Contents – Modi’s India: The Age of Intolerance
Contents The central theme of the Spring 2023 issue of Index is India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After monitoring Modi’s rule since he was elected in 2014, Index decided to look deeper into...
View ArticleContents – Express yourself: Overcoming neurodiversity stereotypes
Contents Up Front Mind matters, by Jemimah Seinfeld: The term neurodiversity has positively challenged how we approach our minds. Has it done enough? The Index, by Mark Frary: The latest in free...
View ArticleContents – Express yourself: Overcoming neurodiversity stereotypes
Contents The Summer 2023 issue of Index looks at neurodiversity, the term coined in the late 1990s to identify and promote the positives of variation in human thinking which has become more widely...
View Article“They simply do not care about us”
Nigeria's elections have always been rooted in the socio-political marginalisation of women. Political positions have been largely given to men and the women who participate get bullied out. This was...
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Zimbabwe’s ‘crocodile’ crushes dissent ahead of Wednesday elections
Despite his pledge not to curtail people’s rights when he came to power in November 2017, the past five years under President Emmerson Mnangagwa has seen the rights landscape shattered in Zimbabwe. Now...
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Nominees for the 2023 Freedom of Expression Awards – Campaigning
Matiullah Wesa (Afghanistan) Through Pen Path, Matiullah Wesa has worked to ensure all children have access to education, teaching materials and books. After the Taliban’s takeover, this focus turned...
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Nominees for the 2023 Freedom of Expression Awards – Journalism
Bilan Media (Somalia) Bilan Media is Somalia’s first women-only media organisation and newsroom, which aims to challenge gendered threats against women in journalism, as well as covering...
View ArticleShortlists announced for the 2023 Freedom of Expression Awards
For the last 22 years Index on Censorship has been proud to host the annual Freedom of Expression Awards. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the brave artists, journalists and campaigners from around the...
View ArticleContents – In bad faith: How religion is being weaponised by the right
Contents The Autumn 2023 issue of Index looks at blasphemy laws, and how they are being weaponised by the religious right as a means of imposing intolerance. We wanted to understand the ways in which...
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The Magufuli hangover
When Tanzania’s President John Magufuli died in 2021, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, many hoped for an end to his six years of autocratic rule which saw the country’s civic space all but...
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Vote for your Moment of Freedom 2023
Moments of Freedom is Index on Censorship’s 2023 year-end campaign where we ask our readers and supporters to vote on the moments during the past twelve months that have given them hope that the world...
View ArticleUK’s hostile environment continues to silence already persecuted people
After the infamous “go home” vans, the Windrush scandal and a (failed) policy to push back people crossing the channel on boats, this week the UK government sharpened its latest tool in its hostile...
View ArticleContents – Having the last laugh: The comedians who won’t be silenced
Contents The Winter 2023 issue of Index looks at how comedians are being targeted by oppressive regimes around the world in order to crack down on dissent. In this issue, we attempt to uncover the...
View Article2024, the year that four billion go the polls
Happy New Year – I hope… Entering a new year typically encourages us to reflect on the past 12 months and consider the impact of what is likely to happen in the next 12. Depressingly, 2023 was yet...
View ArticleThe deadly challenges of reporting on Sudan’s “forgotten war”
Described by The Economist as “The Forgotten War”, the current conflict in Sudan may have escaped the notice of the average news consumer. Beyond headlines of rushed evacuations shortly after the...
View ArticleCalls to sanction architects of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act grow
A prominent Ugandan LGBTQ+ activist Steven Kabuye, who nearly lost his life when he was attacked by unknown men in January this year, believes politicians and other leaders fomenting hate in his...
View ArticleRemembering the women who pay the ultimate price for freedom
Today is International Women’s Day. It’s a day that inspires huge optimism in me. A day that reminds me of the extraordinary ability of women to lead, to challenge and to win – in spite of the odds,...
View ArticleWhen is a landslide not a landslide?
By international comparison, Putin’s ‘win’ in the recent elections in Russia was practically marginal. Forget the ruthless despots of yesteryear; Putin’s victory could put him in the running for the...
View ArticleWhen the old fox walks the tightrope
Despite a petition from a group of activists and legal experts, Uganda’s Constitutional Court recently made the decision to uphold the Anti-Homosexuality Act, one of the most oppressive anti-LGBTQ+...
View ArticleWhy we cannot afford to look away
The world seems to be breaking at the seams. Our news is filled with images of war and the horror and fear that accompany them. We cannot afford to turn a blind eye to the suffering and devastation...
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