The Global Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, at its meeting held in Vienna, Austria, on 17 June, 2011, agreed to adopt the following resolutions on the Americas and Turkey by unanimous vote of the members present. Members who voted in favour of the resolutions included representatives from the International Press Institute (IPI), the International […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the shooting of a photojournalist in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The news photographer, from Britain’s Press Association, was shot in the leg Tuesday night, the second day of sectarian clashes between Protestants and Catholics. The Press Association’s Deputy Ireland Editor Steven McCafferty confirmed to IPI that the photographer was […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), calls on the police authorities in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to protect journalists from physical threat. On 13 June 2011, a group of journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia gathered in a village near Bijeljina (Republika Srpska, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the brutal assault on an American freelance journalist and a British human rights activist in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. Amanda Erickson and Celia Davies Carys were followed to their home at around midnight on 15 June and attacked by four unidentified men outside the women’s apartment building, […]