The law in the UK is being weaponised to silence victims of sexual violence - but the government could learn a lesson or two ...

A Hungarian journalist reveals the indications that things were changing after 16 years of rule by Viktor Orbán ...

Sadigov had been living in the Georgian capital Tbilisi since 2023, after he left having been persected in his home country ...

As Hungary goes to the polls, Index looks at the Viktor Orbán-funded institute which is bringing together far-right leaders ...

Twenty-seven years after the assassination of Serbian newspaper publisher and editor Slavko Ćuruvija in Belgrade, the undersigned media freedom organisations mark the upcoming anniversary of the ...

Index on Censorship is the UK partner for the USA Coalition, which runs Banned Books Week. The celebration was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in ...

Reframing the US government’s relationship with the media and placing free speech and democracy in the firing line is at the heart of Project 2025, the 922-page policy plan supported by over 400 ...

Hungary has been on our radar for a long time. The prime minister Viktor Orbán is not an autocrat like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, but he has been slowly eroding his society’s democratic institutions and ...

At its core, freedom of religion or belief requires freedom of expression. Both fundamental rights are protected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet nearly half of all countries penalize ...

In a secondary academy in England, a librarian is putting books into a box. Just moments before, they were proudly on the shelves, rainbow flags waving across their covers and words such as “queer” ...

It should now be clear to everyone that the year 2026 will be marked by the march of the far right further into the mainstream of European politics. Each of the major European powers now has an ...