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Screenshot from YouTube video ‘Religion in South Asia’ by Lentera Data. Fair use. This post by V. Priyatharshan, Rohith Upadhyay and Amin Anwar originally appeared on Groundviews, an award-winning citizen journalism website in Sri Lanka. An edited and shortened version is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. The 2024 Press Freedom Index revealed concerning trends for South Asian countries including India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, indicating a significant decline in press freedom levels. Sri Lanka saw a steep drop from its previous position of 135 in last ye...
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Members of communities affected by agro-industrial expansion. Photo by Greenpeace Africa, used with permission. Land grabbing is a major concern for communities in forested zones in Cameroon, where the government granted concessions to create large-scale industrial agriculture projects. Local communities say this deprives them of their traditional way of life, which includes subsistence farming and using the forest for foraging and rituals. As a result, members of 30 communities threatened by agro-industrial expansion, including the Indigenous Bakas) of the East Cameroon) region, came together...
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Hong Kong Unison hosts a press briefing on the challenges facing Nepalese youths in the city on June 6, 2024. Photo: Hans Tse/HKFP. Used with permission. This report was written by Hans Tse and originally published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on May 20, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. Approximately one in five Nepalese youths in Hong Kong have been sent to Nepal by their parents, with most being made to go against their will, an NGO has said as it highlighted an alarming student dropout rate among the ethnic minority community...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva created on Canva for Global Voices using photos: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/understanding-turkeys-response-to-the-israel-gaza-crisis/ and https://www.ft.com/content/2be8ee72-10fd-11e4-b116-00144feabdc0 While hypocrisy is nothing new in global politics, Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan takes the practice to soaring new heights. He is a seasoned hypocrite, causing irreparable reputational damage to himself, and Turkey’s interests. Erdoğan’s stance on the Gaza war is demonstrative of the pot calling the kettle black. He wants the world to believe he is t...
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The Ascension Cathedral in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Screenshot from the video “Искусство строить на века. Вознесенский кафедральный собор” from Арманжан Байтасов YouTube channel. Fair use. The most famous Christian priest in Central Asia, who condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine, is the former Kazakhstani hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Iakov Vorontsov. At the beginning of the invasion, he publicly spoke about the need for Kazakhstan to withdraw from the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization to “disengage itself in every possible way from the aggressor.” This military...
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Photos of 11 journalists from Kyrgyzstan who were arrested in January 2024. Screenshot from the video “Дело против 11 журналистов сфабриковано // Temirov Live” from Temirov Live YouTube channel. Fair use. This article was written by Alva Omarova for Vlast.kz and published on May 22, 2024. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. In May, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published their 2024 press freedom index, highlighting the region-wide crackdown on freedom of expression in Central Asia. While Turkmenistan remains at the bottom of the table, the sco...
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Making tea in the Sar Khulla mountains of Quetta, Pakistan. Image via Wikipedia by Izharkasi (CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED). There is no season for tea in Pakistan; you drink piping hot tea even just to pass the time. In the past few years, Quetta tea stalls have sprouted across urban centers, attracting people of all ages to enjoy a cuppa at any time of the day. Mostly men and young boys are seen sitting late into the night at these stalls, enjoying time with friends and family. The best part is that Quetta tea is a lot cheaper than other chai cafés and restaurants. History of Quetta tea stallsFor the p...
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Collective fishing mission near Masinloc, Zambales. Photo by John Carlo Magallon. Source: Altermidya, used with permission Several groups led by Filipino fishers organized a sail mission towards the South China Sea (known locally as West Philippine Sea) on May 30 and 31 to challenge China’s four-month fishing ban. The annual fishing moratorium took effect on May 1 as China issued a warning that it will detain “trespassers” and other ships intruding on its maritime territories. According to Chinese state media outlets, the 3.5-month yearly fishing ban, which started in 1999, is an effort to “pr...
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Screenshot of Canadian vlogger Christopher Hughes (yellow hat) in Trinidad, May 2024, taken from the video entitled ‘Port of Spain Peace Walk: ‘A Mother's Cry’ Demands End to Gang Violence’ on the Chris Must List YouTube channel. Self-described “world traveller” Christopher Hughes, a Canadian vlogger who goes by the moniker “Chris Must List,” the name of his YouTube channel, is known for visiting “no-go zones” in various countries, most of them in the developing world (and of those, many in the Caribbean). His most recent stop was the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago where, in mid-M...
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A communications tower in Indonesia. Source: Flickr photo by Richard Wasserman, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Media groups, academics, and human rights advocates are opposing a bill containing proposed amendments to Indonesia’s Broadcasting Law, which would restrict the broadcast of investigative reports and LGBTQ+ content. Introduced in 2020, the bill was deliberated at the House of Representatives in 2023 and minor revisions were made on May 16, 2024. Proponents said updating the 2002 law is necessary to develop a “sustainable broadcasting industry” and to address the challenges brought about by the rise ...
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