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Global Voices has been leading the conversation on citizen media reporting since 2005. We curate, verify and translate trending news and stories you might be missing on the Internet, from blogs, independent press and social media in 167 countries. Many of the world's most interesting and important stories aren't in just one place. Sometimes they’re scattered in bits and pieces across the Internet, in blog posts and tweets, and in multiple languages. These are the stories we accurately report on Global Voices—and translate into more than 35 languages.
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A child wears a face mask
COVID-19
Semi-quarantined: Living with the coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong
Russian proposal
In Russia, individuals can now be branded ‘foreign agents’
A man stands outside next to a tent.
Conflict & Justice
Videoblogging shaman walks to Moscow to ‘exorcise’ Putin
Two medical staff wear face masks at hospital.
Health & Medicine
DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to neighboring Uganda, activating rapid preparedness response
Venezuela President Maduro in blue suit holds his hands out and speaks at news conference.
Global Politics
Venezuelans fear ‘Fatherland Card’ may be a new form of social control
Three girls peer over the pew in church in China.
Religion
China’s new anti-Christmas campaign leaves citizens celebrating in secret
A woman walks past tombstones in the Alley of Martyrs memorial cemetery in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 8, 2012.
Azerbaijani mothers demand promised compensation for their fallen sons
Twitter bird with Chinese flag colors in a cage.
Media
Crackdown in Beijing: ‘Using Twitter is more dangerous than street demonstrations’
A woman holds a sign in Russian that says "I'm against censorship."
Technology
New internet laws in Russia — and US tech giants’ acquiescence — spell trouble for dissenting voices
A webcomic with two panels depicts a woman telling a story.
Justice
An Indonesian defamation law landed this teacher 6 months in jail for documenting her abuser
Sign at a guesthouse reads "there is space" in Swahili
Sexuality
Tanzania’s stance on homosexuality points to an increasingly repressive political agenda
Jair Bolsonaro pictured with his mouth.
Global Politics
Will fake news carry Brazil’s favored far-right candidate to victory?
A blurry image of a car chase overlaid with Japanese writing.
Arts, Culture & Media
Japanese TV program turns migrant raids and deportations into entertainment
Rhinoceros on field with gentle sunlight behind him
Environment
Can a controversial in-vitro fertilization process save the northern white rhino?
Lima Peru construction
Culture
This construction site in Peru has banned catcalling women
Young girl holding sign in front of crowd, "I want to hug my dad"
Justice
A crowdsourced database provides a glimpse of what traveling from Iran to the US is like right now
Two people in masks in front of three portraits of Putin, Le Pen and Trump
Global Politics
A youth movement will be partying this Friday to ‘Make America Great Again’ — in Russia
Professeur Jean-Marie Servant
Culture
In Niger and worldwide, legendary surgeon and humanitarian Jean-Marie Servant is mourned
Syria Aleppo bus burning
Media
Syria’s war may be the most documented ever. And yet, we know so little.
Collage of self portraits in black and white
Justice
After a well-known artist’s tragic death, Taiwan’s LGBT community demands marriage equality
Delfín Quishpe
Culture
Why is indigenous singer Delfín Quishpe such a polarizing figure in Latin America?
A panel of an illustration about a woman being deported to Czech Republic
Justice
Letters are a lifeline for people in immigration detention. Here’s a project that brings those words to life
Screenshot of man beating another man, who is on the ground
Conflict
New footage shows diamond diggers being tortured with a machete in Angola
Syrian-Galician journalist and activist Leila Nachawati Rego.
Culture
A novel about the ‘anonymous people who every day live, love, resist and struggle’ for Syria
Women forced to walk nude through the streets en route to a police station. “Activists” captured them for practicing prostitution.
Justice
‘Activists’ attack St. Petersburg bordellos, forcing women to march nude to police
South Sudan journalist
Conflict
South Sudan is a dangerous place to work as a journalist
Bangladesh Bloggers
Justice
Bloggers under fire: The fatal consequences of free thinking in Bangladesh
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Belief
Russia gets its very first Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
crowd of protesters with umbrellas and signs
Justice
Your guide to understanding Brazil’s political crisis
Aboriginal women from the remote Central Australian community of Ampilatwatja performing at a public ceremony in 2010 to protest against the Northern Territory intervention.
