Yulia Tsvetkova is the 2020 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Arts Fellow
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2020 awards shortlist: Digital activism nominees announced
Three organisations from Egypt, Palestine and Canada are shortlisted in this Freedom of Expression awards category
2020 awards shortlist: Meet our campaigning nominees
Campaigners for LGBT recognition in Africa, a group supporting long-term detainees in Turkmenistan, an exiled critic of the Bahraini government and a lawyer who provides pro-bono legal support to Turkish activists have made the shortlist
2020 awards shortlist: Recognising the journalism that lets all the world’s voices be heard
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="112436" img_size="full"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Journalists are at the frontline of protecting freedom of speech around the world and we recognise these annually in Index on...
2020 Arts shortlist: Using rap and YouTube satire to protect free speech
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="112380" img_size="large"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hip-hop, satirical YouTube videos, a youth arts festival and rap are some of the ways in which art is being used today to...
Zehra Dogan: I became more widely known after winning the Index Freedom of Expression Award
We caught up with Dogan to find out what she has been working on since winning the Index on Censorship award.
Mimi Mefo: The voiceless in my country need me and I have to keep writing
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Winner of the 2019 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Journalism Award, the Berlin-based Cameroonian journalist Mimi Mefo was one of less than a handful of reporters working without fear or favour in...
Index urges the Australian government to reconsider its decision to refuse a visa to award-winning journalist Mimi Mefo
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Mimi Mefo, winner of this year’s Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award, is due to give a keynote speech at the Integrity 20 conference in Brisbane. The conference, hosted by Griffith University, is an...
Index kicks off US college tour
Index on Censorship will begin a set of college events across the USA on 21 October 2019 as part of its Free Speech Is For Me programme
Fundación Karisma: The tension around free speech and social media is one of the big issues of our time
We caught up with Carolina Botero Cabrera, executive director of Fundación Karisma, to find out what the organisation has been working on since winning the Index award in April