Free Speech is Not For Sale campaign is launched

23 Jul 20

Free Speech is Not For Sale campaign is launched in partnership with English PEN. A report done as part of the campaign highlights the problem of so-called libel tourism and English law of defamation’s chilling effect on free speech. As a result of debate following the report’s suggestions, UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw pledges to make English defamation laws fairer.

Index wins Amnesty award

23 Jul 20

Index wins the Amnesty International Media Award, Periodicals Award for the Russia Series.

Imagine art after exhibits at Tate

23 Jul 20

Imagine art after, an Index programme involving linking artists from refugee and migrant communities in the UK to artists from their country of origin, exhibits at Tate Britain.

Former BBC current affairs producer Jo Glanville becomes editor of Index. 

Open Shutters Iraq is launched

23 Jul 20

Open Shutters Iraq, in which photographs and photographic essays made by women from Baghdad, Basra, Falluja, Kirkuk and Mosul, is launched. Women tell their stories of war, sanctions, intifada, siege, kidnapping, grief, love, happiness, times of resistance, achievements and small triumphs through these images and essays. The project is later compiled into a book.