Freedom House – Poland Country Report 2017 - Reports

Freedom House's yearly report on press freedom in Poland provides an overview of media freedom in the country during 2016, highlighting main trends and developments

Journalists under pressure - Unwarranted interference, fear and self-censorship in Europe - Reports

Interference, surveillance and fear of negative consequences push European journalists towards self-censorship

Digital rights in Russia 2017 - Reports

An analysis by Article 19 on the deterioration of freedom of expression online in Russia

Media against Hate – Media literacy Workshops - Opportunities

The second media literacy workshop organised by CMFE and COMMIT will take place in Olsztyn, Poland, on June 8-9, 2017.

Pihl v. Sweden: Pushing Online Intermediaries Towards Private Censorship and Deanonymisation? - Legal Resources

The recent decision by the ECtHR in Pihl v. Sweden marks a new step in the definition of the emerging jurisprudence on liability of online intermediaries

Initiative for Freedom of Expression - Stakeholders

Initiative for Freedom of Expression is a Turkey-based association and movement of civil disobedience, working on the right to freedom of expression. It is a member of the global network IFEX . 

Since 2000, it publishes annual reports on the situation of freedom of expression in Turkey and distributes them among the main Non-Governmental Organizations, as well as to the media institutions. Every week, the Initiative publishes a Weekly Bulletin  in Turkish and in English. Since 1997, it organizes biennial "Gatherings for Freedom of Expression" in Istanbul. Together with other stakeholders, it created the ÇTL database (Current Trial Library), recording thought crime cases. It opened a virtual and interactive Museum of the Crimes of Thought . 

Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Journalism in the digital age: responding to propaganda and fake news - Opportunities

The Summer School is organised by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florance, and will take place on 5-9 June 2017

Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study - Reports

This study examines the existence and the subsequent implementation of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Joint declaration on freedom of expression and “fake news”, disinformation and propaganda - Legal Resources

UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media call all relevant actors to take steps in countering fake news and propaganda

IPI database of online violence against journalists - Datasets

OnTheLine is IPI’s project to monitor systematically online harassment and digital attacks against journalists, to build guidelines to counter online harassment and provide technical and legal response to victims of digital attacks