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The German police shut down a pro-Palestinian conference in Berlin, citing the risk that one of the speakers invited might make anti-Semitic comments or incite violence. Screenshot from a New York Times video. Fair use. This article was originally published in the New Arab on April 16, 2024. It was written by Dima Hamdan, a Palestinian journalist based in Berlin. She is the manager of the Marie Colvin Journalists’ Network. The article is republished in Global Voices as part of a content partnership agreement. It was supposed to be a three-day major event where grassroots activists and leading ...
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Tons of CHP supporters took to the streets after their surprise victory in Turkey's election. Collage by Arzu Geybullayeva Turkey's local elections which took place on March 31, will go down in history as one of its most surprising. Turkey's demoralized opposition, namely the Republican People's Party (CHP), dominated in what many pundits described as the ruling Justice and Development Party's worst defeat of its 22-year existence. For the first time since 1977, the CHP took more votes nationwide. In his televised address afterward, the CHP leader Özgür Özel called the elections “historic” as ...
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Image from Miao Poya's Facebook. Used with permission. The presidential and parliamentary elections in Taiwan on January 13, 2024, ended with the pro-Taiwan autonomy Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) winning the presidential election. However, it only obtained 46 percent of the seats in the parliament and failed to retain its legislative majority. On the other hand, the Kuomintang (KMT) won 47 percent, and the emerging People's Party of Taiwan (PPT) won up to 7 percent of the parliamentary seats. The rise of the so-called third party (i.e., political parties other than the longstanding DPP an...
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Feature image of malnourished puppy via Canva Pro. In April 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the black dog of Embacadere, a town on the outskirts of Trinidad’s southern city of San Fernando, pierced the hearts and minds of Trinidad and Tobago social media users after a video of three men brutally performing its hanging emerged on Facebook. Outrage was swift and widespread, with many activists calling for harsh punishment over what they felt was a needlessly cruel and despicable act. It was not, however, the only one. The websites and social media channels of any local animal N...
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Emily, a video journalist / Photo from The Irrawaddy. Used with permission. This article was originally published in The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar. This edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Journalists, like all Myanmar citizens, have faced the harsh consequences of dictatorship since the military unlawfully seized power in 2021. Following the coup, the junta targeted independent news outlets by arresting, jailing, and even killing journalists on fabricated charges. However, independent news outlets and journalists are s...
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The Perito Moreno glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina. Photo by Amanderson2 on Flickr. CC BY 2.0 DEED. This article was written by David Feliba and published in Climate Home News on February 13, 2024. An edited version is republished by Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. Argentina’s new free-market president Javier Milei is pushing for a rollback in environmental regulation, endangering forests and glaciers. Milei, who has called climate change a “socialist lie,” has tried to ease restrictions on mining near glaciers and remove protections for forests. But the mov...
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Arzu Geybullayeva On March 8, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the upcoming municipal election scheduled for March 31 would be his last. Although he is not running himself, the President has been campaigning for his party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), ahead of the local elections, with eyes set on winning back major cities, including Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir. All three are currently run by the opposition Republican People Party (CHP). So why make the announcement in the first place when he was re-elected as the country's president in a contested election in May 2023 with four...
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Ruea, 65, became homeless about losing her business during the pandemic. Photo and caption by Prachatai. Used with permission. This article by Sarah Eichstadt was originally published by Prachatai, an independent news site in Thailand. An edited version has been republished by Global Voices under a partner content-sharing agreement. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Bangkok's homeless population has been rising. Many of these newly unhoused people are elderly. Advocates and experts now say raising the elderly pension is one solution to this growing crisis. Meanwhile, imposing a wealth tax could hel...
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Brazilian journalist Amanda Lima. Photo: Personal archive, used with permission. On February 3, Amanda Lima published a story in the Portuguese daily Diário de Notícias about two protests that took place on the same day in Lisbon, but with very different agendas. While at Largo do Intendente, people celebrated different cultures with music, cuisine, and signs that read “Migrants welcome,” less than one kilometer away, at Largo de Camões, a far-right nationalist group held signs declaring “Portugal for Portuguese people,” hailing historic dictator Salazar and protesting against what they called...
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Tribal violence has escalated last week in Papua New Guinea. Screenshot from YouTube video of ABC News In-depth. Fair use. Clashes between several tribes in the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea led to at least 50 deaths and displaced numerous highland communities. The government said that the February 18 massacre was the country’s worst tribal violence on record. The police said they retrieved 50 bodies on February 19 in Enga province, but the death toll could be higher based on the reports and testimonies of local leaders. The long-running feud between the Sikin and Kaikin tribes and the Am...
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