“A really big question online is, what’s the responsibility of the business sector, the corporate actors? Because when we are talking about online speech and harassment, most of it happens in places owned by private actors, they are not government. That’s actually is a very risky area right now: What responsibilities do we put on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over reports of an escalation in online harassment of journalists in Trinidad and Tobago ahead of elections scheduled later this year. One Caribbean Media reported that a number of their journalists, many of them investigative reporters, and particularly female reporters, have been the subject of character attacks […]

Turkish authorities’ failure to safeguard – and, in some cases, their active steps to undermine – the right to share and receive information has led to serious deficiencies in the country’s democracy, placing its future at serious risk, a special report released today by the International Press Institute (IPI) concludes. The report, “Democracy at Risk” […]

Lea este artículo en español Since Spain’s Public Security Law, known as the “gag law”, took effect on June 30 last year, the number of court cases challenging the measure’s constitutionality or asserting that certain provisions violate fundamental human rights has proliferated. But despite disapproval of the law by a majority of the Spanish public […]