Italy in January-September 2016 had the highest number of incidents of threats against journalists and media outfits in the EU, a study by the...

The EU has in recent years used trade agreements as a venue for promotion of human rights, notably freedom of speech.  Yet, as trade negotiators...

As France continues to push the envelope in terms of enforcing a worldwide “right to be forgotten,” free press advocates in the U.S. have stepped in...

Een opmerking van VVD-parlementariër Han ten Broeke over “het nut van publicatie” OneWorld is gesignaleerd door het internationale project Index on...

Press freedom in the UK is under threat as the Snoopers' Charter undergoes its third and final reading at the House of Lords today, 31 October. Read...

IT was the biggest stitch-up since Beau Brummell told the Prince Regent he needed some new togs; with a flick of a barrister’s pink highlighter, the...

Index on Censorship magazine reviewed by the Times Literary Supplement. Founded in 1972 by the British author and translator Michael Scammell, Index...

Social media has played an important role in recent social movements, from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter, but technology can potentially...

Index on Censorship magazine is discussed in Times Literary Supplement podcast. With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Elaine Showalter on how...

Cake decoration seems like an odd thing to divide a society, but it’s causing a major rift in Northern Ireland. On Tuesday the Belfast Court of...

A controversial organisation funded by the former Formula One boss who was exposed for taking part in an orgy was yesterday approved as Britain's...

Introducing the theme of the current issue of Index on Censorship (UK), Rachael Jolley writes that anonymity 'protects from danger, and it allows...