– Maldives: Opposition candidates barred from election (Demo)

Prominent human rights defender Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli is still being held at the Central Prison in Kuwait and risks facing deportation…

Lebanon: “All of them, means all of them!” Mass protests swept across Lebanon last month as citizens took to the…

The UN Human Rights Committee has published its Concluding Observations regarding the situation in Pakistan. The Experts heeded concerns noted…

Naji has served 10 months of a sentence imposed in February 2016 for ‘violating public modesty’. The court suspended his…

This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 11 September 2020. Secretary-General António Guterres United Nations Room NL-3019 New York,…

This is the foreword to the MEAA report into the state of press freedom in Australia in 2018. Source: MEDIA…

This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 28 April 2020. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns an op-ed by a…

This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.net on 23 October 2019. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has adopted by…

The national security service (ANR) arrested Benjamin Mutiya, a reporter at the community station Radio Télévision Communautaire de Walikale (RTCWA),…

This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 1 April 2020. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined nine other press…

For many of us, the reality of COVID-19 went from being a distant tremble on the horizon to a full-on…

A court commuted Mirsaidov's 12 year jail sentence to payment of a fine and damages; he had been detained for…

This statement was originally published on ifj.org on 4 October 2019. Nepali journalist and union leader Ajaya Babu Shiwakoti has…

While the internet creates new possibilities for children to express themselves, pervasive monitoring deeply undermines the value of these opportunities….

As WhatsApp has become a key platform for disseminating news and information, for groups of friends and media houses alike,…