Fifty years of Pride and prejudice

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 that has emerged. Photo: Peter Tatchell

You can't "put the genie back in the bottle"

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 held with the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong in Parliament earlier this week.

An unwelcome return to the 1970s 

Protests 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.
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Lukashenka's justice on show

As Andrei Aliaksandrau and his fiancé face treason charges, another activist, Inna Kavalionak, shares her own experiences of Belarus' court system.
Photo: Belta.by

The dangers of "red tagging" and other lessons from the Philippines

Read our fascinating interview with Rey Valmores, 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