The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding (CEMESP-Liberia) has called for urgent action to safeguard press freedom in Liberia, warning of growing threats to journalists despite notable gains made in recent years. In a CEMESP statement issued to mark World Press Freedom Day, celebrated globally on May 3rd, 2026, under the theme “Shaping a Future…
The United States has fallen to a “historic low” in the Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), or Reporters Without Borders, annual press freedom tracker, continuing a decade-long decline, the organisation has said. The report on Thursday recorded a global drop in press freedom indicators in 2025, with, for the first time, more than half of the world’s…
(The Conversation) — As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence, old questions have returned about who belongs and whose religious practices are truly protected in the country. At the start of the year, an arson attack significantly damaged the oldest synagogue in Mississippi. Two days later, local officials in Oklahoma rejected…
The Committee to Protect Journalists wrote to Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema expressing concern over recent attacks on journalists and legislation that negatively impacts the media, as the country prepares to host the United Nations’ World Press Freedom Day 2026 Global Conference on May 3. The letter also calls on Hichilema to create a safe and…
Shorouk Express As we celebrate World News Day, on 28 September, for too many people, the future is getting too dark to see. This moment is best described as living in a state of perpetual flux, of global uncertainty and deep, unsettling insecurity. Our world is increasingly built on information, sometimes almost exclusively, and the news…
Shorouk Express Three years after 24 February 2022, the Europeans have still not grasped the full significance of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and its implications in Ukraine and far beyond. The Americans, aware of what is at stake in terms of global security in the Far East, are clinging to the illusion of an alliance…
Shorouk Express Starmer, leaning forward in his seat, issued a retort to the vice president. He said his government “wouldn’t want to reach across U.S. citizens, and we don’t, and that’s absolutely right.” “But in relation to free speech in the U.K. I’m very proud of our history there,” he added. “We’ve had free speech…
Shorouk Express Hanna Perekhoda is a historian and researcher at the University of Lausanne – Institute of Political Studies and Centre for International History and Political Studies of Globalisation, specialising in nationalism in the context of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. Her doctoral research examines the political strategies of the Bolsheviks in Ukraine between 1917…
Regardless of regional challenges, Tunisia exhibits the very best values in North Africa, whereas Morocco and Algeria are far behind within the rating. General, the Maghreb exhibits a variety of catching as much as do. The 2024 Human Freedom Index, printed by the Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute, assesses freedom in 165 nations throughout…
