The focus of the 2017 IFEX strategy Conference was our version of the '3 Rs' – Rights, Resistance and Resilience. In other words, what our members fight for, the way they fight and how they endure the often relentless attacks on their work and organisations promoting our rights. But the conference was also about networks: the internet, collaborative working and friendship.
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