Nepal’s social protection system supports vulnerable communities, yet gaps remain. Combining cash allowances with livelihood programs, inclusive policies, and improved governance may strengthen long-term resilience, equity, and Indigenous self-determination.
The data-labelling industry relies heavily on workers in Kenya and Nigeria to annotate what AI systems learn. Those same workers rarely see their languages reflected in the systems they help train.
There is a growing demand within civil society for the right to participate in legislative decisions and the expansion of rights.
The success of states of emergency are not often assessed by how such measures intersect with social dynamics — which in turn shape concepts of masculinity insecurity, and youths’ lived experience.
Telegram is blocked, VPNs are being chased after, but Putin suddenly talks about a national AI again.
Taukeer Alam, a writer of Van Gujjari, a vulnerable dialect with low documentation, shares the need for audio-visual documentation and safeguards to protect against AI and other exploitations
With a historic turn-out of 79.5 percent, Hungary's election showed that democratic institutions can work. It was also a historic election in terms of the opposition’s margin of victory.
The relationship between governments and digital platforms is never simple. Governments can introduce regulations, but digital platforms also possess enormous power through the technologies, algorithms, and global information infrastructure they control.
“Too often, conversations about AI remain trapped between denunciation and celebration, as if the only options are total refusal or uncritical embrace.”
Every month, Global Voices will be choosing an urgent theme to explore in depth across all our regions. In May we are looking at the actions people are taking to fight the climate crisis.
On paper, many of these technologies are described as civilian. In practice, the line between civilian and military use is almost always blurred, particularly in authoritarian contexts and conflict zones.
Generative AI does not write, design or paint: it generates statistically closest patterns; these are probabilistic automation systems, which make them fundamentally different from human cognition or creativity.
On Chinese social media, eating disorders are reframed as discipline and beauty, sustained by coded language, visual culture, and online communities.
The series aims to re-emphasise the importance of knowledge sharing among people, as has been done for decades.
Climate change negatively impacts human, animal, and plant species. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), this crisis is leading beehives, which are vital to food security, to run dry.
As shown in an interactive map of Prague, listing historical figures and places associated with this community, LGBTQ+ people have always been part of Czech culture.
Igor Bezinović’s film portrays the “pioneer” of Italian fascism, Gabriele D’Annunzio, through a critical lens, as befits the role model for the fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
As Iran-Israel-US tensions escalated into conflict and supply chains disrupted, Bangladesh is facing an energy crisis, heavily exposed by its reliance on imports, which supply about 95 percent of its national energy needs.
The Azerbaijani media is softening the regime’s harsh authoritarian practices by contrasting them with images of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s family conducting familial, religious and charitable activities.
When AI-generated harassment is treated as “engaging content,” it gets amplified, and women, especially women from the Global majority, become collateral damage.
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