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 ...
Banning social media for the under-16s appears to be contagious. Australia set the trend in December and now other countries are considering doing the same. There is growing momentum in Britain in ...
When I left Hungary on Sunday, the US secretary of state Marco Rubio had just arrived in Budapest for talks with the prime minister Viktor Orbán to give him the USA’s full-throttled support. Hungary ...
On 23 February, Index coordinated a letter signed by nine media freedom, free expression and journalist organisations to the UK Government, after the BBC Director-General publicly stated that the ...
This article 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. For Ukraine’s Gen Z, the war ...