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Quinta Health's vaccine advocacy for secondary schools (QVACS). Photo provided by Dr. Adewumi Babatunde, used with permission. Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America and South-East Asia have the highest rates of cervical cancer incidence and mortality in the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women globally. In Nigeria, it is the third most common and the second most frequent cause of cancer deaths among women aged between 15 and 44 years. Current estimates indicate that every year 12,075 new cases and about 8,000 deaths ar...
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A Myanmar smartphone user checks Facebook in 2021. Photo from The Irrawaddy, used with permission. This article by Mi Ei Thinzar Myint was originally published in The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar. This edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Myanmar’s military regime blocked Facebook and other messaging apps following the 2021 coup in a bid to restrict freedom of expression and communication that it believes threatens its rule. The people of Myanmar were using virtual private networks (VPNs), either paid or free versions, to b...
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Image created from Public Domain Pictures by Oiwan Lam. License CC0 Public Domain China issued a set of guidelines for its judiciary on handling crimes related to advocating Taiwan's independence last Friday, June 21 2024. The new guidelines, jointly issued by China’s judicial and security authorities, list out acts of secession and authorize absentia trials and the punishment of “diehard” Taiwan separatists with the death penalty and no statute of limitations. Although the Chinese courts have no jurisdiction over Taiwan, the guidelines state that security authorities can issue global warrants...
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Wombats Xing road sign- Photo courtesy Flickr user Jeff Boyd (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Good news stories about the environment are sometimes hard to find. Enter Australia’s northern hairy-nosed wombat, which has stepped back from the edge of extinction. Wombats are being relocated to Queensland's Powrunna State Forest, the third such site in the nation. The three locations have restricted access to their eucalypt forests which need ‘a specific ratio of sand and clay in the soil to support their burrows’. The Queensland Minister for the Environment, Leanne Linard, was keen to trumpet the latest develop...
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Screenshot of a YouTube video about Yan Dvorkin (on the image) from the YouTube Channel MRR. Fair Use. Newsmaker reported that the founder and head of the Russian Center T (which helps transgender and non-binary people) Yan Dvorkin attended the Pride march in Chișinău on June 16, 2024. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity and published it with permission from Newsmaker. In 2023, the Russian Ministry of Justice included Center T in the registry of “foreign agents.” That same year, the Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow fined Yan Dvorkin RUB 100,000 [1200 USD] for allege...
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Dr. David Robie. Image: Asia Pacific Media Network, used with permission Global Voices interviewed veteran writer and educator David Robie who discussed the state of Pacific media, journalism education, and the role of the press in addressing decolonization and the climate crisis. Professor Robie is among this year’s New Zealand Order of Merit awardees and is on the King’s Birthday Honours list for his “services to journalism and Asia-Pacific media education.” His career in journalism has spanned five decades. He was the founding editor of the Pacific Journalism Review journal in 1994 and in 1...
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English translation of the text in the image: ‘I won't leave Mohna's company.’ Illustration by the author, used with permission. When I was around four years old, my family moved from our village in Bihar to a town in Jharkhand in eastern India. Growing up, whenever I struggled with my studies, my parents would mention the possibility of returning to the village. This prospect, while meant to motivate me, also opened my eyes to the limitations faced by women there. I witnessed underage marriages), restricted mobility for women, and irregular access to basic resources like electricity and water...
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Image © 2024 Appcensorship. Used with permission. When the US House of Representatives passed the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok, a popular video app, to an American company or face being banned in the US, citing national security concerns, the Chinese government criticized the move as “an act of bullying.” Yet, ironically, TikTok, along with other globally popular social media platforms, is also unavailable in China. Conversely, ByteDance tailor-made a local version, Douyin, for Chinese users, to comply with the country’s stringent censorship rules. In fact, TikTok is n...
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Haiti's national police guard removed makeshift barricades made of steel fences and tree branches protesters placed to block the National Palace entrance. Image by Matiado Vilme from Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). In August last year, the Kenyan government announced its interest in sending about 1,500 police troops to Haiti to lead international security efforts to curb gang violence. This was in response to the Haitian government's appeal for help, which was supported by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the United States. Meanwhile, major international governments including the U...
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A suckermouth catfish kept in an aquarium. Image by Maxmann via Pixabay. Used under a Pixabay License A highly invasive vermiculated sailfin catfish, originally from the Madeira River Basin in South America, is poised to be a major threat to native fish in the rivers of Eastern Nepal. Around four years ago, in July 2020, a pair of suckermouth catfish was found in an irrigation canal in Belbari, Morang District of Eastern Nepal. The news quickly went viral in news outlets and social media. Similar reports emerged from the Lohandra River in October 2021, with anecdotal evidence of the fish being...
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