A ban on female healthcare workers is leaving women’s health and maternity services in a dire situation under Taliban rule ...

Hungary’s recent actions not only contravene the ECHR, but also the European Union’s (EU) policies around democracy and human ...

Recent violence in the coastal regions has seen the Alawites targeted. What does the new leadership mean for coexistence of ...

A new Reuters Institute report on the British media landscape found that nearly half of those surveyed think the truth is ...

Zahra Joya is an Afghan journalist living in London and editor-in-chief and founder of Rukhshana Media, a news agency ...

This article first appeared in Volume 54, Issue 1 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled The forgotten patients: Lost voices in the global healthcare system, published on 11 April 2025.

A ban on female healthcare workers is leaving women’s health and maternity services in a dire situation under Taliban rule Dar Fergiani is a family firm and what Fergiani calls his legacy. His father, ...

This article first appeared in volume 53, issue 1 of Index on Censorship, The long reach: How authoritarian countries are silencing critics abroad, which was published in April 2024. Zhou Fengsuo, ...

In a recent article in Byline Times, Neal Lawson the executive director of Compass, a “good society” cross-party campaign group, asked why the UK government couldn’t just ban lying in politics. This ...

The Spring 2024 issue of Index looks at how authoritarian states are reaching across borders in their attempts to silence dissidents. Nowhere is safe for those speaking out against oppressive regimes ...