Providing support for independent news production in Syria, founding a newsplatform for independent Russian language countries and being selected by the Dutch government as a strategic partner. Read about these milestones in our Annual Report 2015.

In Zimbabwe, mainstream media hardly report on local issues. Mobile Community Zimbabwe aims to change this. By training citizens on how to use mobile phones and to teach them how to report these stories.

Following the revolution in Syria in 2011, several new Syrian media were founded on the grounds of producing professional and independent journalism. Enab Baladi is one of those independent outlets. 

After 537 days in prison, the Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova was released on probation on the 25th of May.

The need for reliable and diverse news-outlets serving Russian-speaking communities was the leading theme of the conference “The Future of Independent Russian-language Media” on 29 April. 

Today the fellowship program “Youth Women in Community Media and Journalism” received the UN World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Prize 2016 for Media.