[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” css_animation=”fadeIn” css=”.vc_custom_1485788709813{padding-top: 250px !important;padding-bottom: 250px !important;background-image: url(https://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2013-logo-1460×490.png?id=80253) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1472525914065{margin-top: -150px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column_inner el_class=”awards-inside-desc” width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARDS 2013″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Awards exist to celebrate individuals or groups who have had a significant impact fighting censorship anywhere in the world.
- Awards were offered in four categories: Arts, Campaigning, Digital Activism and Journalism
- Winners were honoured at a gala celebration in London at the Inner Temple
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUWv8_bOXgg”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1472608310682{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WINNERS” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1477036676595{margin-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Malala Yousafzai” title=”Advocacy Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”60802″]Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani education campaigner, who received global attention for her courage in standing up to the Taliban and her defense of girls’ education. Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, accepted the award on his daughter’s behalf saying: “I want to give a message to the world. I didn’t do anything special. As a father, I did one thing, I gave her the right of freedom of expression. All fathers and mothers, give your daughters and sons freedom of expression. Freedom of expression is a most important right. The solution of any conflict is to say the right thing, to speak the truth.”[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Kostas Vaxevanis” title=”Journalism Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”80366″]Kostas Vaxevanis, Greek investigative journalist, who published a list of more than 2,000 suspected tax evaders, drawing international condemnation. Accepting the award, Kostas said: “Journalism has been either invested with magic powers, or has been blamed for everything. Both positions are wrong. Journalism is the way, lonely most of the times, of truth.”[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Bassel Khartabil” title=”Digital Activism Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”71068″]Bassel Khartabil, Syrian internet activist believed to have been arrested for his work as a computer engineer, specializing in the development of open source software. Accepting the award on his behalf, his friend Dana Trometer said: “Bassel is aware of this award and he would like to thank the judges and audience for trusting him with such an honour. He would also like to pay respect to all the victims of the struggle for freedom of speech, and, especially for those non-violent youths who refused to carry arms and deserve all the credit for this award.”[/staff][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=” Zanele Muholi” title=”Arts Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”81033″]Zanele Muholi, South-African photographer and LGBT activist whose work focuses on gender and sexual identity in post-Apartheid South Africa. Dedicating the award to two friends who were victims of hate crimes and later succumbed to HIV complications, Muholi said: ‘To all the activists, gender activists, visual activists, queer artists; writers, poets, performers, art activists, organic intellectuals who use all art forms of expressions in South Africa. The war is not over till we reach an end to ‘curative rapes’ and brutal killing of black lesbians, gays and transpersons in South Africa.’[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”JUDGING” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner el_class=”mw700″][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]
Criteria – Anyone involved in tackling free expression threats – either through journalism, campaigning, the arts or using digital techniques – is eligible for nomination.
Any individual, group or NGO can nominate or self-nominate. There is no cost to apply.
Judges look for courage, creativity and resilience. We shortlist on the basis of those who are deemed to be making the greatest impact in tackling censorship in their chosen area, with a particular focus on topics that are little covered or tackled by others.
Nominees must have had a recognisable impact in the past 12 months.
Where a judge comes from a nominee’s country, or where there is any other potential conflict of interest, the judge will abstain from voting in that category.
Panel – Each year Index recruits an independent panel of judges – leading world voices with diverse expertise across campaigning, journalism, the arts and human rights.
The judges for 2013 were:
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Maya Wolfe-Robinson” title=”Commissioning editor, The Guardian” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”80226″]Maya Wolfe-Robinson is a Guardian commissioning editor for video and opinion.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Sandy Nairne” title=”Director, National Portrait Gallery” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”80227″]Alexander Robert “Sandy” Nairne CBE FSA is an English historian and curator. From 2002 until February 2015 he was the director of the National Portrait Gallery.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Ziyad Marar” title=”Global publishing director, Sage Publications” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”80225″]Ziyad Marar is an author and editorial director in the UK. He was born in 1966 in Iraq, and moved to London aged 10. He has published three books and as of 2013 was Deputy Managing Director and Executive Vice President / Global Publishing at SAGE Publications.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Felix Tréguer” title=”Co-founding member, La Quadrature du Net” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”80224″]Felix Tréguer is a researcher, a French activist and a co-founding member of La Quadrature du Net.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1473325552363{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1473325567468{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][awards_gallery_slider name=”GALLERY” images_url=”80386,80384,80383,80382,80381,80385,80380,80379,80378,80377,80376,80374,80373,80372,80370,80369,80371,80368,80367,80366,80365,80364,80363,80362,80361,80360,80359,80358,80357,80356,80355,80354,80353,80352,80351,80350,80349,80348″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
