Debates on freedom of expression through interviews, reportage and banned literature.
Greater Manchester school library censorship: who is accountable?
27 March 2026 @ 5:05 pm
Now that Lowry Academy has been publicly named, Index has written a follow-up to last week's book banning story
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Throwing free expression to the wolves is not the way to protect kids
27 March 2026 @ 2:59 pm
Beware regimes which use “child protection” as a way to censor
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The exclusion of Palestinian voices means the same mistakes are being made on Gaza
25 March 2026 @ 1:15 pm
In 1993, the Oslo Accords promised peace in the Middle East. Thirty-two years on, a new peace initiative seeks to extract the same out of the wreckage of Gaza
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Kosovo: Council of Europe platform partners conduct fact-finding mission on media freedom
23 March 2026 @ 4:34 pm
A delegation will meet Prime Minister Albin Kurti as well as editors and journalists, the parliamentary media committee, judicial authorities and regulatory bodies
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Serbia: Media freedom mission to probe longstanding challenges and advocate for reform
23 March 2026 @ 10:34 am
On 26-27 March 2026, partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) and of the Council of Europe Platform for the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists will conduct a mission to Serbia
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books
20 March 2026 @ 11:33 am
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
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We need the world service more than ever
20 March 2026 @ 11:17 am
A tight funding deadline highlighted just how vital it is as a source of news and information
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Truth dies when you fire the fact-checkers
18 March 2026 @ 11:33 am
Experts who can spot the red flags and contextualise the information we receive aren’t free-speech enemies
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Defending the right to protest means defending it for everyone
13 March 2026 @ 5:14 pm
We may find the al-Quds Day march this Sunday distasteful, but banning it risks opening the floodgates to more frequent deployment of “safety” concerns to silence dissent
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Russia: Googling anything against the authorities is a crime
12 March 2026 @ 2:32 pm
How Vladimir Putin is reshaping social behaviour through controlling how people communicate online
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