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Netizens from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand brew ‘Milk Tea Alliance’ against Chinese speech police
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The most critical lesson we've learned from the #COVID19 outbreak is the importance of #freespeech "There is pressure in Hong Kong to silence discussion of the disease and punish doctors who are raising the alarm about its origins"
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Hong Kong protesters make online game their new home during pandemic
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A Popular Japanese Cosmetic Surgeon Is Called Out for Admiring Nazism "remains unapologetic"
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"The fire spreads. And if we burn, you burn with us." #DictatorshipNeverAgain #Paraguay
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Tabish Aijaz, a young medical student from Anantnag district in #Kashmir , is using her natural ability to paint to beat the stress caused by exams and the COVID 19 pandemic. #Arts
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Since mid June, no supplies are being allowed past Azerbaijani checkpoint. #Azerbaijan has also blocked International Red Cross vehicles from entering the region citing "contraband" prevention measures. #Armenia
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#Uganda : #COVID -19 restrictions were used as an excuse to target opposition politicians like @HEBobiwine , by limiting crowds and rallies on their campaign trail. @sandraaceng @cipesa @Smith_JeffreyT
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Since its inception in 1999, the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light minority has been subjected to systematic oppressed based on a belief that they are heretics.
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We join #LoveBeyondFlags in thanking Americans who stood up for the seven countries blocked from entering the US by the new travel ban
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Job Amupanda, university teacher and leader of the Affirmative Repositioning movement went from advocating for land reform to being elected as mayor of #Namibia 's capital city, Windhoek. @lisavrnka
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Documentary Explores What It's Like to Be Black in Japan http://t.co/wtMEy4JB4T http://t.co/d1TTEmYsHv
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Long-time @globalvoices and @advox friend @alaa is out of jail in #Egypt after five long years behind bars. #freealaa #welcomehomealaa
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This Young Woman Footballer Is More Popular Than Messi in Her Remote Village in Nepal http://t.co/uzGVVZPaWN http://t.co/WwkIuUk7Qt
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Our contributor @LuisCarlos has been detained by Nicolas Maduro’s security forces and we don’t know his whereabouts. He is a well known journalist who has never been shy of speaking truth to power. #D óndeEstáLuisCarlos #Venezuela
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We at Global Voices are very happy to welcome @Nanjala1 as our new @advox Director, focusing on tech and rights around the world.
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Egypt Sentences 529 Muslim Brotherhood Supporters to Death http://t.co/fZBk4zGPxU http://t.co/1azk7MCEGa
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Five Years on, Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi's Family Repeats Call for His Release "5 years too many"
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Israa Al-Ghomgham, a Saudi woman facing the death penalty for peaceful protest "raises the alarm about the fate of dozens of activists who are currently detained without charge or trial "
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Detention of Gaspard Glanz is a sign of France’s increasingly authoritarian treatment of journalists "threatened with jail sentence, the goal is obviously to uncover the source of their information"
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Today! Tweet in Your #MotherLanguage to Celebrate Linguistic Diversity Online http://t.co/YzahuN7Sn3 http://t.co/6mUntJoiKh
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It's Not a Food Truck. It's a Mobile Kitchen Feeding Refugees Around Europe. @PRI
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Afghan Five-Year-Old Murtaza Ready to Meet Argentine Football Star Messi @najibamadadi
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Free the Zone 9 bloggers… because blogging is not a crime! http://t.co/gMl4Zuc9KY #FreeZone9Bloggers http://t.co/1cAagR0sGp
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Global Voices call for stories about #Ukraine Global Voices is piloting a project of paid and commissioned stories about Ukraine by Ukrainians regardless of current location. Stories can be pitched and written in Ukrainian, English or Russian.
