In a keynote speech at the Internet Librarian International conference, Jodie Ginsberg explored the rights to privacy, security – the right to life – and freedom of expression in an information age
CATEGORY: Academic Freedom
Jonathan Dimbleby: Twisting tigers’ tails (in the name of freedom and responsibility)
Journalist Jonathan Dimbleby is the former chair of Index on Censorship. This lecture was delivered at the 2015 Prix Italia. It is a privilege to be...
Parents petition to remove Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden from school reading lists
Parents and students at a high school in New Jersey have launched a petition to have books, including the play Death and the Maiden by Chilean playwright
Student reading lists: technology and censorship
The technology and censorship reading list combines a number of articles released over a twenty-year period on the interference technology can have on free expression and the technological advances meaning censors are being more easily evaded.
Student reading lists: threats to academic freedom
To tie in with the release of Index’s summer 2015 issue on academic freedom, Index put together a reading list of articles looking at the issues surrounding freedom of speech in universities from all over the world.
Student reading lists: Ken Saro-Wiwa
This reading list groups together a collection of works by and about Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Student reading lists: journalism and censorship
Much of Index on Censorship’s global work involves allowing censored journalists an outlet to publish articles which may be unpublished in their home countries. This reading list, focusing on journalism, looks at issues surrounding freedom of expression and press freedom.
Jade Jackman: An act against knowledge and thought
Index on Censorship youth advisory board member Jade Jackman explains why she thinks counter-terrorism legislation is a threat to academic freedom
Student reading lists: minority groups and censorship
Articles from this list explore the topic of how minority groups are both being censored and also evade censorship.
Student reading lists: censorship in the arts
The arts are an incredibly popular outlet for free expression but too often they are restricted. Index on Censorship have recently published a number of law packs informing artistic organisations of their rights when having their works challenged.
Free speech on campus is a key Index on Censorship project to defend and expand freedom of speech at colleges and universities around the world