Sex and pregnancy continue to be taboo subjects around the world as a special report in Index on Censorship magazine shows
Five myths about contraception and pregnancy laid bare
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Student reading list: Art and protest
Art has been used as a form of protest during times of crisis throughout history. It is a popular and, at times, effective platform to express opinions about societal problems
Project Exile: Russian journalist flees after car fire, faeces attack
A decade ago, Russian journalist Yulia Latynina thought dissidents who compared President Vladimir Putin’s rule to the Soviet times were ridiculous.
Doing their masters’ bidding: Media smear campaigns in central and eastern Europe
Unpatriotic behaviour. Sedition. Being in the pay of shadowy external forces. Faking a neo-Nazi event. These are just a few of the charges that have recently been levelled against independent journalists by pro-government media outlets in several central and eastern European countries.
Habari RDC: The only thing certain about the upcoming Congolese election is uncertainty
The Democratic Republic of Congo will go to the polls on 23 December to elect a successor to incumbent president Joseph Kabila, who has been in power since January 2001 when he inherited the position from his assassinated father
Wendy Funes: Fear is a weapon used against the vulnerable in Honduras
Funes worries violence has become “normalised” in Honduras and that the shooting and wounding of journalist Geovanny Sierra is just the latest example
Why we find it impossible to talk about birth, death and marriage
Birth, marriage and death–these are key staging posts. And that’s one reason why this issue looks at how taboos around these subjects have a critical impact on our world.
Spain: “Purge” at state-owned RTVE following political pressure
The reform of Spanish public television and radio RTVE exposes how political interests dominate the corporation
In Turkey, dismissed academics nurture knowledge off campus
Professors in Mersin and Eskişehir have responded to their dismissals by creating their own spaces for sharing knowledge: Kültürhane and Eskişehir School
Podcast: Talking birth, marriage and death taboos
With author Jieun Baek, Sharon Thompson, senior lecturer at Cardiff Law School, Times columnist Edward Lucas and journalist Irene Caselli