) Special General Assembly, of provisions designed to weaken the Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, the bloc’s free-speech watchdog. Most significantly, the government of Ecuador – and its allies in Venezuela, Bolivia, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Guatemalan authorities to conduct a swift and comprehensive investigation into the killing of journalist Jaime Napoleón Jarquín Duarte on Wednesday, March 22. According to reports, Jarquín was chatting with three friends in a small store in Ciudad Pedro de Álvaro, in the municipality of Moyuta, along Guatemala’s southern […]