The latest updates on IMS, our partners and global events concerning press freedom.
Daily bombings, despair and disillusionment paired with a strong-willed insistence to continue working. Those are reoccurring sentiments among IMS partners working in Gaza and the West Bank.
By launching a group of experts tasked to advise on online regulation, IMS works to reclaim the digital space for truth and inclusivity, with a special focus on Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Young people want to be involved, but they’re looking for new ways to participate in society - a new festival showed a way forward.
IMS joins 59 other organisations in calling on the EU to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel in response to the unprecedented number of journalists killed and other repeated press freedom violations by the Israeli authorities since the start of the war.
Given the current electoral situation in Venezuela, the undersigned international organisations and regional networks defending freedom of the press and expression express their concern about the attacks against national and international journalists who are documenting the events happening in the country, as well as activists, demonstrators, and the general population. We urge the Venezuelan authorities to fulfil their obligation to guarantee and protect the exercise of freedom of expression and peaceful association, as well as to guarantee the safety of journalists working in the country.
GFMD renews its urgent call to ensure robust commitments to access to information and media freedom as necessary preconditions for peace and development in the UN Pact for the Future.
IMS joins 25 other CSOs in calling on the European Commission President to ensure that media freedom, the protection of journalists and EU citizens’ access to public interest journalism remain high political priorities.
EAVE, CPH:DOX and IMS are calling for eight teams with documentary projects in development from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Application deadline is Monday, 12 August 2024.
The Kyrgyz independent news outlet Kloop – a pioneer of brave and uncompromising investigative journalism in Central Asia – is the recipient of the 2024 IPI-IMS Free Media Pioneer award.
