International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)

The IFJ, the world's largest organisation of journalists, represents 600,000 media professionals from 187 trade unions and associations in more than 140 countries. Established in 1926, it is the organisation that speaks for journalists within the United Nations system and within the international trade union movement.

The IFJ promotes collective action to support journalists' unions in their fight for fair pay, decent working conditions, and in defence of their labour rights. It also promotes international action to defend press freedom and social justice through strong, free, and independent trade unions of journalists. The organisation opposes discrimination of all kinds and condemns the use of media as propaganda or to promote intolerance and conflict.

The IFJ believes in freedom of political and cultural expression and promotes collective action to defend human rights, democracy, and media pluralism. It supports journalists and their unions whenever they are fighting for their industrial and professional rights and has established an International Safety Fund to provide humanitarian aid for journalists in need. Decision-making is carried out democratically at a Congress that meets every three years.

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