Sarah Dawood
Editor at Index on Censorship
Editor @IndexCensorship | Ex-@NewStatesman @Guardian @Design_Week | DMs open (she/her)
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1 month ago |
indexoncensorship.org | Katie Dancey-Downs |Sarah Dawood |Emma Briant |Georgia Beeston
Today, my son trotted off to school in a hastily assembled knight-doctor-dragon combo, firmly taking on his role as the knight from Zog, whose name I can never get right. Sir Galahad? Sir Gallopalong? Ah yes, Sir Gadabout. This was his first World Book Day, and as a book-loving writer mum, it was quite the moment.
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1 month ago |
indexoncensorship.org | Daisy Ruddock |Sarah Dawood |Jemimah Steinfeld |Alexandra Domenech
As the Oscars season came to a close this weekend, all eyes were once again on Hollywood. The prestigious awards ceremony, which took place on Sunday in Los Angeles, played host to some of the biggest names in cinema, all of whom were hoping to secure one of the infamous golden statuettes afforded to the year’s biggest on-screen successes. This year, many awards were given to Index-worthy films and documentaries, as they bravely called out human rights and free speech abuses.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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