This story is part of Global Voices’ May 2026 Spotlight, “Global crisis, local solutions.” This series will offer stories of resistance and successful climate action, insight into how communities in ...

Carmen Navas’s passing reveals alleged institutional coverups, deepening concerns about repression, impunity, and Venezuela’s ongoing democratic collapse.

This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. The partition of British India, under the Indian Independence Act of 1947, designated ...

Gaza's schools became displacement shelters. Months later, hundreds of families share a single space with no doors, no corners, and no moments alone.

“On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters and on the wrapping of a cigarette packet — everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, ...

In a patch of green on Damascus's edge, volunteers and farmers are bringing back the local seeds that war and climate crisis nearly erased.

This piece by Samy Marwan Mobayed was first published by Raseef22, an Arabic media platform, on March 21, 2023. An edited version is republished here, under a content-sharing agreement. March 21 marks ...

In 2024, a 28-year-old maize farmer in Siaya County, western Kenya, walked into a small public clinic complaining of a fever. Ten years ago, he would have waited days — sometimes weeks — for a malaria ...

Since gaining independence from the UK in October 1962, Ugandan women have played a critical role in shaping politics and governance throughout the country. From Joyce Mpanga, who served as Minister ...

Mere repetition of information increases perceptions of consensus. People judge repeated claims as more widely believed, ...

Nature-based solutions led by Indigenous and local communities help address climate change impacts by restoring ecosystems, ...