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"Anyone joining #illridewithyou is incredibly inspiring, creating a path to peace for all of us." http://t.co/UErvagDvk9
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Heavy Snowfall Brings Playtime to Tokyo http://t.co/GGwj3oAuym photos of amazing sculptures http://t.co/AKRcZvblgo http://t.co/UsYKiJh2EV
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Tragedy in Chapel Hill: “If the Murderer was Muslim the Story would have been Different” http://t.co/cPB7bMVMna http://t.co/GxHM55sMHX
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Georgia’s ‘Sex Wikileaks’ Revives Fear of Govt Snooping "Everything you do in your bedroom can be used against you"
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Activists Discover Evidence of St. Petersburg's River of Poop http://t.co/GdhOQRNg2R by flushing GPS trackers http://t.co/kP6tfTQB94
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Watch Mediastan for free – a WikiLeaks Road Movie http://t.co/xtHOeNTLPR #assange
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#Israel Moves to Make its Biggest Land Grab in 30 Years, in #Palestine 's West Bank http://t.co/72bOxzbJho http://t.co/LycUlZ3bkE
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How Muslim and Christian Women in #Nigeria Banded Together to Fight Violent Extremism ( @pri ) http://t.co/ZkybXaJxtg http://t.co/NyV5SVwqSZ
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#BringBackOurGirls : Nigerians Demand Release of 200 Abducted Girls http://t.co/Q5DGfveLCn http://t.co/1lqzncX7dW
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Twitter was a minefield of false information during the 2019 Nigerian elections
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Global Voices is seeking to recruit subeditors to edit stories written in or translated into English by our contributors. We strongly welcome candidates from outside North America and Western Europe.
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Leading Chinese dissident artist @aiww believes that #HongKong artists can still find ways to express themselves despite the challenges posed by growing political censorship. @hkfp
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Activists Call for Release of Saudi Woman Forcibly Sent Back to the Kingdom "If I go back I'll be dead" #SaveDinaAli
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Brazil’s First Indigenous Online Radio Station Uses Digital Media to Promote Native Languages and Communities
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"Yes, I am Indian. So what? The pain of losing a child is universal." #IndiawithPakistan http://t.co/fe2bZPr4r4 by @rezwan
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Ukrainian Protesters Play Lennon's "Imagine" Live to Riot Police http://t.co/s5l6e7WIzm #euromaidan http://t.co/LdiA1hSDXU
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Please consider donating to Global Voices—Help Us Keep Connecting the World! Thank you
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If new iPhone software can disable recording of live concerts, can it also be used to censor protests? http://ow.ly/5mRor @levjoy
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A local strongman notorious for harassment of female employees in a remote #Serbia municipality received a three-month prison sentence in a trial billed as the first high-profile #MeToo case in the country. @MarijaLukic36 @nedavimobgd
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Japanese Singer Sports Hitler Moustache in New Year's Political Statement http://t.co/rj4VCPmasf #Japan http://t.co/tpWRZwA55I
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BREAKING NEWS: Egyptian Blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah Released on Bail http://t.co/FrxrwNqsoB #FreeAlaa http://t.co/8bq2oiHYd8
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The internet plays a role in imposing hegemonic language, but young people are using it to carve space for their languages. @MelissaVidaa #Australia #Mexico
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#Turkey Mourns a Female Student's Brutal Death http://t.co/7QMyuBABHZ "teach men how to behave" #ÖzgecanAslan http://t.co/6VDlaokUEt
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Hundreds of Thousands Join Saudi Women-Led Campaign to End Male Guardianship in the Kingdom
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Social Network Analysis Reveals Full Scale of Kremlin's Twitter Bot Campaign http://t.co/oQzxBzfgJ2 http://t.co/qNPqoF6C6w
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Georgia’s ‘Sex Wikileaks’ Revives Fear of Govt Snooping "Everything you do in your bedroom can be used against you"
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Join our @RisingVoices team for a Twitter Space on how to keep language communities safe online. Tune in December 20 at 2 pm UTC!
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End Impunity, Free Expression! "For us, the culture of impunity surrounding attacks on journalists represents one of the single greatest threats to freedom of expression worldwide." @IFEX
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As a young, black, favela-bred lesbian woman activist, she championed several underrepresented demographics in Brazil's institutional politics and was beloved by activists across the country #MariellePresente
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‘Hate Is Not What Humans Should Do': Slain Journalist Kenji Goto's Words Live On Online http://t.co/DkL9RMaQ5U http://t.co/znQSDBBh8X
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Register Now for the Global Voices Summit 2017: December 2-3 in Colombo, Sri Lanka!
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Nigerians Demand Release of Abducted Girls http://t.co/TojPkhC4fx "they bundled us into trucks" #BringBackOurGirls http://t.co/ulQ1hPmRHA
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New York Times ad for Nairobi bureau chief riddled with clichés about Africa "Here we go again: the @nytimes appear to want to hire Tarzan as the next East Africa Bureau Chief."
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Global Voices Honors the Life of Open Web Activist Bassel Khartabil, Executed by the Syrian Regime RIP #FreeBassel
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Ecuador's indigenous Amazonian peoples launch online COVID-19 tracker "Data will always give us an argument, a technical basis to support public health actions."
