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Downtown Hong Kong waterfront. Photo by 蓝茶 Bluetea on Pexels, used under Pexels licence. This post first appeared in The Hong Konger on July 2, 2024. The Hong Konger is an independent global English-language platform that explores Hong Kong identity and the discourse of the diaspora through rich and diverse content about society, politics, business, culture and lifestyle. This edited version is being republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. “Exile is a heavy word,” I told my friend when she asked if I considered myself an exile. She urged me not to label myself as su...
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Screenshot from YouTube video, ‘LGBTQ Kenyans face backlash after rights group’s court win‘ by FRANCE 24 English. Fair use. This article was written by Linda Ngari with support from the Initiative for Equality and Non Discrimination (INEND) to monitor and debunk misinformation targeting Kenya's LGBTQ+ community online and offline. A Supreme Court of Kenya ruling meant to reaffirm the rights of queer Kenyans as guaranteed in the Constitution was ironically used to unleash unbalanced, politically-motivated homophobia, especially by the political class and right-wing lobby groups. The ruling that...
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Image made by Giovana Fleck, used with permission. Since April 2023, Sudan has experienced armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) — the official military of the Republic of Sudan — and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), an armed group formed in 2013, during the regime of the ousted president Omar al-Bashir. This conflict escalated dramatically when, in February 2024, the RSF seized control of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Khartoum, the capital city of Sudan, and imposed a telecommunication blackout in the country. The telecommunication blackout deprived Sudanese people from...
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Sydney Jackson with his boxing students in Tashkent. Screenshot from the video “«Феномен Сиднея Джаксона» документальный фильм” from Uzbek TV‘s YouTube channel. Fair use. The Uzbekistan men’s national boxing team created history at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris by winning gold in five out of eight weight categories, which helped it go down as the most successful performance in the history of Olympic boxing. Hasanboy Dusmatov (up to 51 kg), Abdulmalik Khalokov (up to 57 kg), Asadhudja Muidinhujaev (up to 71 kg), Lazizbek Mullojonov (92 kg), Bakhodir Jalolov (over 92 kg) all became Olympic c...
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Image by Giovana Fleck, used with permission. This story is part of Data Narratives, a Civic Media Observatory project that aims to identify and understand the discourse on data used for governance, control, and policy in El Salvador, Brazil, Turkey, Sudan, and India. Read more about the project here and see our public dataset for the full analysis covered in the text below. In recent years, the Indian government has been proactive in expanding its control over online spaces, and website blocking has been a strategic tool in its arsenal. A report last updated in March 2024 by digital rights or...
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Photo by Issam Hajjaj, illustrated by Zena El Abdallah, used with permission. This story was written by Issam Hani Hajjaj and originally published in Arabic by UntoldMag on August 1, 2024. It was translated into English by Walid El Houri and published on Global Voices with permission. The reality in Gaza is more challenging than one might imagine. Two weeks ago, I drank what was supposed to be potable water. My stomach still aches from time to time, even today. The water is as potable as Gaza is livable. A week after we were displaced from the European Hospital in Gaza to the Al-Mawasi humanit...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s attendance at NATO's 75th annual summit in Washington once again underlined the fundamental ways in which Ankara seeks to undermine the alliance’s vital security interests. NATO is a military alliance, consisting of 32 countries, which came into existence in 1950, with the premier mission to counter the threat posed by the Soviet Union. While this alliance has historically been fairly unified, Ankara is pursuing a strategy of hedging against NATO, thereby endangering the group's efforts to mitigate the security challenges of great pow...
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Image by Rezwan. Used with permission. For almost two centuries, Indian citizens were governed by criminal laws enacted by the colonial British government in the 19th century. These were the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC), the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973) (CrPC, originally from 1861), and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (IEA). In an effort to modernize and Indianize the legal frameworks governing citizens in independent India, the government decided in August 2023 to move past the ‘colonial legacy’ and revamp the nation’s criminal legislation. This legislative overhaul was a momentous one, g...
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616KW Solar Project Installed at Mahmood Textile Mill, Muzaffargarh. Screenshot from YouTube video by DSG Energy. Fair Use. Just a few years ago, Hasilwala, a rural area in Punjab, was a desolate landscape. Thanks to innovative solar technology, the community invested in irrigation and farming, breathing life into the dry soil. Now, that same technology threatens to displace them as the Pakistani government is looking to acquire over 2,500 acres of land to establish a solar power plant, a development that threatens to uproot families who have transformed their once barren land into flourishing...
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Image created using Canva Pro elements. By Patriann Smith At the start of 2024, Scientia Global, an international platform that opens dialogue between science and society, published a lay article about my work on X (formerly Twitter), amassing a viewership of over half a million. Attention to one of my academic articles that it referenced was itself almost immediately transformed: the piece shifted into the 99th percentile and was ranked in the top five percent of over 25 million research outputs across all sources, according to Altmetric. In fact, it held the top spot out of 198 research outp...
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