The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), today joined calls urging authorities to investigate Tuesday’s beating of a newspaper editor in central Ukraine. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), citing a report from the Kiev-based Institute for Mass Information (IMI), said yesterday that three unidentified men attacked […]

An Antigua and Barbuda-based online news website reported yesterday that one of its journalists had been shot at several times after covering a West Indies cricket match on Sunday night. According to the website, Caribarena, the incident occurred outside of Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua. The journalist escaped the scene unharmed, while […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and the World Association of Newspapers and Newspaper Publishers (WAN-IFRA) today called for an immediate investigation into the killing of Mexican journalist Jaime Guadalupe González Domínguez in the northern state of Chihuahua on Sunday. According to reports, González, the editor of the news site ojinaganews.com.mx, was intercepted by a group […]

This Friday, at the invitation of the Ecuadorean government, state parties to the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights will meet in Guayaquil, Ecuador to discuss proposed reforms to the inter-American human rights system. The outcome of this gathering, whose results will be presented at an Organization of American States (OAS) Special General Assembly meeting on […]