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Photo by Cecilie Bomstad on Unsplash. Used under an Unsplash license. This article was written by Arina Ruble and originally published in Russian by Novaya Vkladka on August 7, 2024. An edited version, translated by Anastasia Pestova, is published on Global Voices with permission. How has life changed for queer people across different regions of Russia after the ban on the LGBTQ+ “movement?” What do they fear and dream about? All names have been changed for safety reasons. Music in the city of TomskAnya and Nastya are musicians who perform in bars and clubs in Tomsk. They met five years ago. B...
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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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Illustration by Minority Africa, used with permission. This story, which has sensitive content, was written by Shuimo Trust and Nkengafack Eucharia, and originally published by Minority Africa on July 28, 2024. An abridged version is republished below as part of a content-sharing agreement. It was a deceptively sunny Monday in Cameroon’s embattled northwest region. The streets lay eerily silent — shops shuttered, taxis absent. It was no ordinary day off but a “ghost town” enforced by Anglophone separatists in their war against the Francophone-dominated government. Into this tense calm stepped ...
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A girl on the march on Freedom Day of Belarus 2023 in Warsaw. Photo by Andrew Keymaster on Unsplash. On Thursday August 1, there was a prisoner exchange between Russia and several Western countries. According to media reports, 24 people were involved, including the pardoned German, Rico Krieger, in Belarus. However, none of the other Belarusian political prisoners were part of the exchange. A lot of Belarusian social media users expressed feelings of both sadness and loss of hope, with one saying, “We were so hoping that – what if – Masha too […] But there was no one to break the birch tree.” ...
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Newlyweds at the Pride to Be event on June 25, 2024. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. This report by Hillary Leung was originally published at Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on July 6, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement. The banquet hall in Hong Kong’s Eaton Hotel has seen countless wedding celebrations, but never quite like this: there was not one newlywed couple, there were 10; and the officiant appeared not standing before them, but on a screen via Zoom, her time zone in the US state of Utah putting her 14 hours behind the city. Standing beneath a flower...
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Barbed wire fence. Photo by Ed Hinchliffe on Unsplash Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski announced on the evening of June 22 that the authorities are currently considering closing two operating border crossings on the border with Belarus, writes independent Belarus media outlet Belsat. “Given Belarus's actions, we are considering closing all border crossings,” said Sikorski as reported by Business Insider. According to Sikorski, the government is currently determining “whether this is harmful to the economy.” “The Finns closed the border crossings with Russia, and the problems ended,” a...
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A poster during a protest in Rio de Janeiro, on June 13, 2024, reads in English: ‘Forced pregnancy is torture! Neither arrested, nor dead.’ Photo by Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil, used under license Thousands of Brazilian women took to the streets in different cities this mid-June to protest a proposed bill that could make access to safe and legal abortion even harder, criminalizing rape victims and taking back rights that are already guaranteed to them on the current legislation. The bill 1904/24 was proposed by an evangelical congressman, Sóstenes Cavalcante, of the same Liberal Party (PL) ...
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Screenshot of a YouTube video about Yan Dvorkin (on the image) from the YouTube Channel MRR. Fair Use. Newsmaker reported that the founder and head of the Russian Center T (which helps transgender and non-binary people) Yan Dvorkin attended the Pride march in Chișinău on June 16, 2024. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity and published it with permission from Newsmaker. In 2023, the Russian Ministry of Justice included Center T in the registry of “foreign agents.” That same year, the Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow fined Yan Dvorkin RUB 100,000 [1200 USD] for allege...
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Portraits of Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean president Kim Jong Il side by side during Putin's recent visit to Pyongyang. Screenshot ofYouTube video of the NewsEnd Channel. Fair use. Relations between Russia and North Korea have grown closer since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, writesthe BBC. Last week, Vladimir Putin made his first official visit to the country since 2000. State media footage showed tens of thousands of people lining the cleared streets of the capital as the leaders’ motorcade passed through. According to the state news agency, the two leaders discussed enhan...
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The Democracy Movement Strike Committee-Dawei in Tanintharyi Region’s Long Lone Township organized a protest against the Myanmar junta by celebrating the 79th birthday of detained Myanmar leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo from the X post of The Irrawaddy, a content partner of Global Voices. “Flower Strikes,” community protests, and solidarity actions were held on June 19 across Myanmar to push for the release of detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and over 20,000 political prisoners. Suu Kyi celebrated her 79th birthday under the custody of the military junta which grabbed power in Febru...
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