The latest updates on IMS, our partners and global events concerning press freedom.
Through support in innovation, business sustainability, and audience engagement, a new initiative will empower media organisations to continue their critical role in upholding democracy and fostering informed public discourse across Europe.
IMS, EAVE and CPH:DOX are proud to announce the fourth round of the CHANGE programme, empowering documentary film projects from the European Eastern Partnership countries. For the 2024/2025 line-up, eight teams from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine will join the co-production training workshop series.
Media development actors have joined forces to call for systematic change in the way journalism is funded and supported.
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.
