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Human Rights Watch Film Festival (18-28 March)
The film festival brings to life human rights abuses through storytelling in a way that challenges each individual to empathise and demand justice for all people.
Don’t Spy On Us: The fight against mass surveillance
Index hosts a Google Hangout with Open Rights Group, Privacy International and Don't Spy On Us on protecting yourself from mass surveillance, and demanding the right to privacy from your government
London day of action for Al Jazeera staff on trial in Egypt
Show your support for threatened journalists
Belarus: Time For Media Reform (27 Feb, London)
Following launches in Minsk and Brussels, join Index on Censorship for the UK launch of our important new policy paper ‘Belarus: Time For Media Reform’. Belarus continues to have one of the most restrictive and hostile media environments in Europe. Recent years have brought no genuine improvements to the media
Belarus: Time for media reform (19 Feb, Brussels)
Join Index at a presentation of a new policy paper on media freedom in Belarus on 19 February, 2014, 15.00 at the Office for Democratic Belarus, Rue de la Loi 42, Brussels. The new policy paper Belarus: Time for media reform created by Index on Censorship in cooperation with the
Life After Leveson: Media Freedom in the UK (19 Feb)
Join Index on Censorship for a lively discussion of the past and future of Britain’s free press. 2014 is set to be a pivotal year for UK media. The new defamation law will see its first tests, and the press and campaigners are rushing to establish a new regulator.
Drawing the Line: #LoveandFEX (14 Feb)
Join us on Feb 14 for a Google Hangout kick off our Drawing the Line programme of monthly youth events. Since its Valentines Day we’ll be in the mood to talk about love and free expression. Love and -– more specifically -– same-sex love has been top of the international
Around Town: Don’t Spy on Us #TheDayWeFightBack (11 Feb)
Join English PEN and Open Rights Group on a day of global protest against mass surveillance, as civil liberties groups and activists around the world unite to defend privacy and freedom of expression online. With keynote speakers and tech experts to advise you on your privacy and security online. Since
Index on Censorship magazine
Latest issue: Mission creep -- defending religious tolerance and free speech
The winter issue of Index on Censorship magazine brings together articles from writers including the Bishop of Bradford, Salil Tripathi, Samira Ahmed and Kaya Genc. There’s an interview with Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti ahead of the opening of her new play, and 10 years after Bezhti; while cartoonist Martin Rowson writes and draws about how comedy and religious offence come into conflict.
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#indexawards2014
Nominees: Advocacy | Arts | Digital Activism | Journalism
Join us 20 March 2014 at the Barbican Centre for the Freedom of Expression Awards
Index on Censorship: Who we are
Index on Censorship is an international organisation that promotes and defends the right to freedom of expression.
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IFEX Network
- Hong Kong (China) - Chief Executive of Hong Kong: Take steps to protect freedom of expression and defend press freedoms 7 March
- Pakistan - Journalist Abrar Tanoli killed in Pakistan, had previously received threats 7 March
- Turkey - Turkish women's rights advocate Eren Keskin on her life's work and the problem of impunity 7 March
- Thailand - Imprisonment of journalists may spell doom for online news site in Thailand 7 March
- Ecuador - In Ecuador the battle for the truth continues 7 March