A ban on female healthcare workers is leaving women’s health and maternity services in a dire situation under Taliban rule ...

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On the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Index explores how healthcare is being used as a ...

Campaigner Peter Tatchell was detained on Saturday in a case that shows all that’s going wrong with free speech in the UK ...

“Whistleblowers in Nigeria’s healthcare system often encounter retaliation, including threats, suspension or sacking, and ...

We’ve been here before, with Qatar in 2022. This time we can only hope that speaking up early actually prompts change. We won’t hold our breath though. As our own investigation Oiling the Wheels of ...

The psychological toll of living in a warzone is causing young people to lose their ability to speak Can you stand it up? Those five words were the ones I probably uttered more than any other when ...

Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days On 14 February 1989 Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to execute ...

On the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Index explores how healthcare is being used as a weapon to silence dissidents in the authoritarian state [vc_row][vc_column] ...

Greece has been rocked by accusations of government corruption and a phone-tapping scandal involving opposition politicians and journalists Societies often endanger lives by creating taboos, rather ...

The senior midwife speaks to Index about the culture of silence surrounding maternity care failures in the National Health Service Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, a supporter of Index on Censorship, passed ...

On the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Index explores how healthcare is being used as a weapon to silence dissidents in the authoritarian state “Censorship in ...