Twenty-nine governments from around the globe convened at the 2025 Paris Peace Forum, including five Heads of State and Government, have committed to hold the line to protect access to trustworthy, reliable information worldwide.
At the High-Level Conference on Information Integrity and Independent Media, a ministerial conference co-organized by the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) and the Forum on Information and Democracy (FID), government representatives from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe warned that independent and reliable information requires sustained public support across the globe to withstand rapid technological and commercial disruption.
Read the Forum on Information & Democracy’s summary and analysis here. The full declaration can also be found on the Elysée Palace website.