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Kiwi road sign. Photo used with permission. All the original photos and videos were taken by Heather Milton or the author during their 2024 travels. Our recent six-week trip to Aotearoa/New Zealand in late summer and early autumn 2024 presented the ideal opportunity to experience its amazing environment. We hadn't “crossed the ditch” (the Australasian slang for the Tasman Sea) for a holiday since 1985. The Land of the Long White Cloud was created by volcanoes and carved by glaciers. Before the arrival of humans, its flora and fauna evolved in isolation from the rest of the world, and there wer...
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Woman with henna-painted hands in Sudan, February 11, 2005. Photo by Steve Evans on Flickr(CC BY 2.0.) This article was written by Weam Al-Bashir and was originally published on Raseef22 on March 19, 2024. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. I recently found a photograph of me as a baby, and on the back, scribbled in my father’s handwriting, were the words: “Our daughter is blue.” He had intended to send it to his siblings in Sudan with one of the pilgrims returning from Mecca, along with a letter announcing the arrival of his new “blue” ba...
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Bicentina Auma, chairperson of a small farmer's co-operative in Northern Uganda, harvesting finger millet. Image.jpg) by DFID – UK Department for International Development from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0 DEED). This story was written by Maria Andrea Nardi and originally published by Peace News Network, and an edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. In recent years, there has been a “crackdown” against environmental defenders across Uganda. Journalists, students, farmers, and rural dwellers are defending the natural environment, protesting and mo...
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A poster that a youthful Abubaker Abed made in support of the Chelsea football club. Photo by Abubaker Abed, used with permission. This story, written by Abubaker Abed, was originally published by We Are Not Numbers on February 8, 2024. It was updated and revised after an interview on WhatsApp between the author and Global Voices on March 12, 2024. It is published here as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. When the Chelsea football club chose sides with Israel in its war on Gaza, it broke the heart of a young Gazan fan. We support killing Abubaker and every Palestinian Che...
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