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Controversy over Thanksgiving celebration in a Chinese university highlights a growing culture of political snitching
A student threatened to report a dormitory supervisor for giving out candy on the American holiday Screenshots of a 2019 ad for China's National Security Day (left) and the group chat…
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Exemplary governance? Which countries should high-COVID nations follow?
Connecting illness, death and governance in a COVID world By Ian Inkster As much of America, Europe and many anglophone nations face the welter of possible choices of action available to …
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This Giving Tuesday, Donate to Global Voices
Human connections across lines of difference can change how people understand the world. This Giving Tuesday, donate to Global Voices: https://globalvoices.org/donate/ What a year 2020…
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Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert freed from Iranian jail in prisoner swap
The academic spent 804 days in prison in Iran Kylie Moore-Gilbert after her release from prison in Iran. Screenshot SBS News video November 20, 2020. The release of British-Australian a…
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Between commemoration and rage: Haitians confront a growth in fatal kidnappings
In five months, Haiti's reported abductions have more than doubled Screen capture from the video tribute to E velyne Sincère, published on Tele Ginen ’s YouTube channel on 6 November…
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Global Voices condemns the attacks on North Macedonia NGO Metamorphosis Foundation
We call on the country's authorities to investigate the online hate campaign Group photo of Metamorphosis staff taken during a September 2019 event, published on their Facebook page. …
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From #BlackLivesMatter to #VidasNegrasImportam: Call to end colonial legacy of police brutality
From Africa to Brazil, systemic brutality against Black people must stop Monument in Curaçao in homage toTula, an enslaved African man who freed himself and led the Curaçao Slave Revolt i…
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Hong Kong pro-democracy trio defiant in face of upcoming jail sentence
The have pleaded guilty to charges of participating in an ‘unlawful protest’ Agnes Chow, Ivan Lam and Joshua Wong. Image from HKFP. Used with permission. On November 23, Hong Kong pro-d…
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Trinidad & Tobago deports Venezuelan women and children as matter of ‘national security’
‘It's not up to anyone to just change the law’ A group of Venezuelan asylum-seekers including 16 children arrive for the second time on Trinidad soil, on November 24, 2020, due to a c…