Three organisations from Egypt, Palestine and Canada are shortlisted in this Freedom of Expression awards category
2020 awards shortlist: Digital activism nominees announced
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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...
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...
Social sex entrepreneur, artist and top journalist to judge Freedom of Expression Awards
The awards honour champions of free expression and those battling censorship around the world in the field of arts, campaigning, digital activism and journalism.
This Week at Index: Judges announced for 2020 Freedom of Expression Awards
Index on Censorship is proud to announce three new judges for its 2020 Freedom of Expression Awards. These are New York-based artist Molly Crabapple, award-winning Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman and Cindy Gallop, founder of social sex video platform MakeLoveNotPorn.
This Week at Index: A look back at 2019, and a new issue
This week, Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced that he would resign in January – news which was welcomed by all those who have been protesting regularly for him to quit – but which also prompted calls that he should go immediately
This Week at Index: Muscat is going – but not soon enough
This week, Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced that he would resign in January – news which was welcomed by all those who have been protesting regularly for him to quit – but which also prompted calls that he should go immediately
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...
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.