Media freedom monitoring and safety of journalists
This includes tracking incidents of harassment, attacks and assault as well as arbitrary detention and sentencing that restrict the work of individual media professionals and threatens journalists’ safety. We also track actions that violate people’s right to freedom of expression, including the right to online expression.
We post individual reports on media freedom violations to our website. We also publish the annual So This is Democracy report which collates these incidents.
Media freedom monitoring helps us provide relevant support to journalists, media practitioners and institutions whose rights are violated. The research aspect also enables MISA Malawi to develop a greater understanding of media violations and allows the organisation to identify and track emerging issues and trends.
Media violations
Malawi government’s disregard of right to assemble, free expression, press freedom a concern
As the world celebrates the 2024 Human Rights Day, MISA Malawi is concerned with government's failure to protect fundamental rights of assembly, expression and the media. 'Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now' is the theme for the 2024 celebrations and casts the...
Content Production and Practices in the Digital Age: Threats, Risks, and Opportunities
Virtual Presentation by MISA Regional Director Dr Tabani Moyo at the Media, Human Rights, Citizenship and Development Forum 02 December 2024, Maputo, Mozambique. Chairperson, esteemed members of the diplomatic community, MISA Mozambique Governing Council, the media...
MISA Communiqué on the All Africa Judges and Jurists Summit
The All Africa Judges and Jurists Summit convened in Nairobi, Kenya, from 17 - 18 September 2024, ended with a call to affirm judicial independence and address challenges to judicial independence and the rule of law in Africa. The Summit expressed deep concern over...
MISA engages ACHPR on indiscriminate attacks on Mozambican journalists
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has engaged the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa Commissioner Ourveena Geereesha Topsy-Sonoo on the indiscriminate...
Reflections on the Spaces of Solidarity (SoS) Conference Agenda
Esteemed Colleagues As we open this Second Day’s Session of our Summit, which will straddle the end of the 3rd year of the Spaces of Solidarity as a Forum, I am privileged to say that as a people, we have every reason to be proud of our historic efforts towards...