IFEX is a leading global network of organisations defending and promoting the right to freedom of expression and information. Founded in 1992 in Montréal, Canada, when a dozen organisations came together to create a coordinated mechanism to rapidly expose free expression violations around the world, IFEX advocates for the free expression rights of all, including media workers, citizen journalists, activists, artists, scholars. Members bring their individual strengths to free expression issues and collaborate in the common goal of defending and promoting free expression.
