In the Americas, constraints and pressures on civic space are mounting. While recent years have seen a rise in troubling legislation restricting access to information and enabling state surveillance, ...

A wave of laws cloaked in the language of national security, international compliance, and public morality is sweeping across Africa. These measures silence individuals and dismantle the organisations ...

The proposed visa change serves no purpose other than to erect unnecessary barriers for foreign reporters and will produce a chilling effect on press freedom.

Automated moderation on social media is blocking Arabic sexual and reproductive health content, leaving activists scrambling to keep vital information accessible.

Your State has committed to ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms. This is what the Sustainable Development Goal 16.10 affirms. Is your government meeting its commitment ...

While PECA has been used to stifle journalists, it has also been used to intimidate the country’s various marginalised communities. Journalist Kunwar Khuldune Shahid explores the effects of Pakistan’s ...

Sulemana Braimah evaluates the critical role of the media through three decades of Ghana's political history. This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 10 July 2023. The speech below was ...

Mexico was the first recorded government client and most prolific user of the Pegasus spyware, but ambitions in the use of AI have outpaced the development of legislative tools and standards. Though ...

Repression has permeated every sector of society, targeting journalists, civil society actors, women, and even ordinary citizens who express dissenting views. This statement was originally published ...

IFEX December 2024 brief: Regional Editor Reyhana Masters takes a deep dive into the issues that dominated the electoral landscape in some of the countries that held elections across the continent in ...

Journalist Parami Nilepthi Ranasinghe was ordered to stop reporting for Sri Lanka's national television Rupavahini, after the president's office informed the network that she criticized the government ...

Red-baiting incidents against media practitioners have worsened under the Duterte administration. This statement was originally published on cmfr-phil.org on 20 September 2019. To the many perils of ...