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Friday, 01 July 2022
** Fifty years of Pride and prejudice
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Pride started as a way to give voice to the silenced, but it lost its way. On the 50th anniversary of the first march in London, Peter Tatchell talks about the new protest movement ([link removed]) that has emerged. Photo: Peter Tatchell
** You can't "put the genie back in the bottle"
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A panel of activists and journalists from Hong Kong reflect on the rights landscape post-handover and why freedom is something they will never give up fighting for. Read the report of our event ([link removed]) held with the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong in Parliament earlier this week.
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** An unwelcome return to the 1970s
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[link removed] for women's rights, widespread strikes, rampant inflation. Have we turned the clock back fifty years?
Index on Censorship was launched in the early 1970s. In theory the world was a very different place, but in recent days the news does feel a little like déjà vu. Read Index CEO Ruth Smeeth's latest blog post here ([link removed]) .
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** Lukashenka's justice on show
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As Andrei Aliaksandrau and his fiancé face treason charges, another activist, Inna Kavalionak, shares her own experiences ([link removed]) of Belarus' court system.
Photo: Belta.by
** The dangers of "red tagging" and other lessons from the Philippines
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Read our fascinating interview with Rey Valmores ([link removed]) , a 25-year-old political activist, on the challenges faced by campaigners in the Philippines ahead of the inauguration of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr. Photo: Majority World CIC/Alamy
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