Education, the beginning of some many roads. But if we start closing some of those avenues down, arguing that they are too dangerous or challenging, do we begin to travel in a terrifying direction?
CATEGORY: Events
29 June: Legal protections for journalists worldwide? (Partner event)
Six months after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, journalists face more threats than ever before, from harassment to imprisonment to murder -...
16 June: Can liberty survive in the information age? (partner event)
King’s College hosts Alan Turing debate to mark 500th anniversary of King’s Chapel
8 July: A 21st century Magna Carta (partner event)
Justice, Money, Power debate at the City of London Festival
12 June: #RealBaku2015: Free political prisoners in Azerbaijan
On the day of the Baku European Games opening ceremony, join Index on Censorship, Sport for Rights, Amnesty International UK, Article 19 and Platform for a demonstration calling for an end to the human rights crackdown in Azerbaijan
15-16 June: Conference on journalists’ safety, media freedom and pluralism in times of conflict
Index will be at the conference, which will cover best practices for war reporting, journalism ethics and the information war, among other issues
13 July: 800 years after the Magna Carta, do we have a free press?
Join the Society of Editors, London Press Club, Media Society, Women in Journalism and YouGov for the debate
July 2: Fighting Machetes with Pens – The Voltaire Lecture 2015 (partner event)
On 26 February this year, Bonya Ahmed and her husband Avijit Roy, both humanist bloggers, were visiting the national book fair of Bangladesh. Just...
17 June: Day of action for Raif Badawi
Activist and blogger Raif Badawi was first arrested on 17 June 2012. Three years later he remains in prison on charges that are widely believed to...
5 June: Rosewater film screening + Q&A with Maziar Bahari
This film screening, at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, will be followed by a discussion exploring the threats to, and limits of, our right to freedom of expression