PROMOTING FREE EXPRESSION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
We are pleased to announce that the Thinking Beyond March 2019 edition is now out under the theme: Dialogue: Panacea to the Zimbabwean Crisis?
Thinking Beyond: March 2019 edition is available for download in the MISA Zimbabwe Resource Centre.
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The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) was founded in 1992. Its work focuses on promoting, and advocating for, the unhindered enjoyment of freedom of expression, access to information and a free, independent, diverse and pluralistic media.
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has established a Regional Media Lawyers Network (RMLN), which will go a long way towards ensuring a much more organised and coordinated legal defence mechanism for press freedom in Southern Africa. The RMLN and its...
Despite some improvements in media freedom across Southern Africa, most countries in the region continue to be classified as problematic and difficult, according to the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index report. South Africa and Namibia remain...
MISA has officially launched the sixth edition of the Southern Africa Press Freedom Report 2026, a comprehensive assessment of 11 countries that reveals a critical inflection point for the region's media landscape. While constitutional guarantees of press freedom...
MISA Regional welcomes the adoption of Resolution ACHPR/Res.657(LXXXVI) 2026 on Access to Information and the Right to a Healthy Environment by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). The ACHPR adopted the Resolution during its 86th Ordinary...
