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A feeling of hopelessness: Interview with a Uyghur refugee in Turkey
Image by Ershat Abdul'ehet representing the Chinese government as a red dragon and a man wearing a traditional Central Asian hat and a blue shirt symbolizing the movement for independe…
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Fiji general cites need to ‘stifle criticism’ in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
Fiji police in the capital Suva. Photo by Flickr user Tickler Tin (CC BY-SA 2.0) Brigadier-General Jone Kalouniwai, the chief of staff of Republic of Fiji Military Forces, wrote that aut…
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‘Language revolt': This activist tweets against erasure of first languages in South Africa
Khoekhoe and Ncuuki, the forgotten mother tongues? A woman from the Ndebele group in South Africa. Many indigenous groups and languages in South Africa lack representation online. Image b…
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Will the Lesser Antillean iguana be saved from extinction?
The species is threatened by green iguanas and humans Lesser Antillean iguana (Iguana delicatissima) in a tree in Coulibistrie, Dominica. Image by Postdlf , CC BY-SA . Often portrayed i…
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COVID-19 diaries from Wuhan: Chinese netizens’ tribute to whistleblower Dr. Ai Fen
Dogs strolling in the yard. (Photo credit: Guo Jing. Used with permission.) The following post is the tenth in a series of diaries written by independent filmmaker and feminist scholar …
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Women conquer space in Bolivia's Carnival of Oruro
Women set up an arena to claim representation there Women make traditional Andean dances their own with female-led machas caporales at the Carnival of Oruro 2020. Photo by Fabiola Gu…
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Japanese superfood can't combat COVID-19, but may prolong your life
By late April, natto became a quack COVID-19 ‘cure’ “納豆ごはん” ( Natto over rice) by Flickr user Masafumi Iwai , CC BY-NC 2.0 Check out Global Voices’ special coverage of the global im…