Conservation has become a tool for “green grabbing”: The taking of community land in the name of environmental protection while opening space for tourism, hunting, and investment interests.
Durable ecosystems of support are not a supplement to legal strategy; they are the strategy, from community to clinic to court and back again.
Without a legal identity, an individual is stripped of basic human rights, barred from formal education, blocked from healthcare, denied basic state services and rights, and vulnerable to institutional exploitation.
Join us on August 4th to explore how narratives about Indigenous Right are being discussed and framed in traditional and online media.
In the past, state repression was largely contained within a country's own frontiers. Today, autocrats are cooperating across borders, using digital surveillance.
People whose immediate family had been killed by al-Shabaab were measurably less willing to accept defectors, a reminder that reconciliation has to compete with real grief and fear.
In Cameroon, many young people combine university studies, part-time jobs, and social media content creation, turning their online presence into a valuable source of income while diversifying their earning opportunities.
Our democracies are stronger when everyone, regardless of their gender, can fully participate and assert their place in politics.
In this collaborative article, Global Voices dives into non-binary gender representation traditions from around the world, spanning China, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and more.
In this edition, we uncover a narrative that portrays anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa as a form of resistance to colonialism.
Despite comprising 50 percent of the population, women hold just 4.5 percent of seats in the National Assembly. Nigeria consistently ranks near the bottom globally and in Africa on women’s parliamentary representation.
Passing the anti-LGBTQ+ bill days after receiving global acclaim for human rights advocacy would expose Ghana’s rank hypocrisy, potentially undermining the very reparations dialogue the government claims to prioritize.
We have experiences, inherited knowledge, and approaches that escape the comprehension of the global north, and the more we hear each other’s stories, the better chances we have of surviving the climate crisis.
The digital landscape is becoming increasingly dangerous for vulnerable groups. Technology-facilitated gender-based violence is a growing epidemic that most legal frameworks fail to address adequately.
As civic space shrinks across Africa, one film festival is betting that cinema can do what reports and protests sometimes cannot, hold power to account.
Faced with rapid urbanization, fragile waste management systems, youth unemployment and growing climate vulnerability, artists, activists, musicians, and community entrepreneurs in Mozambique develop local responses to address an environmental crisis.
In this edition of Undertones, we explore a narrative calling for women to play a central role in climate-related decision-making in Uganda.
According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, in May 2026, Somalia is facing one of the worst food crises in its history.
The coup d'état on July 26, 2023, which ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, confirmed the Nigeriens’ resolve to sever all ties with France.
A March 2026 study by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the African Digital Rights Network found that 11 African governments had collectively spent more than USD 2 billion on AI-powered surveillance systems.
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