Global Voices · October 2025
Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.| Global Voices
Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.| Global Voices
Other countries, such as Colombia and Ecuador, authorized euthanasia through court decisions, making the voting in the Uruguayan parliament a historic milestone.| Global Voices
Across the African continent, from Madagascar to Morocco, young people known as Generation Z, are taking to the streets demanding social justice, and their voices to be heard.| Global Voices
Uzbekistan will get new waste-to-energy (WTE) plants to solve its mounting trash problem, and Chinese waste management companies get to expand their businesses abroad amid overcapacity in the domestic market.| Global Voices
Although in the beginning, digital technology platforms were celebrated as spaces for cultural pride and connection, TikTok has increasingly become a stage where centuries-old clan identities are re-enacted...| Global Voices
Global Voices interviewed Uyghur sociologist Dilnur Reyhan to better understand the challenges facing the Uyghur diaspora, especially in Europe.| Global Voices
China is making a deliberate attempt to weave Africa into its global EV map — not just as a supplier, but as a distribution hub and consumer base.| Global Voices
Up until the beginning of the 20th century, sheep’s milk was the base for all dairy products in Kazakhstan.| Global Voices
The prosecution was triggered by viral videos of Stoptime’s performances on Nevsky Prospect, where the musicians played songs by artists labeled as “foreign agents”: Monetochka, Noize MC, Zemfira, and Pornofilmy.| Global Voices
Communities living near mines often bear the brunt of pollution, environmental degradation, and the economic instability brought by boom-and-bust cycles, while end-users and proprietors enjoy the economic and environmental gains.| Global Voices
Marathi film “Sabar Bonda” offers an intimate exploration of queer life in rural India by blending subtle storytelling with authentic depictions of family and belonging in the context of grief.| Global Voices
While China’s support in the Ivory Coast’s agricultural sector has yielded undeniable fruits, it also comes with complications.| Global Voices
In its dealings with Venezuela, which have included challenges to Maduro’s presidency and a border dispute with Guyana, CARICOM has upheld the region as a “zone of peace.”| Global Voices
The ongoing conflict in Eastern DRC, allegedly fuelled in part by Uganda’s support for M23 rebels, has inflicted devastating consequences on Congolese civilians as well as the wider region.| Global Voices
“Teachers themselves must change first, not the children. Teachers in Myanmar still teach in a military format.| Global Voices
In Togo, the authorities have restated their intentions to regulate online speech, restricting the use of social media amid heightened political tensions.| Global Voices
The landscape architect “showed in a practical and poetic way how the landscape can be a vital infrastructure to urban resilience, integrating man to nature in a sustainable way.”| Global Voices
The 1955 Bandung conference launched a global non-aligned movement that brought Asian and African nations together. Eighty years later, Indonesia and Africa meet again in a musical phenomenon: Disko Africa.| Global Voices
'Lock up netizens who are skeptical of the Chinese establishment, let the regime's loyal cheerleaders pass through the net... and voila you have an army of self-motivated propagandists'.| Global Voices
A news report on stray dog attacks instigated the Supreme Court into action, producing two starkly different orders that exposed tensions between public safety, animal welfare, and India's legal framework.| Global Voices
While China used to be the world's largest waste importer, Southeast Asia is now taking a significant portion of wealthy countries solid waste, leading to negative health outcomes and environmental pollution.| Global Voices
An interview with Togolese author Sami Tchak, exploring how he defines and shapes his francophone writing in the context of the growing visibility of francophone African literatures.| Global Voices
Although kendo scoring is quite subjective, many kendo practitioners fear that rigid rules or technology could push the martial arts toward Western-style sportification.| Global Voices
Connected Conversations is a series of informal, virtual discussion sessions focused on the principles of collective, democratic, participatory, and deliberative data governance.| Global Voices
Kurdish Wikimedian Mohammed Sardar shares why he creates digital content to preserve his native language.| Global Voices
Felca, a popular influencer with 4.2 million subscribers, makes the case that overexposed children online are being exploited for views and profit, while also attracting potential abusers to comment sections.| Global Voices
"After six years of reporting in Hong Kong, and at eight months pregnant, I’m very sad to be leaving my colleagues, friends and the place I’ve called home."| Global Voices
Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.| Global Voices
For Syrians who fled to Sudan seeking safety, the war has reopened old wounds and exposed new gaps in protection.| Global Voices
Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.| Global Voices
"The island closest to paradise has become the island closest to hell."| Global Voices
"The future of New Caledonia cannot be built without its indigenous people. The Kanak voice is the cornerstone of New Caledonia’s common destiny."| Global Voices
Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.| Global Voices
Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.| Global Voices
Nurbolat Shalayit is one of hundreds of thousands of Xinjiang minorities whose current whereabouts are uncertain.| Global Voices
‘Extraordinary rendition’ has passed into common parlance over the last year as human rights organisations have accused the US government of exporting suspects to be tortured in regimes like Egypt,...| Global Voices
"De-escalation is crucial to preventing a broader humanitarian crisis and restoring stability for communities on both sides."| Global Voices
"The pace and pathway for an amicable resolution of Kanaky-New Caledonia’s decolonisation challenges cannot, and must not continue to be dictated in Paris."| Global Voices
A video went viral last month seemingly depicting Indonesian military forces torturing a man from West Papua. For over 60 years West Papuans have been fighting for independence from Indonesia.| Global Voices
"It is irresponsible and disrespectful to punish the very people that the company relies on for its success in pursuit of shareholder profits."| Global Voices
Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 during the first Karabakh war in a show of solidarity with its long-time ally Azerbaijan. Since then, ties between Turkey and Armenia have remained strained.| Global Voices
"Does society perceive them as people with dreams and aspirations, or solely as vulnerable and marginalised with scarce opportunities all the time?"| Global Voices
