The Winter issue of Index magazine highlights the battles fought by theatre of resistance across the world and how they've been enduring different forms of censorship. Writer Jonathan Maitland dives deeply into the history of theatre censorship in...
Three poems on the lives of women in Afghanistan
The Autumn issue of Index magazine focuses on the struggle for environmental justice by indigenous campaigners. Anticipating the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, in November, we've chosen to give voice to people who are...
More than 80 luminaries from the world of film and theatre have written an open letter to The Times
Index’s CEO looks ahead to this weekend’s Freedom of Expression Awards
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="117302" img_size="full" add_caption="yes"][vc_column_text]Yesterday I met with my local Afghani community. I left in tears. Their stories of heartbreak, of worry for their friends and families and their...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] For five days after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban insurgency, Mariam (not her real name) didn’t leave her house. As a professional athlete, this was very unusual. However, 23-year-old Mariam is also one of the...
The news from countries around the globe is appalling but we need to bear witness
As Western forces leave the country, the free press faces a uncertain future under the Taliban
Young protestors and reporters have given their lives in the past week in Myanmar and Afghanistan