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UK journalists face growing personal threats and say media freedom is at risk
A new Reuters Institute report on the British media landscape found that nearly half of those surveyed think the truth is shaped by people in power
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The threat minorities face in Syria
Recent violence in the coastal regions of the country has seen the Alawite community targeted. What does the new leadership mean for coexistence of...
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The EU is losing patience with Hungary
Will the bloc stand up to Viktor Orbán’s oppressive anti-LGBTQ+ laws?
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The week in free expression: 24–30 May 2025
Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days
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Afghanistan’s silent healthcare crisis
A ban on female healthcare workers is leaving women’s health and maternity services in a dire situation under Taliban rule
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Spotlight: Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary
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Tiananmen’s Zhou Fengsuo and the Hong Kong democracy movement’s Nathan Law: Always looking behind
Index spoke to two prominent Chinese dissidents about their experiences of moving abroad to protect themselves from persecution
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Tiananmen Square? Don’t mention it
Efforts by Beijing to wipe out any memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre continued to expand the past week. But ways to remember expanded too
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China’s fifth most wanted democracy advocate looks back at Tiananmen
Zhou Fengsuo was a student at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests. He tells Jemimah Steinfeld how peaceful times turned to horror
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Tiananmen Square: The hunger strike declaration
Extracts from the text of a declaration issued by four student leaders in Tiananmen Square just before the massacre on the night of 3/4 June 1989
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MAGAZINE
LATEST ISSUE: VOLUME 54.01 SPRING 2025
The forgotten patients: Lost voices in the global healthcare system
Modern medicine is a wonderful thing. Before Edward Jenner’s development of the smallpox vaccination in 1796, infectious diseases and viruses killed millions. The introduction of anaesthetic gases during surgical procedures in 1846 eliminated the excruciating pain of surgery. And before Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin in 1928, people died unnecessarily from cuts and grazes.
But the benefits of modern medicine are not felt equally around the world. In this issue, we explore the forgotten patients in global healthcare settings – the marginalised groups who fall through the cracks or are actively shut out of healthcare provision, then ignored or silenced when they raise concerns.
Just like free speech, healthcare is an indisputable human right. But for many around the globe, both these rights are being removed in conjunction with each other. Through telling their stories, this edition aims to shine a light on these injustices and – we hope – empower more people to speak up for the right to health for themselves and others.
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