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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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Ukraine has been under a full-scale armed attack by Russian military forces since February 2022. In the face of these dire circumstances, it is no secret that people need food, and all hands must be on deck when they face man-made and natural disasters. In this context, it would be easy to justify that millions of Euros and U.S. dollars are poured into a factory farming project with the potential to feed large swaths of the population. Or would it? This is certainly the line of argument that is being used by development banks such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),...
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The image is a courtesy of Laís Martins. For years, Chinese solar panels were king in Brazil. In 2022, around 99 percent of all photovoltaic panels purchased in Brazil were imported from China, which is the leading global manufacturer of solar energy equipment. Only 1 percent was produced locally. Now, thanks to a government decision to scrap a tax exemption that reduced the cost of importing solar energy equipment that had been ongoing since 2020, this landscape could start changing. The explanation for this wide-ranging adoption of Chinese products is multifaceted. It is partly due to tax re...
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Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. 2015. Photo by Matt Hewit. License CC BY 2.0. Last August, Ecuadorians made history by voting to permanently keep over 700 million barrels of crude oil in the ground beneath one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth. This made Ecuador the first country in the world to halt oil exploitation through a referendum. Ayer Ecuador aprobó dejar bajo tierra para siempre un yacimiento de petróleo que se ubicaba justo en una de las áreas más biodiversas #Yusuní ¿Por qué este resultado? Acá el Preámbulo de su constituciónhttps://t.co/OqvDZlzRVZ pic.twitter.com/ozz2SRQi2R — H...
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A screenshot from GuanXi Taiwan YouTube channel. In Taiwan, the African continent remains largely invisible culturally, economically, and politically — so when Africa Day is marked in Taipei on May 25 each year, it offers a rare occasion for African cultures to be celebrated, albeit just for one day. Photo from an exhibition at Taipei's National Center of Photography and Images, showing an African trainee and and Taiwanese trainer in the 1960s in Taiwan. Photo by Filip Noubel, used with permission. Today, Taiwan maintains full diplomatic relations only with thekingdom of Eswatini on the Africa...
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Feature image designed using Canva Pro elements. By Matt Bishop, Tumasie Blair, Simona Marinescu, and Emily Wilkinson On May 27, the governments of the small island developing states known collectively as SIDS and their international partners will meet in Antigua and Barbuda. The goal of the meeting is to agree on the fourth decennial UN programme of action dedicated to their “special case for sustainable development,” under the tagline “charting the course toward resilient prosperity.” Known as “SIDS4” to insiders, the summit communiqué will agree on a framework for the Antigua and Barbuda Ag...
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The Mulnicherra Estate is the oldest tea garden in South Asia. Image.JPG) via Wikipedia by Shahnoor Habib Munmun. CC BY 3.0. In 2023, Bangladesh achieved a milestone in tea production, with production surpassing 102.9 million kilograms for the first time. This marks the first time tea production exceeded 100 million kilograms in the country since British colonials introduced experimental tea cultivation in this region in 1840. The majority of the tea produced is used domestically, indicating Bangladesh's profound love for tea. The love affair between Bangladeshis and tea is celebrated often. T...
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Feature image via Canva Pro. By Neil Marks This story was originally published by NewsRoom and recently won the award for Best Climate Justice Story in Climate Tracker's inaugural Caribbean Climate Justice Journalism Awards. A version of the story is published below with permission. After years of campaigning by Guyana and other forest-rich nations, there is finally a mechanism to value the carbon dioxide stored in trees and to pay countries which have kept their forests standing. Guyana is the first country to benefit and is set to receive hundreds of millions of United States dollars. But so...
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Protestors in Aruba demonstrating against the island's environmental crisis. Photo courtesy of the ‘No More Hotels’ movement, used with permission. The Caribbean, with a rich and diverse history shaped by its Indigenous inhabitants, European colonisation, and strategic geographic location, is known by many in the developed world as simply a vacation spot. With white beaches and blue waters, this is where the privileged come to relax and unwind, usually without any care for the local population and its culture, but there is much more to the people and its environment than sprawling all-inclusiv...
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Image by the author via Nepali Times. Used with permission. This story was originally published by Durga Rana Magar in Nepali Times. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Like many Nepalis, Surendra Dhami left his home village in Darchula District in the Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal for Malaysia in the hope of improving his family’s quality of life. He returned in a few months because the work and pay were not what he had been promised by the recruiter. But there were no jobs in Darchula, and farming in the rugged, arid mountains would not...
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