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Sharp cuts to foreign aid by a number of governments are shrinking the available funds for nonprofits, with digital rights organizations like ours ...

Another fantastic episode in the @Global Voices "Where Are You REALLY From?" mini-pod series, this one about identity, fatphobia, language and more!

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Podcast: Ameya on feeling othered by her own country

I started to realize that, actually, on some level, it made me feel quite terrible and quite alienated. And my own country did not have a space for...

This article is part of the @Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development projects abroad - and, in this case, the discrepancy in coverage of those projects.

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How Chinese media ignores the environmental toll of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa

For Chinese media, the logic is simple: stories that criticize Chinese companies abroad are not stories that sell, politically or commercially.

Reminder for reasons about this incredible @Global Voices virtual panel about authoritarianism with perspectives from Azerbaijan/Turkey, Hong Kong, Venezuela, and Ukraine - and how the signs and tactics repeat themselves or vary:

Terrific interview with a domestic violence survivor whose name was put on the Brazilian law against it.

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The story of Maria da Penha, the woman whose name was given to Brazil's domestic violence law

Penha evaluates the law almost two decades after its enactment: “Women began to realize it was happening within their families, and it changed th...

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Global Voices 20th Anniversary Reader Survey

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A powerful edition of the @Global Voices "Where Are You REALLY From?" podcast. Daria Dergacheva talks with Akwe Amosu about struggles with national identity: "for a while, it was just impossible to say you were from Russia [...] I was scared, and I was ashamed, and I didn't want to do it."

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Podcast: Daria on carrying a Russian identity and setting her children free of it

“Since the invasion started, I decided I don't want my kids to have a Russian identity.”