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What We Do
Emergency Defence
We fund legal defence for journalists and independent media across the world.
Strategic Litigation
We take on strategic cases to promote and improve media freedom.
Capacity Building
We build local legal capacity to defend journalists through legal training and by funding local legal centres to defend journalists.
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See All NewsCall for Consultants: Modules on Online Violence Against Journalists
Purpose of the consultancy contract The purpose of the consultancy contract is to draft three modules looking at online violence against journalists, in particular women journalists. Background Media Defence’s vision is a world where journalists no longer face legal challenges that threaten their ability to report freely and independently on issues of public interest, allowing…
Convocatoria: Seminario de litigio en libertad de expresión para América Latina
28 a 30 de junio 2022, Antigua, Guatemala Media Defence abre convocatoria para la participación de abogados y abogadas que trabajen en América Latina en su seminario de litigio en libertad de expresión. El seminario tendrá lugar en Antigua, Guatemala, entre 28 y 30 de junio 2022. Las personas que participen en el seminario…
Call for Applications: South Asia Freedom of Expression Litigation Surgery
19 - 22 July 2022, Kathmandu, Nepal In partnership with the International Center for Non-Profit Law, we are calling for applications from lawyers based in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka to participate in a forthcoming litigation surgery on the right to freedom of expression. The litigation surgery will take place in Kathmandu,…
Call for Consultants: Training Materials on Freedom of Expression in South and South East Asia
We are looking for a consultant to develop a set of summary modules on freedom of expression in South and South East Asia for use in our litigation surgeries. One of our core activities is the delivery of litigation surgeries to increase the knowledge, skills and confidence of lawyers to litigate freedom of expression cases…
Moya Chacón vs Costa Rica: Defending public interest reporting in Latin America
Last month, we intervened in the case of Moya Chacón vs. Costa Rica. FLIP, El Veinte and Media Defence submitted a joint amicus brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (the Court). The Court will assess whether a civil penalty against two journalists violated their freedom of expression. The case Ronald Moya Chacón and…
Our Journalist Impact Survey 2021
“I would have been jailed for a year as I was unable to pay.” Journalist supported by Media Defence in 2021. In 2021, we carried out our fifth annual Journalist Impact Survey to look at the longer-term impact of our support on our primary beneficiaries: journalists. We designed our Journalist Impact Survey to understand the…