How Ethiopia’s ruling coalitio...

Oct 21, 2019 by

How Ethiopia’s ruling coalition created a playbook for disinformation

Mis- and disinformation online fuels pre-election suspicions in Ethiopia By Endalk – A deep split that exists within Ethiopia’s...

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Colombian farmers use agroecol...

Oct 17, 2019 by

Colombian farmers use agroecology to to solve economic and heal

By Andrew J. Wight – Farmer Carlos Osorio checks up on the kitchen garden at his produce store and restaurant in La Hojarasca,...

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South Park creators mock the N...

Oct 14, 2019 by

South Park creators mock the NBA with a sarcastic apology to China

‘the boys realize that they can’t betray their ideal’ One single tweet about Hong Kong demonstrations is able to...

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A burqa controversy in Khyber ...

Oct 9, 2019 by

A burqa controversy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Can Islamic veils protect school girls from any ‘unethical incident’? A shuttlecock burqa is the most concealing of all Islamic...

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Press freedom watchdog dismiss...

Sep 30, 2019 by

Press freedom watchdog dismisses China’s ’70 Years of Progress on Human Rights’ as ‘smokescreen’

Ahead of the 70th anniversary of the People Republic of China, the Chinese State Council Information Office issued a white paper on...

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Undercover journalist exposes ...

Sep 30, 2019 by

Undercover journalist exposes harsh working conditions at Amazon warehouse in Japan

Written by Nevin Thompson A worker at an Amazon fulfillment center in Japan. Screencap from Amazon Japan promotional video. A new...

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Zanzibar’s one and only music ...

Sep 24, 2019 by

Zanzibar’s one and only music academy on the brink of closure

For the 1,800 talented students who have trained at the DCMA, this is the only musical home they know, where they can learn and grow...

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Once hotbeds of political resi...

Sep 22, 2019 by

Once hotbeds of political resistance, Czech secondhand bookstores are slowly disappearing

The few surviving “antikvariat” have turned into nostalgia museums. An antikvariát store in Prague. In order to sustain...

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Millions in India’s north-east...

Sep 15, 2019 by

Millions in India’s north-eastern Assam state at risk of losing citizenship

Approximately 1.9 million people are in the risk of becoming stateless in the northeastern Indian state of Assam after they were...

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‘Glory to Hong Kong’: The anth...

Sep 15, 2019 by

‘Glory to Hong Kong’: The anthem of a protest movement

Tens of thousands of Hongkongers are participating in flash mob performances of the new protest song “Glory to Hong Kong” in the...

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A web comic from Colombia disc...

Sep 5, 2019 by

A web comic from Colombia discusses surveillance and gender in Latin America—to the rhythm of salsa

”Beyond the joke that “every breath you take” seems like it could be written by the NSA, we realized that this is...

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Twitter reveals China’s inform...

Aug 21, 2019 by

Twitter reveals China’s information operations on Hong Kong protests

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

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Refugees in West Java, Indones...

Aug 18, 2019 by

Refugees in West Java, Indonesia have no access to education so they established their own school

Juke Carolina – Teachers and management team of the Refugee Learning Center (RLC). Source: Facebook page of RLC, used with...

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Oral historians and archivists...

Aug 14, 2019 by

Oral historians and archivists fill in the record of the 1947 partition of India

Historians are working on getting the remaining survivors of the Partition to recall the events so their stories can be preserved....

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Withheld in Turkey: How the go...

Aug 13, 2019 by

Withheld in Turkey: How the government exploits removal requests to silence critical and independent voices

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

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Netizen Report: Journalists ar...

Aug 10, 2019 by

Netizen Report: Journalists are under fire from Cambodia to Cuba — and beyond

Technology and human rights news from around the world. A newsstand advertising The Citizen, an independent newspaper in Dar Es...

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Tech innovators in Tanzania co...

Aug 9, 2019 by

Tech innovators in Tanzania connect 5,000 tutors with students in new online platform

Smartclass, a new online platform that connects tutors to students of all ages, is changing the learning environment in Tanzania....

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A Hong Kong artist’s ‘surreal’...

Aug 8, 2019 by

A Hong Kong artist’s ‘surreal’ depiction of the anti-extradition protests

Surrealhk: Colourful sticky notes are taking over the city… literally. Mostly supporting the protests and expressing anger against...

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Two universities sign historic...

Aug 7, 2019 by

Two universities sign historic agreement on slavery reparations in the Caribbean

‘…Reparations is connected to economic development’ The University of Glasgow in Scotland. Photo by Hugo Cadavez,...

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Nigerian schoolgirl abducted b...

Aug 4, 2019 by

Nigerian schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram allegedly dies in captivity

“The president assured me that Leah would come back and that the government was working hard on it…After that, it was...

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