Index joins other organisations in expressing concern over extradition proceedings against Wikileaks founder
Letter to US Attorney General on Julian Assange
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CATEGORY: Americas
Contents – Climate of fear: The silencing of the planet’s indigenous peoples
The Autumn issue of Index magazine focuses on the struggle for environmental justice by indigenous campaigners. Anticipating the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, in November, we've chosen to give voice to people who are...
Why journalists need emergency safe havens
Journalists tell Index how a new type of visa is vital to protect lives and stop media censorship. Rachael Jolley reports
Speaking for my silenced sister Reality Winner
Winner, a US Air Force veteran, has just been released after being imprisoned for exposing secret papers about Russian interference in the US elections
“We know more about what is happening to protestors in Myanmar than in Cuba”
The view of the island as a socialist idyll is far from the truth
Daniel Ellsberg: The original whistleblower
The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the extent of US involvement in Vietnam during five presidencies , speaks to Index
Right for US students to speak freely off campus upheld
Mahanoy Area High School student Brandi Levy wins Supreme Court case after a profanity-laced post on Snapchat at a local convenience store
The world must look beyond Cuba’s carefully manufactured PR image
It is important that Western human rights organisations do not allow the distorted image of Cuba as a tropical socialist outpost to muddy their thinking
Index on Censorship announces shortlist for 2021 Freedom of Expression Awards
Imprisoned Egyptian human rights campaigner, Russian feminist performance artist, and persecuted Djiboutian journalists among the shortlisted candidates
Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg speaks 50 years on
It is five decades since a government whistleblower leaked a 7,000-page report into US involvement in Vietnam