Culture
‘Nude’ photos of Australian Aboriginal women trigger Facebook account suspensions
Children Versus Wizards
Media
Russia’s anti-Semitic, anti-Harry Potter children’s tale
Crimean Tatar singer Susana Jamaladinova, known as Jamala, performs during the Ukrainian national qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest outside Kiev, Ukraine, February 21, 2016.
Media
Ukraine’s Eurovision 2016 entry is about Stalin’s repression, and Russia isn’t thrilled
Nicolás Maduro
Global Politics
Venezuela’s president finally discovers Facebook, constituents flood his profile
A taxi in a suburb of Lima
Lifestyle
Public transport? That’s something to protest outside Peru’s capital
Screenshot from the music video for Leningrad’s new song “Display Exhibit” (“Exponat”). YouTube.
Arts
Why is a Russian art museum granting free admission to women wearing 4-Inch stilettos?
The controversial photo of Fran Rivera bullfighting while holding his daughter in his arms. Published by eldiario.es
Culture
Spaniards fired up over photo of bullfighter with a baby in his arms
My ASA blog 2
Conflict
The Nazi plan to relocate Jews to Madagascar, one of World War II’s forgotten ‘what ifs’
Panama hats.
Culture
Why we’ve been calling the Panama Hat by the wrong name for a century
Protest in Guba, Azerbaijan.
Economics
In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people protest. The government responds with arrests.
Russian State Duma lower house of parliament speaker Sergei Naryshkin speaks to the media in November, 2015
Global Politics
Study finds that one in nine Russian Duma deputies are academic phonies
Peruvian papas
Food
The Martian was right. NASA Is studying Peruvian potatoes for farming on Mars.
A wall was transformed into a mural echoing the call of human rights groups to stop the militarization of Lumad schools.
Arts
This group exposes social woes and promotes Philippine culture through street art
Front-page article on missing Chinese bookseller
Conflict
Is China kidnapping Hong Kong residents?
The real Everest as depicted in “20110810 North Face of Everest Tibet China Panoramic”
Media
The star of the new movie ‘Everest’ is actually a mountain in Kazakhstan, sort of
Image mash-up combining WhatsApp logo and Brazilian flag.
Business
WhatsApp is back on in Brazil. But why was it blocked in the first place?
Sebastian Cevallos
Conflict
Tweets land political leader a jail term
Drones help identify objects on Laos's historic Plain of Jars
Conflict
Drones allow access to a historic site in Laos that American bombs made off-limits
BRAZIL 5
Conflict
Who’s afraid of Simone de Beauvoir? How a national exam had millions of Brazilians talking about gender.
How the attacks in Paris and Beirut affect us all
Conflict
‘The streets of Paris are as familiar to me as the streets of Beirut’
Peking University in Beijing, November 26, 2014.
Education
China has a few walls to climb if it wants world-class universities
A woman carries a baby as she talks with other women at a food distribution in Minkaman, South Sudan.
Conflict
Where’s the outrage over mass rape in war-torn South Sudan?
Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain listens to a journalist's question as he attends a media conference ahead of the Brazilian F1 Grand Prix in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 12, 2015.
Culture
How do you say ‘Bro’ in Latin America?
"Land Grab" by Federico Boyd Sulapas Dominguez
Arts
Colonizers. Exploiters. Art that portrays how people responded.
leaf flag
Global Politics
Trinidad and Tobago’s oddly overlooked — and totally legal — fix for marijuana
relatives of missing students
Global Politics
Three Mexicans who refuse to stay silent on injustice
throne
Global Politics
Unseated: Citizens stop lawmakers from buying lavish new seats
Members of the Zone 9 blogging collective in December, 2012
Justice
Ethiopia’s Zone 9 bloggers acquitted of terror charges
Author Marlon James
Books
The judges for this book prize came to a unanimous decision in under two hours
Screenshot of the front page of Information
Global Politics
Refugees take over Danish daily newspaper for a day
chinese protesters
Health
Chinese women spend their holiday protesting botched cosmetic surgery in South Korea