The Home Secretary has rejected calls for "buffer zones" to be introduced around abortion clinics nationwide. Sajid Javid made his decision based on the fact that there is already a wide range of powers available to local authorities and the police...
Evolution is being dropped from school biology texts in Turkey. In Hungary, academic freedoms are increasingly threatened. Time to worry, says Rachael Jolley. Read the full article.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Parliament needs to stop creating piecemeal laws to address content online - or which make new forms of speech illegal. Index is very concerned about the plethora of law-making initiatives related to online...
Index on Censorship is sending political party UKIP a bundle of books, including The Handmaid's Tale and a copy of the Quran, in the hope it will forward them on to those of its members involved in Saturday's attack on Bookmarks bookshop. Read the...
Index on Censorship believes that the UK’s Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill should go back to the drawing board.
NGOs around the world call on their governments to publicly engage with Saudi Arabia to call for the release of detained writers and activists, and to issue strong recommendations to end restrictions on the right to freedom of expression.
Join Index on Censorship, American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and SAGE Publishing for a conversation with authors about writing, activism and speaking out
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="102490" img_size="full"][vc_column_text]Join BBC Radio 4’s FutureProofing series presenter Timandra Harkness and special guests Graham Lawton (New Scientist) and Keith Kahn-Harris (author of Denial: The...
Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Ali Smith are just two among a group of leading writers piling pressure on the Bahraini king to intervene in the case of a detained political leader who was stripped of the right to read in jail. Read the full article
The Law Commission will review how sex and gender characteristics are treated within existing hate crime laws and whether new offences are needed.
Leading writers including Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Claire Tomalin have signed an open letter to the king of Bahrain urging him to intervene in the case of a political prisoner being denied the right to read in jail.
Index on Censorship joins a coalition of some of the world’s leading human rights and digital rights organisations to call for full repeal of Egypt’s “cybercrime” law