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
MISA engages SADC CSOs and stakeholders in the operationalisation of regional Non-State Actors’ mechanism
MISA participated in the SADC Non-State Actors Forum Engagement Meeting held on 11 and 12 August, 2024 in Harare. The meeting sought to operationalise the SADC Non-State Actors Engagement Mechanism. The meeting brought together the SADC Secretariat, the Southern...
Malawi Law Society pledges to support MISA Malawi in defending media freedom
MISA Malawi and Malawi Law Society (MLS) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will see the two organisations cooperating in the protection and promotion of media freedom, freedom of expression and access to information in Malawi. MISA Malawi...
Open Letter to the AU Heads of State and Government on the Endorsed Continental AI Strategy and African Digital Compact
Date: 22 July 2024 Your Excellencies, 1. This open letter is produced in response to the statement made on 17 June 2024 by the African Union Commission announcing the endorsement of the Continental Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy and African Digital Compact by...
MISA Regional 2023 Annual Report (Now Available!!!)
Expression in the Age of Fragmentation The world is more fragmented today than ever. Strife is more pronounced at a global scale, with conflicts degenerating to armed conflict. The number of people living in fragile states is perpetually on the increase, while more...
Botswana President calls for solutions to issues affecting the media in Southern Africa
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi says there is need to reflect and find solutions to the challenges of viability and disinformation affecting the media in the region. President Masisi was speaking at the World Press Freedom Day commemorations which MISA, with...