Maha Ghazal is a Syrian journalist, feminist and civil rights activist. She was previously the managing editor of the website ...

An exiled journalist imprisoned for criticising the former Syrian president talks about his plans to return home and resume ...

Awards Fellowship honours journalists, campaigners and artists fighting censorship globally Public nominations are open until 31 October 2020 #IndexAwards2021 [/vc ...

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”117512″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] Marking Banned Books Week 2021, Index on Censorship and ...

Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015, the best-selling Turkish novelist wrote for Index about how writers are staying ...

Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015, the best-selling Turkish novelist wrote for Index about how writers are staying ...

Last month, Body in Progress, an autobiographical play written and performed by Belarusian poet Hanna Komar, debuted in London at Theatre Deli. Set against the backdrop of the fraudulent 2020 Belarus ...

Protests have the power to rally people, express objection to political decisions, and in the most successful cases, elicit change. They are a fundamental form of self expression, and a crucial ...

In the name of “free speech”, Donald Trump has laid out an authoritarian plan for his new administration to radically defund and gag universities. Now with a Republican Congress, he might just achieve ...

In the last week of November, Pakistan went into what was essentially an internet blackout. Social media apps like WhatsApp were inaccessible after the authorities blocked internet and mobile phone ...

Human Rights Day was formed on the anniversary of the founding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a landmark document created at the UN General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948. The ...