LIVE on August 14: Digital spaces for the Quechua language: safety and inclusion online

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LIVE on August 14: Digital spaces for the Quechua language: safety and inclusion online

This GV Insights is a collaboration between Global Voices and the Center for Democracy and Technology

AfCFTA economic integration initiative aims to create free trade area in Africa

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AfCFTA economic integration initiative aims to create free trade area in Africa

Africa has few initiatives seeking to boost economic integration that benefits all countries on the continent. This is precisely what the African C...

Tyap Wikimedia User Group: Revitalizing Nigeria's Tyap language with digital tools and platforms

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Tyap Wikimedia User Group: Revitalizing Nigeria's Tyap language with digital tools and platforms

"I dream about a future where children grow up speaking Tyap because their parents speak the language to them during childhood."

Podcast: Emma's heart is half in Jamaica and half in England

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Podcast: Emma's heart is half in Jamaica and half in England

“I think it's also a way of sort of placing you so that they can sort of continue with a conversation at a certain level...I feel it's ...

Have the Kurds turned away from the quest for an autonomous state?

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Have the Kurds turned away from the quest for an autonomous state?

After four decades of insurgency, Abdullah Öcalan’s call for democratic politics signals a transformative moment in the Kurdish quest for rights...

Copper, capital, and consequences: China’s mining gamble in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

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Copper, capital, and consequences: China’s mining gamble in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

For Afghanistan, the wins in finally opening the Mes Aynak copper mine are substantial. Yet so are its potential environmental and socio-cultural l...

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Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure

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Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure

Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate ...