The founder and executive director of Code to Inspire, Fereshteh Forough, addresses the low levels of female education by founding the the first coding school in Afghanistan for girls.
Digital Rights Foundation based in Pakistan works on a cyber-harassment helpline that supports more than a thousand women.
Digital activism group GreatFire launch crowdfunding campaign to fight China’s approach to internet censorship.
The human rights group of lawyers and journalists take up and report on high profile human rights cases in Russia.
These anonymous women are fighting against the restrictions on Iranian women’s use of public spaces, including stadiums.
The National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission is the only organisation in Kenya taking a legal route to fight for LGBTIQ rights.
ECRF has been fighting censorship and defending human rights through its criminal justice programme and online platform to bring students and practitioners online to discuss a student charter related to freedom of association in universities.
Abbad Yahya is a Palestinian writer whose fourth novel Crime in Ramallah has been banned for depictions of gay sex, as well as political commentary about fanaticism and religious extremism.
The Museum of Dissidence represents a new, young generation of artists who are not afraid to challenge Cuba’s still repressive regime.
The Zimbabwean performance artist has been abducted, beaten, and arrested, but has also been internationally recognised for his creative protests.
The Freedom of Expression Awards and Fellowship is a key Index on Censorship programme designed to highlight and amplify the work of some of the world’s most courageous defenders of freedom of expression. Previous winners include Journalist Fergal Keane, novelist Ma Jian, lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, activist Malala Yousafzai, cartoonist Ali Ferzat, journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Fergal Keane, and Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Learn more.