It should come as no surprise that, when opening an exhibition exploring queer identity, there will be critics.
Exploring queer identity in Brazil
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CATEGORY: Campaigns
Online harms and media freedom: UK response to Council of Europe lacks concrete details
“The UK’s response to our Council of Europe alert lacks concrete details about how government proposals dealing with online harms will not damage media freedom and the public’s right to information,” said Joy Hyvarinen, head of advocacy, Index on Censorship.
Index on Censorship calls on French authorities to reverse decision on visa for artist
We ask French authorities to reverse this decision and allow Murad, an Index fellow, to study
Move to protect free speech on US campuses raises concerns
When conservative Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson was invited to deliver the distinguished Roy H Park Lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s journalism school, outrage erupted over the choice.
Stifling free speech online in the war on fake news
Politicians around the world are trying to stamp out fake news online but at what cost to freedom of expression?
Index urges UK government to rethink proposals for online harms regulation over risks to media freedom
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Index on Censorship has filed an official alert with the Council of Europe about risks to media freedom in proposals in the government’s recently released online harms white paper. The white paper has raised...
Ireland: Students at Trinity College vote against proposition to defund University Times
The controversy followed reporting of alleged hazing at an all-male and secretive sporting club, the Knights of the Campanile
No sex please, we’re British: Why is no one talking about the UK’s impending “porn ban”?
The Digital Economy Act 2017 has the potential to pose a severe threat to the anonymity of people in the UK.
Syria’s universities: Tragedy and disaster
Dr. Kassem Alsayed Mahmoud speaks to Emily Seymour about Syrian academic freedom
Ireland: Trinity College newspaper faces closure over investigation into all-male student society
The initiation ceremony, or “hazing”, was seemingly meted out to those invited to become members of the Knights of the Campanile, an invitation-only sporting society, based on similar bodies at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship