"The Online Safety Act is a threat to the privacy of users, restricts free expression by arbitrating speech online, exposes users to algorithmic discrimination through face checks, and leaves millions ...

As the use of technology rises, so does the prevalence of online abuse against women, spotlighting the need for urgent interventions like the implementation of ACHPR Resolution 522.

While PECA has been used to stifle journalists, it has also been used to intimidate the country’s various marginalised communities. Journalist Kunwar Khuldune Shahid explores the effects of Pakistan’s ...

How Egypt's Public Prosecution expanded its powers in recent years to monitor internet users, and violate their right to privacy and freedom of expression.

We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese journalists bravely reporting amid life-threatening risks and demand that all governments, press freedom organisations, and human rights bodies ...

Red-baiting incidents against media practitioners have worsened under the Duterte administration. This statement was originally published on cmfr-phil.org on 20 September 2019. To the many perils of ...

Signatories urge the government of Nepal and Parliament to refrain from developing and implementing legislation that empowers government with overreaching powers, including through overbroad and vague ...

Sulemana Braimah evaluates the critical role of the media through three decades of Ghana's political history.

April 5 will be 245 days since 4G mobile internet was suspended in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, causing immense hardship and disruption of civilian life as well as violating the public’s ...

Recent weeks have seen journalists receive death threats, and several police raids on CSOs that work on human rights and access to information. Our organisations further note with alarm raids by ...

Your State has committed to ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms. This is what the Sustainable Development Goal 16.10 affirms. Is your government meeting its commitment ...

The latest Women in News survey on sexual harassment in African media organisations highlights that 1 in every 2 women working in the media sector, experiences some form of sexual harassment.