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Indonesian military forces during a parade in 2019. Image via Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0 DEED. The original version of this post was written by Girard Lopez and published in New Bloom on April 16, 2023. The following edited version is published on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. In early March 2024, the Indonesian internet and its online periphery would be rocked by a shocking video: A Papuan native seemingly detained in a bucket of water and being punched excessively by what appears to be Indonesian military forces. Then, another soldier is seen mercilessly slashing the P...
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Screenshot from Indigenous Bridges YouTube channel. As a country that experienced successive waves of colonization against a diverse Indigenous population, Taiwan is a multilingual society, but power relations among languages are far from equal. Originally inhabited by Austronesian tribes, of whom 16 are recognized today, Taiwan initially spoke Formosan languages, part of the Austronesian family. Successive Dutch, Spanish), and Japanese) colonization imposed other languages. Massive migration from mainland China in the 17th century brought Min Chinese languages, followed by Mandarin Chinese af...
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Screenshot from YouTube video, '63yrs Oluman marries 12 years Kid in Ghana, People are Furious!’ by ONE GHANA TV. Fair use. On Saturday, March 30, videos of the marriage ceremony between 16-year-old Naa Okromo and 63-year-old traditional priest Nuumo Borketey Laweh Tsuru XXXIII circulated on social media, sparking debates and outrage among Ghanaians. Many Ghanaians who voiced their concerns on social media expressed distress about this marriage, saying that it infringed on the rights of the young girl. One user on YouTube commented: They say that marriage under 18yrs is prohibited. Then arrest...
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Mohammed at the site of his destroyed lab in May 2021. It was bombed in an Israeli strike, destroying with it his years of patient work in medical innovations. Photo provided by Mohammed, used with permission. I met Mohammad in 2018 while interning at a digital fabrication lab in Amman, Jordan. It was late afternoon, and the lab was almost deserted. Two men were playfully experimenting with the laser cutter, trying to figure out how it worked while sharing a moment of fun. Intrigued, I approached them to see if they needed any help figuring it out. They seemed to have navigated their way aroun...
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Alex Kisioi tuned to Sogoot FM radio and seated under a tree, meters away from Mariashoni centre, Molo Nakuru County, Kenya. Photo by Minority Africa, used with permission. This story was originally published by Minority Africa and an edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing partnership agreement. Standing out within the Mau Forest complex, in a forested area approximately 210 kilometers (130 miles) west of Nairobi, Kenya, is an over-18-meter (60-foot) steel radio mast with an aviation light on top. Inching closer, a wooden fence intertwined with wire mesh se...
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The author's four-generation land and home were destroyed by Israeli F16 rockets in January, reducing it to rubble. Photo provided by the author, used with permission. On January 12, a message arrived from my sister in Gaza, bearing the devastating news: our parents’ home, a sanctuary of memories, had been razed by Israeli F16 rockets, reducing our beloved home to rubble. This is no ordinary house. Within its walls, I took my first uncertain steps, and my laughter and tears echoed through its very foundations. It was sacred ground, where I grew up alongside my beloved siblings, cocooned in a w...
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Illustration by Minority Africa, used with permission. This story was originally published by Minority Africa, and this edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing partnership agreement. A stroll through the Mukogodo Forest in Laikipia County, Kenya’s largest national and dry forest reserve covering a landmass of over 30,000 hectares, reveals a sight: metallic tags adorning the trees, each bearing two words. One word is in English, while the other is its translation into Yaakunte, the language of the Indigenous Yaaku people. The tags, for example, one with the E...
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Graffiti paintings on the Israeli West Bank barrier by Banksy near Qalandia – July 2005. Photo by Szater on Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Note: This post contains graphic imagery in the links, which may be disturbing to some readers. During my childhood living in Jerusalem and the West Bank, I absorbed the lessons taught in elementary school that painted a picture of justice prevailing in the universe. However, my experiences at the Qalandia checkpoint, where Israeli soldiers treated Palestinian children and adults going to school and work with hostility, made me question these teachings. ...
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Jawahir carving loro and silauto from stones. Image by the author. The ‘Pattharkatta’ in the western Terai region of Nepal represents an endangered community of people who have an ancestral occupation of cutting stones. In Nepal, they are considered ‘untouchables’ and are subject to social segregation and discrimination. For generations, Pattharkattas have been making stone tools for Nepali households. However, being an outcast with a low population, they faced years of marginalisation and a constant struggle for recognition. And the study of their present socio-economic conditions is often no...
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This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. Welcome back to Undertones, where we study narratives from around the world. Since the end of 2023, the Civic Media Observatory has started a new project focusing on data governance. But we still have some important stories from our Community Observatory to share. One of them comes from our researcher from Gaza, who's now living abroad but has helped us make sense of the conflict since it started. In December, we published an analysis of critical narratives coming from Israel. This t...
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