A coalition of international press freedom organisations has hit out at a move to force some Russian “government-controlled” TV stations off Lithuanian airwaves
Lithuania: Press freedom groups decry proposed bans on Russian TV channels
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#IndexAwards2015: Digital activism nominee Valor por Tamaulipas
Valor por Tamaulipas is a crowd-sourced news platform, based in Mexico and set up in 2012 to fill the void created by the region’s cartel-induced media blackout.
Russia seeks to gag UN high commissioner on human rights
As so often at the sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council, some interventions by states go unnoticed, but one in particular — Russia’s — must be called out
#IndexAwards2015: Digital activism nominee Tamás Bodoky and Atlatszo.hu
Atlatszo.hu is an investigative news outlet founded and managed by Tamás Bodoky, the main goal of which is to promote free, transparent circulation of information in Hungary
How Afghanistan’s female journalists are covering the stories no one else can
The country’s female journalists are playing a vital role in society, but threats remain
#IndexAwards2015: Campaigning nominee Rechts gegen Rechts
Rechts gegen Rechts is an initiative set up in 2014 in Wunsiedel, Germany, to peacefully counter an annual neo-Nazi march through the streets of the small town.
Padraig Reidy: George Galloway’s dear tweeter letters
TV presenter George Galloway has taken to wearing a black fedora, indoors. I know this, because I have seen him doing so on at least one of his TV shows
#IndexAwards2015: Campaigning nominee Soldiers’ Mothers
Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia is an NGO network dedicated to improving transparency and exposing human rights abuses in the Russian military
#IndexAwards2015: Campaigning nominee Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar
Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar is an Afghan journalist and the executive director of the media advocacy group Nai Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan, which works to develop a free media as the country develops a peacetime society.
#IndexAwards2015: Campaigning nominee Amran Abdundi
Amran Abdundi is a women’s rights activist based in northeastern Kenya. She runs the Frontier Indigenous Network, an organisation which mobilises female peace builders and rights activists to set up shelters along the dangerous border with Somalia.