[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2015 Freedom of Expression Campaigning Award-winner is activist Amran Abdundi, who, through various channels,...
Campaigning 2015
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CATEGORY: Awards
#IndexAwards2015: Digital activism nominee Tamás Bodoky and Atlatszo.hu
Atlatszo.hu is an investigative news outlet founded and managed by Tamás Bodoky, the main goal of which is to promote free, transparent circulation of information in Hungary
Digital Activism 2015
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2015 Freedom of Expression Digital Activism Award-winner is journalist Tamás Bodoky, who founded the...
#IndexAwards2015: Campaigning nominee Rechts gegen Rechts
Rechts gegen Rechts is an initiative set up in 2014 in Wunsiedel, Germany, to peacefully counter an annual neo-Nazi march through the streets of the small town.
#IndexAwards2015: Campaigning nominee Soldiers’ Mothers
Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia is an NGO network dedicated to improving transparency and exposing human rights abuses in the Russian military
Journalism 2015
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]2015 Freedom of Expression Journalism Award-winner Rafael Marques de Morais has exposed government and industry...
#IndexAwards2015: Campaigning nominee Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar
Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar is an Afghan journalist and the executive director of the media advocacy group Nai Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan, which works to develop a free media as the country develops a peacetime society.
#IndexAwards2015: Campaigning nominee Amran Abdundi
Amran Abdundi is a women’s rights activist based in northeastern Kenya. She runs the Frontier Indigenous Network, an organisation which mobilises female peace builders and rights activists to set up shelters along the dangerous border with Somalia.
#IndexAwards2015: Campaigning nominees Yaman Akdeniz and Kerem Altiparmak
Professors Yaman Akdeniz and Kerem Altiparmak are cyber-law experts and internet rights activists who have campaigned vigorously against the Turkish government’s increasingly restrictive internet access laws
Journalism 2015
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]2015Â Freedom of Expression Arts Journalism-winner Safa Al Ahmad has spent the last three years covertly filming a...
#IndexAwards2015: Arts nominee Xavier “Bonil” Bonilla
Bonil is the pen name for Xavier Bonilla, an Ecuador-based editorial cartoonist who draws for several national newspapers, particularly El Universo.
#IndexAwards2015: Arts nominee Rory “Panti Bliss” O’Neill
Rory O’Neill is a Dublin-based stand-up comedian and self-described accidental activist for gay rights, who sees his duty as “to say the unsayable”.
The Freedom of Expression Awards and Fellowship is a key Index on Censorship programme designed to highlight and amplify the work of some of the world’s most courageous defenders of freedom of expression. Previous winners include Journalist Fergal Keane, novelist Ma Jian, lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, activist Malala Yousafzai, cartoonist Ali Ferzat, journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Fergal Keane, and Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Learn more.
