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Displaced persons at the Darfur border in Sudan. Screenshot from theFrance24 YouTube Channel For the victims of Sudan’s civil war, a humanitarian crisis and human rights violations have become part of their everyday lives. In the Republic of Sudan, there is an ongoing civil war between two opposing military factions: the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (FSR) under General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemeti. This war stems from the country’s dark past and chaotic governance under former president Omar al-Bashir from 1989 to ...
Global Voices
A new global study has found that dissatisfaction with democracy is deepening in parts of Europe, where governments are not living up to the democratic expectations of their citizens. The Democracy Perception Index (DPI) is the biggest global temperature test of democracy, with almost 63,000 people from 53 countries, including 15 members of the European Union, surveyed between February and April this year. While a majority of EU citizens (57%) consider their home countries to be democratic, in three member states - France, Greece and Hungary - a majority now think they no longer live in free d...
Euronews (English)
By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — Fear among Indonesia’s ruling class of losing control of natural resources to Indigenous people is why the country’s parliament continues to delay passing a long-awaited bill on Indigenous rights, according to activists. The bill was proposed in 2012 and has been placed on parliament’s list of national priority legislation every year since 2014, but never passed since. A lawmaker on the legislation committee discussing the bill now says that’s because it keeps being blocked by two of the biggest parties in parliament. Luluk Nur Hamidah said her committee had as ...
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Alicia Bowen-McCulskie, founder and executive director of Circle of Care Jamaica. Photo by Bokeh Clicks Fotos, used with permission. “Don’t tell your mother because she will beat you.” Not only did those words stay with Alicia Bowen-McCulskie, the founder and executive director of Circle of Care Jamaica, from the age of five; they also impacted how she has lived her life. The threat had come from her first abuser who, by instilling fear in his victim, secured a lifetime of secrecy and ultimately, his own protection. The weight of the secret, however, scarred Bowen-McCulskie until 2022, when sh...
Global Voices
Indigenous peoples protest and camp in Brasilia, Brazil, April 2024. Photo by Kamikia/Apib, used with permission. A group of Indigenous peoples from the south of Brazil traveled by bus to the capital, Brasília, and camped in front of federal government buildings to pressure for the demarcation of Indigenous territories. Among them, there were representatives of ethnicities such as Kaingang, Guarani, Xetá, and Xokleng. The president was Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the year was 2004, the second of his first term. Twenty years later, the group that started out with around 60 people had grown t...
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Agbéyomé Kodjo; Screenshot from the Tv5monde YouTube Channel It has become increasingly common for opponents of the Togolese regime to live out their lives in exile. That’s to say, in hiding far from home until their death for political reasons. The latest of these was Agbéyomé Kodjo, who died in Ghana on March 3, 2024. Although there are no exact figures for the number of Togolese citizens living in exile, a few leading names stand out. In March 2021, political activist and opponent of President Faure Gnassingbé‘s regime, Foussena Djagba, died in Ghana following a short illness. On January 9,...
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Collage by Giovana Fleck using disability rights poster at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, used with permission, and a photo of Marijeta Mojasevic, courtesy Mojasevic. This article, written by Clarisse Sih and Bibbi Abruzzini, was part of the#MarchWithUs campaign — one full month of stories from gender justice activists worldwide. Waking up scared for life because of a neurological problem is a situation nobody ever wishes to find themselves in. Marijeta Mojasevic certainly never thought she could suffer a stroke, and even if, definitely not at 17 years old. Mojasevic was ...
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Vice President Delcy Rodríguez introducing the Law Against Fascism in the National Assembly of Venezuela on April 2, 2024. Photo by The National Assembly of Venezuela. Open License. Last Tuesday, April 2, from the podium of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez presented, on behalf of Nicolás Maduro, a proposed Law against Fascism that hides in its 30 articles the total legalization of censorship, repression, and the curtailment of the right to protest. The law is considered a legal strategy to minimize the last freedoms of citizens in the face of the presidential el...
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This text, written by Lucas Pedretti and edited by Thiago Domenici, was originally published on Agência Pública's website on March 27, 2024. An edited version is republished on Global Voices under a partnership agreement. In the early days of March 1985, shortly before José Sarney assumed the presidency, the National Information Service (SNI) produced a secret study, which compared the performance of intelligence agencies in democracies and in totalitarian regimes, with the title “Information in democratic regimes.” In its assessment, employing “certain methods” in democracies could represe...
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Survivors of cyber slavery in South Asia have spoken out about the horrific conditions they endured while allegedly being forced to operate online scams from behind barbed wire fences in prison-like buildings. Trafficked by Chinese gangs, Pakistans are forced to scam at least five Americans daily, facing beatings and starvation if they failed - a horrific reality that's recently been revealed by a recent U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report. The report showed a concerning trend: One in four Americans has lost money to scams, with a median individual loss of $500. Lured by social media ad...
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