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Photographer Tom Bradley has been documenting the lives of those living with leprosy.

How General Pinochet inadvertently helped create Chile’s thriving music scene. By Anne Hoffman.

Stories that didn't make the mainstream media in 2014.

John Perry Barlow’s visionary 1996 statement.

Privacy International’s Eric King on resisting surveillance.

Not necessarily opposed, argues Sunil Abraham.

Investigative journalist Nick Davies on the myth of press freedom.

How the internet got colonized, by Jillian C York.

Dunja Mijatović makes the case for light-touch regulation.

Micah L Sifry assesses the political limits of social media.

The internet, laws and conventions, mass surveillance, media freedom and censorship - facts and figures about democracy in the digital era.

Further information, campaign groups and websites.

Activist and Icelandic Pirate Party MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir on what we can do and the tools we can all use to strengthen democracy and make it real.

The Drum Tower by Farnoosh Moshiri; The Final Charge by Dawood Ali McCallum; The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck; They Can’t Represent Us! by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini.

Citizenfour directed by Laura Poitras; We Are The Giant directed by Greg Barker; Winter Sleep directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.