The most critical lesson we've learned from the
#COVID19
outbreak is the importance of
#freespeech
"There is pressure in Hong Kong to silence discussion of the disease and punish doctors who are raising the alarm about its origins"
🇻🇪🗳️ What happened the day after Venezuela's presidential elections? A lot!
We made a collaborative explainer with Venezuelan independent media
@CaracasChron
about the election crisis and the protests throughout the country.
Palestinian American author
@randajarrar
was forcibly removed from a
@PENamerica
event for disrupting ceasefire opponent Mayim Bialik by reading the names of Palestinian writers killed by Israeli forces in
#Gaza
.
@The_NewArab
Tabish Aijaz, a young medical student from Anantnag district in
#Kashmir
, is using her natural ability to paint to beat the stress caused by exams and the COVID 19 pandemic.
#Arts
Since mid June, no supplies are being allowed past Azerbaijani checkpoint.
#Azerbaijan
has also blocked International Red Cross vehicles from entering the region citing "contraband" prevention measures.
#Armenia
Since its inception in 1999, the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light minority has been subjected to systematic oppressed based on a belief that they are heretics.
Job Amupanda, university teacher and leader of the Affirmative Repositioning movement went from advocating for land reform to being elected as mayor of
#Namibia
's capital city, Windhoek.
@lisavrnka
Our contributor
@LuisCarlos
has been detained by Nicolas Maduro’s security forces and we don’t know his whereabouts. He is a well known journalist who has never been shy of speaking truth to power.
#D
óndeEstáLuisCarlos
#Venezuela
Israa Al-Ghomgham, a Saudi woman facing the death penalty for peaceful protest "raises the alarm about the fate of dozens of activists who are currently detained without charge or trial "
Detention of Gaspard Glanz is a sign of France’s increasingly authoritarian treatment of journalists "threatened with jail sentence, the goal is obviously to uncover the source of their information"
Global Voices call for stories about
#Ukraine
Global Voices is piloting a project of paid and commissioned stories about Ukraine by Ukrainians regardless of current location. Stories can be pitched and written in Ukrainian, English or Russian.
Global Voices is seeking to recruit subeditors to edit stories written in or translated into English by our contributors. We strongly welcome candidates from outside North America and Western Europe.
Leading Chinese dissident artist
@aiww
believes that
#HongKong
artists can still find ways to express themselves despite the challenges posed by growing political censorship.
@hkfp
A local strongman notorious for harassment of female employees in a remote
#Serbia
municipality received a three-month prison sentence in a trial billed as the first high-profile
#MeToo
case in the country.
@MarijaLukic36
@nedavimobgd
The internet plays a role in imposing hegemonic language, but young people are using it to carve space for their languages.
@MelissaVidaa
#Australia
#Mexico
End Impunity, Free Expression! "For us, the culture of impunity surrounding attacks on journalists represents one of the single greatest threats to freedom of expression worldwide."
@IFEX
As a young, black, favela-bred lesbian woman activist, she championed several underrepresented demographics in Brazil's institutional politics and was beloved by activists across the country
#MariellePresente
New York Times ad for Nairobi bureau chief riddled with clichés about Africa "Here we go again: the
@nytimes
appear to want to hire Tarzan as the next East Africa Bureau Chief."
#COVID
ー19 Global coverage for a pandemic … We are an international network of reporters, speaking over 100 languages covering the consequences of
#COVID19
. Given the scale and scope of the pandemic, we are now organizing our coverage based on regions.
Ecuador's indigenous Amazonian peoples launch online COVID-19 tracker "Data will always give us an argument, a technical basis to support public health actions."
At least two Chinese social media platforms have added a script to their sites and applications to generate a hidden digital watermark to track the original user behind screenshot sharing.
#China
📍
@Sally_abed
is a Palestinian leader of Standing Together (
@omdimbeyachad
) (Omdim be'Yachad/ Naqef Ma'an), the largest Jewish-Arab grassroots movement in Israel. She is running for city council in Haifa as head of a Jewish-Arab list.
Our latest special coverage:
#Russia
's brazen invasion of
#Ukraine
marks a dangerous new phase in the history of Eastern Europe, with serious implications for the post-Cold War international order.
The life of Egyptian blogger and activist
@Alaa
Abd El Fattah is in danger. The 39-year-old was jailed in 2019 on charges of spreading fake news, but, despite the limits of Egyptian law, he has yet to go to trial.
@ellerybiddle
#FreeAlaa
#Egypt
This
#WorldPressFreedomDay
we wish to revisit some of the stories we have published that highlight the importance of defending a free press around the world.
#WPFD2019
The police data leak was in retaliation for "aggressive and cruel repression to the demonstrations of popular and democratic power," member
@EterSec_
of the Anonymous group told Global Voices.
@MelissaVidaa
#OpColombia
Istanbul's renowned
#BogaziciUniversity
has been swayed by mass protests since early January demanding the resignation of a new rector appointed by President Erdoğan.
@arzugeybulla
#Turkey
As multilingual community, we celebrate the fact that Asterix comics have been translated in +100 languages and dialects. We pay homage to coauthor Albert Uderzo (92) who passed away today in his home in France. Photo:
#Asterix
and Obelix in English, Croatian, French and Serbian