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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Serbian authorities must stop the spiral of violence against journalists
Media freedom in Serbia remains trapped in a downward spiral amidst record levels of physical violence against journalists, death threats and online smear campaigns, alarming levels of impunity, and tight political control over the media landscape, a coalition of media freedom organisations concluded
Smearing, harassing, criminalising and killing is no longer the exception for journalists
Read below former Index CEO and now the chief executive of the Committee to Project Journalists Jodie Ginsberg’s powerful James Cameron Memorial Lecture delivered before the targeted killing this week by Israeli forces of a three-strong Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese television crew
Greater Manchester school library censorship: who is accountable?
Now that Lowry Academy has been publicly named, Index has written a follow-up to last week’s book banning story
Throwing free expression to the wolves is not the way to protect kids
Beware regimes which use “child protection” as a way to censor
Kosovo: Council of Europe platform partners conduct fact-finding mission on media freedom
A delegation will meet Prime Minister Albin Kurti as well as editors and journalists, the parliamentary media committee, judicial authorities and regulatory bodies
Serbia: Media freedom mission to probe longstanding challenges and advocate for reform
On 26-27 March 2026, partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) and of the Council of Europe Platform for the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists will conduct a mission to Serbia
School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
We need the world service more than ever
A tight funding deadline highlighted just how vital it is as a source of news and information
Defending the right to protest means defending it for everyone
We may find the al-Quds Day march this Sunday distasteful, but banning it risks opening the floodgates to more frequent deployment of “safety” concerns to silence dissent