Amy Fallon

3 weeks ago | devex.com | Amy Fallon

The last thing that Olivia Barker White wanted to do was to start a charity. She was aware of the “white savior” trope, she said. But feeling that there were not many organizations helping to properly care for slum children in Uganda and reunite them with local families, she felt compelled to. Since 2009, Kids Club Kampala, or KCK, which Barker White co-founded and now runs, has helped over 1.5 million people across multiple slum communities in Uganda.

1 month ago | indexoncensorship.org | Mark Stimpson |Sarah Dawood |Jemimah Steinfeld |Amy Fallon

The beauty and power of Iran’s music is being strangled, with many musicians jailed and tortured purely for raising their voices against the regime’s viciousness and in harmony with those protesting against it. The case of rapper and Index Freedom of Expression award-winner Toomaj Salehi has been the highest profile case of Iran cracking down on freedom of expression among the country’s musicians but he is not alone.

1 month ago | indexoncensorship.org | Sarah Dawood |Jemimah Steinfeld |Alexandra Domenech |Amy Fallon

The news this week has been dominated by the growing feud between Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which has culminated in possibly irreparable relations between the presidents. What started with a meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin on the war in Ukraine (from which Zelenskyy was excluded) ended in a stream of disinformation coming from the leader of the world’s largest economy.

1 month ago | indexoncensorship.org | Sarah Dawood |Jemimah Steinfeld |Alexandra Domenech |Amy Fallon

It would have been difficult to miss the recent flurry of news regarding cuts to international aid organisations, and the repercussions these will have in areas such as climate change mitigation, tackling gender-based violence, and supporting independent journalism in countries with severe free speech violations. Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID (the US Agency for International Development) will decimate such assistance, with more than 90% of the agency’s foreign aid contracts due to be eliminated.

1 month ago | indexoncensorship.org | Sarah Dawood |Jemimah Steinfeld |Alexandra Domenech |Amy Fallon

It would have been difficult to miss the recent flurry of news regarding cuts to international aid organisations, and the repercussions these will have in areas such as climate change mitigation, tackling gender-based violence, and supporting independent journalism in countries with severe free speech violations. Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID (the US Agency for International Development) will decimate such assistance, with more than 90% of the agency’s foreign aid contracts due to be eliminated.