Since Iranian singer-songwriter Gola fled her home country in 2011, she has continued her fight for women’s rights in exile
Golazin Ardestani: “They controlled my voice, my body, my agency”
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Big Tech shouldn’t punish women for seeking abortions
With Trump now in office, state and local governments in the USA must push tech companies to protect women’s private data
Joe Mulhall, Solá Akingbolá and Hanna Komar champion silenced musicians
Index on Censorship launches the latest issue of its magazine with a powerful night of poetry and music
Bobi Wine still standing up to oppression in Uganda, politically and musically
Yoweri Museveni’s most formidable challenger refuses to be silenced and remains on the frontline of protest
The war on drill
The police are disproportionately censoring and criminalising music by young Black men, with drill at the forefront
Afghanistan’s female lawyers are the latest target for the Taliban
Pursuing a legal career has become impossible for women in the country. Some of those women told Index their stories
Editor in exile: One journalist’s daring escape from Myanmar
Index travels to Germany to meet exiled newspaper editor Kyaw Min Swe, who faced torture and imprisonment at the hands of the military junta
Liam Payne’s death signals an epidemic of silence in the music industry
While the future looks brighter, the mental health of artists has long been neglected
Lukashenka’s election plan is to shut down the internet – again
In the run up to the Belarusian presidential election, Index’s Belarus researcher reflects on her own experience during protest crackdowns in 2020
How might Donald Trump’s executive orders impact free speech?
The new president has signed more than 100 directives that will alter the course of US policy. We look at how they will influence free expression in the “land of liberty”