The organization Women Journalists Without Chains has released a new report titled “The Future of Press Freedom in Libya: Navigating a Minefield in Darkness,” highlighting the major challenges facing press freedom in Libya. The report warns that the current conditions are regressing to restrictions similar to those seen during the Gaddafi era, indicating an almost […]

Lost in Europe on Wednesday won the 2024 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for its investigation into the disappearance of over 50 000 unaccompanied child migrants. The investigation, run by media from Germany, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and the UK revealed that at least 51 433 unaccompanied child migrants disappeared after arriving in […]

On Thursday, Parliament denounced Azerbaijan’s poor human rights record and called on the EU to end its gas dependency on Baku. In a resolution adopted today, MEPs strongly condemn the Azerbaijan regime’s longstanding domestic and extraterritorial repression of activists, journalists, opposition leaders, and others, including EU nationals, which has noticeably intensified ahead of the upcoming […]

Media Advisory: hearings of the Commissioners-designate Press Releases 25-10-2024 – 14:46  This note provides information on the confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate, scheduled from 4 – 12 November. You can check the detailed schedule of the confirmation hearings as well as the answers by the Commissioners-designate to the written questions prepared by the different committees. Meeting rooms The hearings […]

Three Lebanese journalists were killed early Friday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their residence while they were sleeping in the town of Hasbaya in southern Lebanon. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the incident, saying it was part of a series of war crimes committed by the Israeli enemy. The Lebanese National News Agency […]

On Tuesday, MEPs paved the way for improved management of European airspace, enabling more direct flights and fewer delays, and supporting climate neutrality. The reform of Single European Sky rules, already agreed upon in negotiations with the Council last March, strengthens national performance plans for air navigation services and will help to improve EU airspace […]

Amid the months-long war, Israel has emerged as the world’s leading jailer of journalists for the first time ever, holding 17 journalists as of December 1, 2023, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ annual census of journalists in prison. The number of Palestinian journalists in prison is the highest since CPJ began documenting journalist […]