Happy New Year! I think we can all agree, regardless of where we live, that 2022 was a tumultuous year. There was seemingly a new crisis every day. Totalitarian regimes moving against their populations became increasingly normal, from Iran to...
A new exhibition in London takes a different viewpoint on the horrors of the Holocaust
Our CEO Ruth Anderson reflects on the events of the past 12 months, yet another year of challenges to human rights around the world
Australian authorities are dramatically ramping up the sentences faced by peaceful climate crisis protesters
There are those within the Index family, including some of our founders, who consider free speech to be an absolute right, says Ruth Anderson
Protesters in China unhappy with Xi Jinping’s government and its policies are getting creative with their messages
Choose from our shortlist of 12 despots and vote on who you think has done most to crack down on freedom of expression this year
Xi Jinping has excelled with his tyrant credentials this year. Earlier this year, a controversial United Nations‘ report said that “serious human rights violations” have been committed in Xinjiang while Xi’s government is behind moves to repress...
“As a child Aung San Suu Kyi was a celebrated heroine in my family home and Myanmar, an authoritarian regime determined to squash democracy. For a few years there was hope, although not for the Rohinghya community (thanks to Min Aung Hlaing),...
“As far as freedoms go, there is no landscape so bleak as North Korea,” says Index assistant editor Katie Dancey-Downs. “Under Kim Jong-un’s totalitarian regime, citizens are fed propaganda in lieu of actual food. And as for elections? The ballot...