Catarina Demony, Author at Index on Censorship

Catarina Demony

Catarina is the founder of The Voiceless, a media platform about human rights violations, and recently graduated from Kingston University with a Journalism degree. Currently, she works in the communications team at London School of Economics Students’ Union, as well as University of the Arts. Catarina also works closely with Amnesty LDN, part of Amnesty International movement for recent graduates and young professionals.

#IndexDrawtheLine: Does extremism have a place on campus?

by Catarina Demony | 30 Mar 2015

After strong lobbying from senior Tory peers, two private members’ debating student societies from Oxford and Cambridge universities were exempted from the controversial counter-terror ban on extremist speakers. Even though the two societies are...

#IndexDrawtheLine: Religious extremism is one of the greatest challenges facing society

by Catarina Demony | 12 Jan 2015

“We want to laugh at the extremists – every extremist. They can be Muslim, Jewish, Catholic. Everyone can be religious but extremist thoughts and acts we cannot accept,” Laurent Léger, a journalist at Charlie Hebdo--a satirical magazine where an...