A complete cultural ban has meant musical experts must stop playing or risk their lives. We explore the impact on those in ...

Since Iranian singer-songwriter Gola fled her home country in 2011, she has continued her fight for women's rights in exile ...

Raina Lipsitz is an author and journalist. Living in Brooklyn, her works have been featured in Al Jazeera America, and The ...

On Wednesday, Index launched its latest magazine issue, Unsung Heroes, with an evening of powerful talks, poetry, and music from Joe Mulhall, Rahima Mahmut, Hanna Komar and Solá Akingbolá celebrating ...

Pursuing a legal career has become impossible for women in the country. Some of those women told Index their stories ...

Elections are held in Uganda, but they are usually a sham. Museveni is always assured of victory as he appoints the people ...

The political prisoner remains behind bars after serving a five-year jail term, but his family won’t stop campaigning for his release ...

Censorship of a form of music which affords an already marginalised minority a rare opportunity to express themselves publicly is an attack against their fundamental rights as human beings.

The Russian leader is revisiting the Cold War playbook by using mental manipulation to silence dissidents and its use is growing A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine has ...

Pursuing a legal career has become impossible for women in the country. Some of those women told Index their stories ...