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Meet the Filipino Scientist Who Invented the Videophone in 1954 "well before Skype"
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The Russian Government's 7,000 Wikipedia Edits http://t.co/be8g3RjTdC http://t.co/vSuUGUS1zP
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Non-Violent Activist Razan Zaitouneh ( @razanz ) and her Team Kidnapped in #Syria http://t.co/RuO2tIC3vc #FreeRazan http://t.co/7acA9g0jmG
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#COVID ー19 Global coverage for a pandemic … We are an international network of reporters, speaking over 100 languages covering the consequences of #COVID19 . Given the scale and scope of the pandemic, we are now organizing our coverage based on regions.
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While #Taiwan 🇹🇼 continues to support #Ukraine 🇺🇦 by sending humanitarian aid, including to refugees across Europe, Kyiv sides with Beijing and gives Taipei the cold shoulder. @nasredinhoja @m_kniazhytskyi @TAIWANmoda @audreyt @MOFA_Taiwan
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At least two Chinese social media platforms have added a script to their sites and applications to generate a hidden digital watermark to track the original user behind screenshot sharing. #China
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One Activist's Vision of a Feminist Democracy for Catalonia "They came with weapons and we hid ballot boxes"
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German Companies Are Selling Unlicensed Surveillance Technologies to Human Rights Violators – and Making Millions http://t.co/WOBennFif3
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Our work building bridges across cultures, languages & perspectives is more urgent than ever. Consider helping us:
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Protesters in Mexico City set presidential palace door on fire (photo v @MexicAnarchist ) http://t.co/nWE1hejcUo #Ayotzinapa #yamecans é
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📍 @Sally_abed is a Palestinian leader of Standing Together ( @omdimbeyachad ) (Omdim be'Yachad/ Naqef Ma'an), the largest Jewish-Arab grassroots movement in Israel. She is running for city council in Haifa as head of a Jewish-Arab list.
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Our latest special coverage: #Russia 's brazen invasion of #Ukraine marks a dangerous new phase in the history of Eastern Europe, with serious implications for the post-Cold War international order.
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Colorful Rickshaw Paintings Protest Violence Against Women in #Bangladesh
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The life of Egyptian blogger and activist @Alaa Abd El Fattah is in danger. The 39-year-old was jailed in 2019 on charges of spreading fake news, but, despite the limits of Egyptian law, he has yet to go to trial. @ellerybiddle #FreeAlaa #Egypt
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Ukraine: Understanding the #Euromaidan Protests http://t.co/YnjXcgDFnu PHOTO: Anti-crackdown protest in Lviv tonight http://t.co/S9D9WbQ2wk
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This Giving Season, Donate to @GlobalVoices - Help GV stay free, independent and sustainable
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Why Are Students in #Ethiopia Protesting Against a Capital City Expansion Plan?
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This #WorldPressFreedomDay we wish to revisit some of the stories we have published that highlight the importance of defending a free press around the world. #WPFD2019
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Istanbul's renowned #BogaziciUniversity has been swayed by mass protests since early January demanding the resignation of a new rector appointed by President Erdoğan. @arzugeybulla #Turkey
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Mumbai Locals Transform the Versova Shore With Their ‘World's Largest Beach Clean-Up’ "We need to maintain it"
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PHOTOS: Massive Art Installation in Pakistan Targets American Drone Operators http://t.co/aR8QcedI3H #NotABugSplat http://t.co/Ta2WPR694L
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Under Bombs, Gaza's Doctors Are Saving Lives and Tweeting Heartbreaking Stories Between Shifts http://t.co/Hv9V6O48cn http://t.co/boj9Xsy1to
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Meet the artist embroidering #Belarus ’ protests For Rufina Bazlova, if the revolution can't be live-tweeted, it must be embroidered instead
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How Muslim and Christian Women in #Nigeria Banded Together to Fight Violent Extremism http://t.co/Gtkqimj5iK http://t.co/4tqDimn4d9
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The Russians Have Weaponized Photoshop http://t.co/6ApaltNIUu via @runetecho http://t.co/seBPcNXgLJ
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As multilingual community, we celebrate the fact that Asterix comics have been translated in +100 languages and dialects. We pay homage to coauthor Albert Uderzo (92) who passed away today in his home in France. Photo: #Asterix and Obelix in English, Croatian, French and Serbian
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A Children's Book Introduces German Kids to the True Story of Syrian Refugees
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