10 June 2025 Statements Under pressure: protecting media freedom in the EU and beyond24 June, 2025, 15:00 CET Hilton Warsaw City, Warsaw, Poland As part of the World Justice Forum, taking place from 23 to 27 June 2025 in Warsaw, OBCT organises a…
03 May 2025 Statements Turkey’s Intensifying Media Crackdown Threatens Press FreedomOn World Press Freedom Day, the International Press Institute (IPI), European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urge Turkish authorities to cease all…
02 May 2025 Advocacy missions Country reports Serbia: Media freedom in a state of emergencyOn the eve of World Press Freedom Day, the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today shares alarming findings about the deteriorating state of press and media freedom in Serbia. The…
16 April 2025 Monitoring Fact Sheet: More than 5,000 press freedom violations in Europe since 2020Since the beginning of the MFRR project in 2020, the Mapping Media Freedom (MapMF) database has documented a steady rise of press freedom violations in EU Member States and Candidate…
28 March 2025 Statements Serbia: Spyware attacks on BIRN journalists further deepen press freedom crisisThe partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today raise further alarm about the deepening press freedom crisis in Serbia in the wake of revelations showing evidence of…
17 February 2025 Statements Denmark: Condemnation of legal threats against Danwatch by Ingosstrakh and ELWIWe, the undersigned media freedom and journalists’ organizations, express our condemnation of the legal threats issued by the Moscow-based law firm ELWI on behalf of the Russian insurance company Ingosstrakh…
12 February 2025 Monitoring Monitoring Report 2024: 1,548 media freedom alerts in the past yearThe latest annual Monitoring Report analyses the press freedom situation in 35 European countries, including the 27 EU Member States and nine countries with EU candidate status. Between January and…
05 February 2025 Statements Turkey: Media Freedom organisations call for action as press freedom violations surge in Turkey in 2025The International Press Institute (IPI), together with undersigned press freedom, freedom of expression, human rights, and journalists’ organisations, and media outlets, expresses serious concern over the recent escalation of press…