News

On 24 February 2023, it will be one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) are launching a new fundraising campaign to support Ukrainian...

On 3 February, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and its partners co-signed the following letter to the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti (VV), following the appointment of a...

The MFRR Summit is back! This year, the conference titled “Press Freedom on the Line” will take place online from 29 – 31 March 2023.   Reflecting the MFRR’s core...

A new Centre for the Safety of Journalists and Media Workers has been established in Thessaloniki (Greece). The centre, whose opening was delayed by two years due to Covid-19 restrictions,...

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) fully supports the call by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, to impose a moratorium on the use of highly...

President of the Republic of Srpska Milorad Dodik has requested to re-introduce defamation and insults as “criminal offences” in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Srpska, one of the...

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) mandate covers all EU member states and candidate countries.   On 15 December 2022, the leaders of the European Union voted unanimously to grant...

Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS) has launched a platform for the safety of journalists “On the line” (https://prvalinija.nuns.rs/), which contains resources and tools that help newsrooms and journalists act...

Ukrainian journalists’ organizations are sounding the alarm. The new Media Law signed by President Zelensky threatens media freedom. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) call on the European...

> Dogs maul journalist to death   Belgrade-based journalist and analyst Vladan Radosavljević (62) succumbed on 4th January after being attacked by dogs in a village on Mount Kosmaj, close...

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today publishes its position on the draft proposal for the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), which was adopted by its Steering Committee in Brussels...

NEW YORK – The human rights crisis in the world in 2022 deepened with the war in Ukraine, the insistence on the „zero covid“ policy, and the rule of the...