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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...

Several journalists and media workers working on environmental and climate stories have been subjected to threats and obstruction to press work in 2022, hindering the right to information of the...

ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.   An internal investigation by ByteDance, the parent company...

N1 Croatia is becoming part of one of the latest European centres for combating disinformation.   In early December, the European Commission selected six new regional hubs that will become...

In consultation and in agreement with Minister of the Interior Bratislav Gasic, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic has ordered that the Draft Law on Internal Affairs be withdrawn from the...