All over the world, International Women Day is celebrated to recognise the achievements and rights of women. But unfortunately, in Pakistan, that recognition means nothing. The reason: on that same ...

Opinion polls currently show that the new opposition party Tisza, headed by Péter Magyar, has a steady lead ahead of general ...

She longed for a normal life and to return to Moscow after years spent reporting on the war in Chechnya. She did return to ...

In 2025, press freedom in Europe was under sustained pressure, driven by legal threats, attempts at media capture and transnational repression. This pressure was compounded by an increasingly hostile ...

Farah, 25, based in Parwan province, supported her family as a civil servant and for UN agencies before the Taliban took over. Then, like so many other women, she lost her job. She did not take that ...

We are looking for feature ideas about censorship from all over the world. We particularly like person-centred articles which give us a new insight about how freedom of expression is under threat. We ...

The message of one of our founders, Stephen Spender, was that Index wouldn’t be doing a good job if it didn’t keep an eye on attacks to free expression that happen on home soil. With this in mind and ...

Zoomers – young people born between 1997 and 2012 – took to the streets last summer. They didn’t have a common ideology but they were angry about the state of world and felt hopeless for the future.

This article first appeared in Volume 54, Issue 1 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled The forgotten patients: Lost voices in the global healthcare system. Read more about the issue ...

This piece first appeared in the Winter 2025 issue of Index on Censorship, Gen Z is revolting: Why the world’s youth will not be silenced, published on 18 December 2025. She leaves before dawn, when ...