This briefing paper, presented by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), aims to provide insight into the evolving political landscape of Syria. It seeks to highlight the significant developments ...

Despite sustained pushback from civil society and digital rights groups, Zambia has enacted sweeping cyber laws that threaten fundamental freedoms under the guise of countering terrorism and ...

The World Press Freedom Index 2025 records an ongoing wave of media outlet shutdowns globally. It also identifies 42 countries where press freedom is now "entirely absent".

Current draft legislation removes the threat of imprisonment, but still leaves journalists, publishers, and others involved in public debate at risk of criminal defamation proceedings.

A new report by PEN Norway examines how Kurdish journalists, writers and activists are discriminated against in the Turkish legal system due to official attitudes towards their native language.

Un nuevo informe publicado por el Fondo para el Periodismo en el Exilio destaca la resiliencia y el papel crucial de los medios independientes que continúan informando desde el exilio.

The ongoing detention of journalist Blessed Mhlanga on unfounded charges highlights Zimbabwe’s escalating assault on press freedom and free expression.

Signatories urge the government of Nepal and Parliament to refrain from developing and implementing legislation that empowers government with overreaching powers, including through overbroad and vague ...

Recent weeks have seen journalists receive death threats, and several police raids on CSOs that work on human rights and access to information. Our organisations further note with alarm raids by ...

January 2025 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression and civic space round-up produced by IFEX's regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region China, Myanmar, and ...

We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese journalists bravely reporting amid life-threatening risks and demand that all governments, press freedom organisations, and human rights bodies ...

IFEX's Asia-Pacific editor Mong Palatino features the work of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and civil society groups in promoting the empowerment of environmental activists and land rights ...