May 2025

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, presented his annual report in the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In this report, he raised concerns for the state of press freedom and the […]

See this statement on AEJ International. On 20 May the European Federation of Journalists/International Federation of Journalists, the Association of European Journalists, Committee to Protect Journalists, and International Press Institute jointly published a Media Freedom Alert on Hungary on the Council of

By Aagje Van Raemdonck and Jan Rehaag In a panel discussion on May 5, female journalists from across the world came together in the Embassy of Canada to Belgium to discuss the abuse, discrimination, and violence faced by female journalists.

By Jan Rehaag At a press conference in April, Amnesty International unveiled its annual State of the World’s Human Rights report, which analyses the human rights situation across 150 countries. The NGO warns that human rights are under threat from

By Julian Hale Ahead of the German elections in February, we saw a stuttering Ampelkoalition [traffic light coalition, i.e. Greens, FDP (yellow) Social Democrats (red)] stuck mainly at red. The ‘Scholzomat’, i.e. the Scholz robot as he has been nicknamed,

Just days after World Press Freedom Day, AEJ Belgium reaffirms its commitment to defending independent journalism at a time when its role is more vital — and probably more under threat — than ever. We are concerned about the situation

AEJ Belgium is honoured to invite you to its spring event, AI & Media: Risk or (R)evolution, which will take place on 21 May at 18:30 at the Press Club Brussels (Rue Froissart 95, 1040 Brussels). We look forward to an insightful