Free expression needs to be at the heart of the Covid vaccine response

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This week saw the first people in the world take the new Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid. There will be no easy way to ensure strong vaccine uptake. But if Index can offer any advice having documented a smorgasbord of attacks on science over the years, it’s that we can’t just rely on “the facts” to win the day. Read the views of Index's Jemimah Steinfeld on the issues at stake.

#HumanRightsDay: We still have
a lot of work to do

Human Rights Day, marked this week, is a day that gives us an opportunity to reflect on how far we’ve come as a society of nations and yet how far we still have to go before the aspiration of protected human rights is universally applied.

The values of Human Rights Day are still being threatened all too often today. Read what our CEO Ruth Smeeth has to say and learn about our #JailedNotForgotten campaign to send messages of hope to those imprisoned for exercising their right.

Swedish publication latest to face Slapp lawsuit in London

Index on Censorship has joined with other press freedom organisations to strongly condemn the legal action that has been filed at the London High Court against the Swedish business and finance publication, Realtid, in connection with their investigation on the financing of energy projects involving a Swedish businessman.