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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Iran’s invisible children

Aug 3, 2019 by

Iran’s invisible children

Baloch children in Iran. Photo by Mostafameraji (CC BY-SA 4.0) There are more than one million people undocumented people in Iran,...

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Lack of diverse media ownershi...

Jul 29, 2019 by

Lack of diverse media ownership leads to censorship in Pakistan says new report · Global Voices

Written by Waleed Tariq In Pakistan, a small number of companies dominate the country’s media landscape in terms of both...

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Online photo collection gives ...

Jul 25, 2019 by

Online photo collection gives inside glimpse of Occupation-era Japan—and saga of Japanese-American internment

The Theodore Akimoto Family Collection is hosted by the Densho Digital Repository Caption: “General MacArthur alights from...

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Why are people debating the pr...

Jul 21, 2019 by

Why are people debating the proposed car-free day in Colombo?

For Sri Lankan women, cars are buffers from street harassment The Colombo Municipal Council recently announced that the city’s...

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How Nigeria uses the law to re...

Jul 17, 2019 by

How Nigeria uses the law to repress free speech: The case of journalist Jones Abiri

Nigeria’s wavering commitment to free speech and press freedom. Nigerian journalist Jones Abiri (third from left) with his legal...

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A look at indigenous women in ...

Jul 15, 2019 by

A look at indigenous women in Mexican cinema

Yalitza Aparicio (“Roma”, 2018) isn’t the only one shining At’ Anii’ (Your Lover) is a film completely in the...

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Victoria Espinosa: Farewell to...

Jul 12, 2019 by

Victoria Espinosa: Farewell to a tireless activist for Puerto Rican theater

She directed over 120 plays. Victoria Espinosa: March 26, 1922 – July 6, 2019. Image taken from YouTube video. On July 6, 2019,...

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This is how Hungarian villages...

Jul 10, 2019 by

This is how Hungarian villages fought back against planned nuclear waste repositories in the 1980s

“We’ve done a lot of things that were very new at that time.” This story was published in Hungarian and English by...

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Playing against patriarchy: Mu...

Jul 1, 2019 by

Playing against patriarchy: Muslim girls in India own the ‘male Space’ by playing football

In Kolkata, Muslim girls play football to fight against patriarchyT Screenshot from “Playing Against Patriarchy: Muslim Girls own the...

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‘Silence and invisibility hide...

Jun 25, 2019 by

‘Silence and invisibility hide under the sham that is Mexico’s racial intermixing’

An interview with Mexican anthropologist Scarlet Estrada Scarlet Estrada. Photo: Afroféminas. Used with permission. The following is...

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Bangladeshi surfer girls are p...

Jun 24, 2019 by

Bangladeshi surfer girls are pushing back against conservative gender norms

For the Surfer Girls, the opportunities are endless Image Credit: Rashed Alam, Bangladesh Surf Girls And Boys. Used with permission...

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‘Everything is destroyed’: Ins...

Jun 7, 2019 by

‘Everything is destroyed’: Inside the ruins of Marawi City in the Philippines

Karlo Mongaya – Two years after the siege, the city lays in ruins Photo by Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Arlene Brosas....

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