International Day to End Impunity
For this year’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists (IDEI), IFEX is focusing on illegal surveillance as a tactic that threatens journalists’ safety, and drawing attention to how impunity creates the conditions under which it continues to thrive.
Year-round, IFEX members work to bring the perpetrators of attacks on journalists and rights defenders to justice, and to establish conditions that will make it harder for them to commit such crimes in the first place.
As IFEX Executive Director Annie Game writes in her op-ed marking IDEI, ending impunity for illegal surveillance is a critically important part of this work.
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Cambodian government urged to step up the fight against impunity for crimes against journalists
Several civil society groups have released a joint statement urging the Cambodian government to implement urgent measures to protect the safety of journalists in the country. Since 1994, at least 17 journalists have been killed in Cambodia.
China: Foreign press group calls for full access to Beijing’s Winter Olympics
Foreign media groups urged Chinese authorities and the International Olympic Committee to improve international media access to Winter Olympic Games events and reporting guidelines.
China urged to release gravely ill activist Zhang Zhan
Human Rights Watch calls for the urgent release of activist and former lawyer Zhang Zhan in China after her family said she is in desperate need of medical care. Zhang was imprisoned for her independent reporting in Wuhan during the coronavirus outbreak.
Organisations call on Nicaraguan government to provide guarantees for freedom of independent press
We reiterate our solidarity and support for Nicaraguan media outlets and journalists, including those in exile, as they continue to carry out their work of providing information to the country’s citizens, and call on the Nicaraguan authorities to provide guarantees for press freedom.
Ending impunity for crimes against journalists in MENA
IFEX joins the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and rights groups in marking the International Day to End Impunity by calling for an end to impunity for perpetrators of crimes against journalists in the MENA region.
Palestine: Journalists face targeted physical attacks by Israeli forces
Israel has been responsible for 91% of direct physical attacks on Palestinian journalists over the past five years, reveals a new report from the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA).
