How have the rallies in Hong Kong affected the lives of Filipino migrant workers? What are their thoughts about the protests?

Global Voices talked with lawyer and environmentalist Afroz Shah, prominently known for launching the world's largest beach clean-up drive in India's financial capital, Mumbai.

Over a third of young Czechs are unable to make a link between the date of August 21, 1968 and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Why was McDonald fired and reappointed so many times? Does Trinidad and Tobago have a culture of enabling corruption? The minister's arrest has prompted a wider debate.

The measure would make it easier for the authorities to identify the owners of registered SIM cards.

"By trying to impose a ban the government will simply make itself look foolish or ineffective."

A network of 200,000 accounts operated in conjunction to undermine the legitimacy of the Hong Kong movement, Twitter said in a statement.

The state media network CCTV launched the “1.4 billion national flag protectors” campaign on August 4, 2019. Screen capture from CCTV The propaganda machine of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has shifted from censoring most content on the Hong Kong

After Narendra Modi's government in India scrapped Article 370, many Pakistanis asked the ruling party to take action.

Photo by Pawan Sharma on Unsplash. Zimbabwe, along with three other Southern African nations, has submitted a proposal for the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Specials of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to be amended to allow trade in iv

LGBTQ+ identities are gaining legal and social recognition in Vietnam, as a documentary illustrates.

In the face of border searches, Hong Kong protesters are picking up new technology tactics to mitigate their risk.

In the past few years, Pakistan saw an increasing number of harassing women on the street by means of indecent exposure or exhibition. Police already arrested three men.

With the communication blackout inside Kashmir, netizens elsewhere resorted to Twitter to speak out against India's revocation of the region's autonomous status.

Dadiyata, a fierce critic of Kano State Governor Umar Ganduje, was abducted on August 1 and nothing has been heard of him since.

"What is happening in Kashmir is 'normal' in the sense that state-backed violence, deceit and lies, gag on civilian voices, and govt propaganda have always been a 'normal' in Kashmir."

Teachers and management team of the Refugee Learning Center (RLC). Source: Facebook page of RLC, used with permission. In West Java, a group of volunteer refugees established the Refugee Learning Center (RLC) to provide education and empower fellow r

A controversial art exhibition at an arts festival in Japan has led to government criticism, threats, at least one arrest, protests by artists and questions about freedom of expression.

Fact-checkers in North Macedonia have traced the original source of the bribe article and uncovered a complex trail of disinformation spanning at least four countries.

"Behind the instagrammable image of the fierce-looking individual with a clenched fist is a person who is constantly rationalizing and reaffirming their fidelity to radical politics."

Nepal's only museum on musical instruments is facing eviction amidst lack of support from researchers and general visitors. Global Voices talks to Ram Prasad Kadel, the founder, and curator.

"Not only is [the number of] Nepali writers who write in English slowly growing but the translation of literary works from Nepali to other languages is gaining momentum too."

In Burundi, so far this year, malaria has affected 5,738,661 million people — that's about half its population. Yet, the government hesitates to declare an epidemic.

On July 31, Mozambique's Constitutional Council approved four candidates: Filipe Nyusi, Ossufo Momade, Daviz Simango and Mário Albino.

"They are not made to forge a reality, but a certain situation, with humour and in a critical way."

For years, Turkey has been exploiting tools offered by social media platforms to restrict illegal content in a particular jurisdiction, to silence critical voices.