After being shut out online, sex workers saw Twitter Blue as a tool for more visibility. However, it’s had the opposite effect
Twitter ‘Blue’: Sex workers, censorship and the fight for online visibility
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CATEGORY: Americas
A lot of hot air: Johnson, Braverman and climate protests
Distate of tactics used by groups such as Just Stop Oil should not be used as an excuse to further erode public assembly and protest rights
Contents – Modi’s India: The Age of Intolerance
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In Mexico, a journalist is attacked every 13 hours. The government is to blame
Under fire from organised crime and from the government, reporters working in Mexico have been subject to nearly 700 attacks in the past calendar year. We speak to the journalists for whom these stats are a daily reality
Israel: Free expression hangs in the balance
The attack on the Supreme Court is just one way in which due process and dissent are coming under fire
Academic freedom under threat for more than 50% of world’s population
The ability to express and discuss ideas openly is being curtailed in univerisites, new data published by the Academic Freedom Index reveals
Brazil is falling into an abyss
Attacks on free expression in the country are the worst since the dictatorship ended in 1985, writes a journalist from Brazil
Major new global free expression index sees UK ranking stumble across academic, digital and media freedom
A major new global ranking index tracking the state of free expression is published today
Tyrant of the year 2022 named
You voted in your thousands and there was a clear winner, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador
2023: No calm water ahead
Happy New Year! I think we can all agree, regardless of where we live, that 2022 was a tumultuous year. There was seemingly a new crisis every day. Totalitarian regimes moving against their populations became increasingly normal, from Iran to...