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June 2013: The Multipolar Challenge to Free Expression
The rapid emergence of a multipolar world and the growing political and economic importance of a range of powers including China, India, Brazil and South Africa is increasingly having a significant impact on support for, and repression of, free expression. Many key international issues, from human rights to climate change and free trade, are no longer dominated either by one particular world view or split simply between two rival powers. While China and Russia remain at the repressive end of the spectrum, how widely free speech is defended internationally depends increasingly on the positions of countries like India and Brazil as much as on the values and practices of the US and Europe. In all these democracies, free speech is still in the ascendant but with too many examples of excessive constraints ¬ from internet surveillance and takedown requests to criminalisation of offensive speech.

Index's special report will look at whether there is a multipolar challenge, where constraints at home and lack of courage and principle on the international stage, mean our right to free speech is at risk as the multipolar order continues to develop.

March 2013: "Fallout: Free speech and the economic crisis"
From the United States to Europe, the economic crisis has posed new
threats to free expression, from restrictions on reporting and
demonstrations to the rise of extremism. Is a decline in trust and a
climate of self-censorship dominating the political, cultural and media landscape?

PLUS: the Russian media, lessons from the Arab Spring and the future of
the internet

December 2012: Digital frontiers
From Tunisia to China, activists and journalists are using technology to get vital news out and bring about change. As the battle to control information continues - from government surveillance and online blocking to big business to hacktivists and protesters - Index looks at the key players in the fight for digital freedom. With Rebecca MacKinnon & Ethan Zuckerman: Tools for the future Jennifer Granick: Damage control Gabriella Coleman: Beacons of freedom Eric King: Trade secrets Ahmed Mansoor: free expression in Dubai Milton Mueller: Revolution in crisis Heather Bond: Ushahidi and crowd wisdom Pranesh Prakash: India's internet jam Hu Yong: microblogging in China Alex McGillivray on Twitter Frontline SMS: Anchor to the world. PLUS Fault lines: religion, culture and censorship with Edna Fernandes, Svetlana Mintcheva and Brad Adams AND Fiction from Roma Tearne and Jamal Ali's modern fable.

September 2012: Censors on Campus
Index looks at the threats to academic freedom around the world - from political correctness to the funding squeeze.

June 2012: Sport on Trial
Should sport be above politics and human rights? As London gets ready for the Olympics, Index on Censorship visits the ethical pit stops, asks whether sporting tournaments can be good for democracy and considers the appeal of championships to sports mad dictators – from Vladimir Putin to Alexander Lukashenko. With Mihir Bose giving the inside track on sport and ethics, Natalie Haynes Corinna Ferguson on new threats to the right to protest in the UK, Stephen Escritt and Martin Polley on brand control, Arnold van Bruggen and Rob Hornstra on Russia’s winter challenge, and Leah Borromeo on what the Olympics mean for locals. Plus award-winning Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat, Salil Tripathi on censorship at literary festivals and reports on press freedom from Hungary, Dagestan and Mexico.

March 2012: 40 years of Index on Censorship
Index marks its fortieth anniversary with a special issue marking the highs and lows for freedom of expression since the magazine was founded, and assessing the future for free speech.

December 2011: Dark Matter: What's science got to hide?
As leading scientists question the use and abuse of freedom of information, Index looks at the data wars and the limits of scientific debate. Richard Smith calls for open access; veteran whistleblower Peter Wilmshurst questions a culture of silence; Michael Blastland considers our fear of uncertainty; Sam Geall looks at environmental cover-ups in China and Tracey Brown explains why law can be bad for your health.

September 2011: The Art Issue
Acclaimed sculptor Anish Kapoor takes a stand for artistic freedom in ‘The Art Issue’, a special full-colour edition reporting on censorship in the contemporary art world. Subscribe to read the exclusive interview and more.

Read about the return of the culture wars with contributions from star commentators, critics and artists. Celebrated Spanish artist Eugenio Merino salutes Andres Serrano’s controversial ‘Piss Christ’ and Turner Prize nominees Langlands & Bell write about their own brush with censorship.

Plus: Voina, Russia’s most provocative performance artists, and Yasmine El Rashidi on the role of graffiti in the Arab Spring.

June 2011: Privacy is dead! Long live privacy
Who needs privacy? It’s a human right that isn’t just a concern for the rich and powerful wishing to shield their private lives from the media. Today, it’s an urgent issue for anyone who communicates online. Index on Censorship assesses the threats to our data, considers the impact of tabloid exposés on press standards, explores the world of internet trolls and talks to the UK’s leading privacy judge about striking the balance.

March 2011: The Net Effect: the limits of digital freedom
As digital technology continues to transform the culture of activism and access to information – from revolution in Egypt to reporting on the secret services in Russia — Index on Censorship assesses the ways and means of using new media to get the word out and asks if the United States is internet freedom’s best friend.

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Index on Censorship is an award-winning magazine, devoted to protecting and promoting free expression. International in outlook, outspoken in comment, Index on Censorship reports on free expression violations around the world, publishes banned writing and shines a light on vital free expression issues through original, challenging and intelligent commentary and analysis, publishing some of the world's finest writers.

Index on Censorship was first published in 1972 in response to show trials in Moscow. The idea behind the magazine was to make public the circumstances of those who are silenced in their own countries, wherever that may be, and to publish their work. Since the end of communism, and with an increasingly fragmented world, new and troubling questions have surfaced, some of them challenging the primacy of free expression itself: religious extremism; relative values and cultural difference; the rise of nationalism; the rewriting of history; hate speech; obscenity; freedom on the Internet.

We welcome contributions from anyone concerned with issues of free speech. Our articles range widely from essays to opinion pieces, from oral testimony to fiction and poetry. Index on Censorship is a magazine of record, but we also publish articles intended to promote debate. The views expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of the editors, the publisher, or the advisory committee.

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Our international projects bridge the gap between the monitoring of abuse and effective advocacy for change through facilitation, research, publication, advocacy and new commissioned works. Index on Censorship:

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