Global Voices · September 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
The Israeli military “offers an important insight into how the latest technologies can be adopted for widespread monitoring and control.”| Global Voices
For members of the Brazilian Academy of Prison Letters, the case is about free speech: “After all, a prison sentence doesn’t strip the person from other fundamental rights.”| Global Voices
Devastating flash floods triggered by cloud burst and glacier lake outburst (GLOF) have killed over 800 people across Pakistan in recent weeks, with entire villages swept away and thousands displaced.| Global Voices
“I envision the audience as humans of all backgrounds, interested in the human condition, yearning for better times, and struggling, as I do, to imagine those futures.”| 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
In a recent scam, several Brazilians gave personal information to scammers after seeing videos that were manipulated by AI, in which famous people appeared to promote a government rewards program| Global Voices
It emerges in late March, it mates and feeds, and then in May returns to its very long hibernation.| Global Voices
...urbanisation, rising education levels, and access to digital platforms have given women new scripts. Child freedom, once unthinkable, is quietly gaining momentum.| Global Voices
Pani puri, India’s iconic street food, now delights beyond South Asia. It has been showcased at festivals worldwide, celebrated by global influencers with memes and songs, showcasing its vibrant, irresistible flavours.| Global Voices
Brazil’s push to regulate Big Tech and protect digital rights is reshaping global debates and provoking backlash from powerful actors opposed to its rights-based, democratic model of internet governance.| Global Voices
Ten years after its first edition and its author’s arrest, a book which adapts philosopher Gene Sharp’s work has a new edition. GV spoke with the author, Domingos da Cruz.| Global Voices
Despite their name, Omada Alithias, the so-called Truth Team, has done more to distort than defend the truth, reflecting the normalization of digital authoritarianism in democratic states.| Global Voices
Works that highlight the violence against Black bodies, exalt beauty in the midst of chaos, [show] the exotic, are still common representations of poverty, and what translates into saleable art.| Global Voices
"This revolution is being carried forward by all kinds of people: frontline protesters, participants in the Civil Disobedience Movement, workers, students, and everyone who refuses to accept military rule."| 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
Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.| Global Voices
English is the official language of Liberia, a country of over 5 million people on Africa’s western coast that was founded in 1822 as a project of the American Colonization Society (ACS).| Global Voices
BL is a subversive genre for women to explore their sexuality beyond gender stereotypes, as its relationships eschew expressions of dominance and reproductive function.| Global Voices
Recent data paints a stark picture of dietary deprivation, particularly among the youngest population.| Global Voices
This story, while highlighting one woman’s courage, is a mirror to a wider neglect, a reminder that Sudan’s crisis is far from over.| Global Voices
The Civic Media Observatory looks into narratives surrounding Syria's transitional president in the aftermath of his toppling of the tyrannical Assad regime after 61 years in absolute control of the country.| 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
Glacial lake outbursts and debris flows will be more destructive and frequent in Nepal in the near future, highlighting the amplified risks of mountain living due to climate change.| Global Voices
“People don’t just sit and wait for aid, but when there’s no condition to survive, they don’t have another choice” explains documentary photographer Liba Taylor, famous for documenting human resilience to adversity.| 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
