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CATEGORY: Afghanistan
Women journalists caught in middle of Afghanistan’s nightmare
Many journalists – women in particular – have fled the Taliban or are in hiding from the brutal regime
Contents – Playing with fire: how theatre is resisting the oppressor
The Winter issue of Index magazine highlights the battles fought by theatre of resistance across the world and how they've been enduring different forms of censorship. Writer Jonathan Maitland dives deeply into the history of theatre censorship in...
Suffering in silence: The poetry of Parwana Fayyaz
Three poems on the lives of women in Afghanistan
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...
Call for Afghan actors, writers and film-makers to be given safe passage
More than 80 luminaries from the world of film and theatre have written an open letter to The Times
Sharing the stories that need to be told
Index’s CEO looks ahead to this weekend’s Freedom of Expression Awards
“We made promises to the people of Afghanistan”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="117302" img_size="full" add_caption="yes"][vc_column_text]Yesterday I met with my local Afghani community. I left in tears. Their stories of heartbreak, of worry for their friends and families and their...
Afghan journalists facing an impossible choice under the Taliban
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] For five days after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban insurgency, Mariam (not her real name) didn’t leave her house. As a professional athlete, this was very unusual. However, 23-year-old Mariam is also one of the...
Why we must not change the channel
The news from countries around the globe is appalling but we need to bear witness