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When free speech has a price: Youth voices in Mozambique
For Mozambican youth, freedom of expression exists in law, but speaking out can come with a cost. Music became a powerful space for criticism and resistance.
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Trump’s ‘Agreements on Reciprocal Trade’ (ARTs) threaten equitable access to the internet in Global South (opens the publisher's site)
The controversial reciprocal trade agreements (ARTs) gives the U.S. a great deal of power, which could adversely affect digital connectivity, increase digital divides, and reduce economic growth in signatory countries.
Alibaba sues Pentagon to denounce being classified as a Chinese military affiliate (opens the publisher's site)
DoD’s public document describes Alibaba as indirectly affiliated with China State Council's supervision body, and a “military-civil fusion contributor to the Chinese defense industrial base”.
Too young to run, old enough to protest: West Africa’s unfinished democratic bargain (opens the publisher's site)
Young people are old enough to vote and old enough to protest but are often told they need experience before they can hold political office.
How a farmers’ protest in Bucharest was inflated online, then hijacked (opens the publisher's site)
Over 1,180 Facebook posts and 100 TikTok videos analyzed showed how a genuine farmers’ protest was inflated by clusters of accounts sharing identical messages, then folded into anti-government, anti-EU and pro-Kremlin narratives.
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How Cambodia’s law on ‘freedom parks’ curtailed people’s right to protest (opens the publisher's site)
"It has not only been used to confine peaceful gatherings and demonstrations to Freedom Park, but increasingly, the very use of Freedom Park has been restricted and denied."
West-to-east energy, east-to-west computing: The Uyghur costs of China’s digital order (opens the publisher's site)
Beijing is carrying an older geography of extraction into the AI era, turning Uyghur land, energy and labour into computing power while remaining silent about coercion and surveillance.
In Brazil’s capital, residents grow their own heat-fighting solutions (opens the publisher's site)
Life in the favelas surrounding Brazil’s capital brings the health risks of extreme heat — a symptom of the global inequities of green space access
Who can speak on behalf of the people? The new frontiers of protest in the Sahel (opens the publisher's site)
In central Sahel's countries military juntas claim to restore popular sovereignty. Political parties are dissolved in all three countries, over a thousand civil society organizations have been suspended.
Equating protest with terrorism: A narrative against dissent (opens the publisher's site)
In this month's edition, we dive deep into a narrative used by leaders in the United States and other countries to delegitimize protests.
‘We cannot take it anymore’: Haiti’s informal vendors protest over gang warfare (opens the publisher's site)
From early August and continuing through September, dozens of informal vendors who used to ply their trade have been protesting in the hope of getting the Haitian government’s support.
Support Global Voices’ Spotlight: Big Tech and Authoritarianism (opens the publisher's site)
With these stories, we aim to pull back the camouflage that Big Tech uses to obscure their connection with oppressive governments, and to highlight cases of technological authoritarianism — and resistance — around the world.