27 years have passed since the murder of Renata Fonte, city councillor of Culture and Education policies in a town in the south of Italy. Her commitment still inspires today Italian civil society.

A total of 141 journalists and media workers were killed during the decade of the 2000s in attacks and reprisals blamed on criminal groups. Mafias and cartels today pose the biggest threat to media freedom worldwide.

A project dedicated to contrast the cybercrime phenomenon

A group of middle-class Mexican women on pink motorcycles is handing out food and medicine to the poor in one of the world's deadliest cities to both protest and allay the widespread deprivation it says is fueling the violence.

Dramatic developments took place in Belarus on December 19, 2010 when Presidential Elections and electoral process have been accompanied by several violations of human rights and limitations of fundamental freedoms.

A well educated and succesful professor, aware of the level of his homeland's democracy, who decided at a certain point of his life that being an international reputed figure from China does involve a certain degree of responsibility.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to stop the construction of the highway from Moscow to Saint Petersburg through the Khimki forest.

Reporters Without Borders today launched the world’s first “Anti-Censorship Shelter” in Paris for use by foreign journalists, bloggers and dissidents who are refugees or just passing through as a place where they can learn how to circumvent Internet censorship

Cinisi will host the centre dedicated to Peppino Impastato. The brother has visited the house for the first time: reopen the investigations, he demands. But there is a warning: the hands of the godfathers on goods seized to the mafia

After being excluded from a religious demonstration, members of an ‘Ndrangheta clan shot gunfire at the house of the local prior in charge of the ritual to intimidate him. The demonstration was subsequently canceled