News and Press Releases

UK: IFJ backs BBC journalists strike to defend local news

Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland, an IFJ affiliate, working across England for BBC Local will begin a 24-hour…

Europe: Council of Europe report highlights need for independent journalism

The Council of Europe Platform for Protection of Journalism and the Safety of Journalists, together with the International and European and…

Belarus: BAJ labeled ‘extremist group’ by Lukashenko’s regime

The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) has been labeled an ‘extremist group’ by Alyaksandr Lukashenko’s regime, in an obvious act of…

Spain: Daily press workers take to the streets to demand decent wages

More than a hundred works councils, union sections and RLTs, convened by Spanish journalists’ unions CCOO, UGT and FeSP, will take to the streets on 1…

Ukraine: “During war time, we, as journalists, will do our best to provide information”

In the week of the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Dainius Radzevičius, President of the Lithuanian…

Ukraine: “It happened more than once that you no longer ask questions, you just listen,” Ukrainian journalist Hanna Chernenko

Hanna Chernenko is a Kharkiv-based journalist and a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU). She comes from the Luhansk region…

Statement by the Partner Organisations to the Safety of Journalists Platform on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Today, one year after the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Partner Organisations to the Safety of Journalists’…

Independent Russian journalists fear “anything can happen”

As the conflict in Ukraine enters its second year, Russian journalists critical of the Kremlin know that anything can happen to them. 

UK: IFJ and NUJ call for swift action to protect UK-based journalists threatened by Iranian regime

London-based Persian-language broadcaster, Iran International announced on 18 February plans to move its operations to the United States, after…

IFJ suspends Russian union

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today suspended the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) from membership following a vote of the…

Turkey: "Journalists reporting from earthquake- affected areas face safety, hygiene and health problems"

Two weeks after the terrible earthquake that shook Northern Syria and Eastern Turkey, Kenan Şener, Secretary General of the Ankara Journalists…

France: Support for weekly Le Poher, targeted by new death threats and a bomb scare

French weekly Le Poher had to evacuate its office on 20 February 2023 after an anonymous caller said a bomb had been placed in the office in Carhaix,…

France : L'agresseur d'une journaliste de France Télévisions condamné à une peine de prison

Le 17 janvier dernier, le tribunal correctionnel de Béthune a condamné à 5 mois de prison avec sursis un homme qui avait harcelé en ligne, puis menacé…

Ukraine: "The preservation of local media is essential to support Ukrainian democracy"

Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, Sergiy Tomilenko, president of the National Union of Journalists…

Russia : journalist sentenced to six years in prison for Telegram post

Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko has been jailed for six years for posting on Telegram about a deadly attack by Russian warplanes on a theatre in…

Ukraine: "In Kosovo, we have also experienced the difficulty of becoming a refugee"

Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Xhemajl Rexha, president of the Association of Journalists of…

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