The £100,000 grant will be used to provide workshops for boards and senior management of arts organisations in England and Wales
Arts Council England awards Index funding to help address arts censorship
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Index’s youth board discusses media freedom in Europe with MMF correspondents
To highlight the most pressing concerns for press freedom in Europe in 2017, members Index’s outgoing youth board review the year gone by with Mapping Media Freedom correspondents
Azerbaijan: Journalists strive to cover the country from exile
For Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev and many other authoritarian leaders across the world, independent journalism and what it represents is bad news.
Global heroes battling censorship announced in Index Freedom of Expression Awards shortlist
Sixteen courageous individuals and organisations who fight for freedom of expression in every part of the world
Mapping Media Freedom: French journalists ejected from Le Pen appearance
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European Union and neighbouring countries.
Murad Subay: Yemen’s war makes a month feel like a year
The Index award winner talks about the war in Yemen, president Trump’s travel ban his involvement in a prize for aspiring artists from around the world
#ThisFlag: Evan Mawarire tells Zimbabweans to “never ever be silent”
Statement from Evan Mawarire who has been arrested in Zimbabwe
Mapping Media Freedom: Five incidents to watch
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European Union and neighbouring countries.
Turkey: Bans on Kurdish arts festivals spark solidarity actions
Arts organisation Siyah Bant examines how emergency rule has affected artistic expression in Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey
Learn from Turkey: Resistance can’t just end at “No”
Writer Ece Temelkuran warns global movements to learn from the example of her homeland.