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For many Indigenous communities, the traditions, art, and ceremonies are the backbone of their shared identity. However, all too often, these traditions are extracted, repackaged, sold, or seized for someone else’s gain.
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The commodification of Indigenous cultures and traditions
Too often, resources and meaning flow outward from the community that created them and enrich outsiders — often the same groups that have been oppressing them for centuries.
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September 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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This past year, Thailand’s “Bad Student Organization” turned to a new mechanism to question seemingly unbreakable cultural and educational taboos: The theatre.

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Thai student movement forms ‘Hope Theatre,’ making the stage its new battleground
“If you’re a bad student in your school, maybe it’s because you’re rebellious. Maybe it’s because you’re brave enough to question your teacher or challenge their power.“
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September 24, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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“If you’re a bad student in your school, maybe it’s because you’re rebellious. Maybe it’s because you’re brave enough to question your teacher or challenge their power.“

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Thai student movement forms ‘Hope Theatre,’ making the stage its new battleground
“If you’re a bad student in your school, maybe it’s because you’re rebellious. Maybe it’s because you’re brave enough to question your teacher or challenge their power.“
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September 23, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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Protests over jobs, development and dignity are spreading across Tunisia, raising questions about growing links between social and political mobilisations.

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From north to south, protests sweep across Tunisia: Is change at hand?
Protests over jobs, development and dignity are spreading across Tunisia, raising questions about growing links between social and political mobilisations.
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September 23, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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Support our next #GVSpotlight! With these stories, we aim to pull back the camouflage that Big Tech uses to obscure their connection with oppressive governments, and to highlight cases of technological authoritarianism — and resistance — around the world.
Support Global Voices’ Spotlight: Big Tech and Authoritarianism
With these stories, we aim to pull back the camouflage that Big Tech uses to obscure their connection with oppressive governments, and to highlight cases of technological authoritarianism — and resistance — around the world.
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September 25, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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GV observed Japanese peace activism shifting from an ideological, often confrontational and hierarchical approach among the older generation to a more individualised, accessible, pop-style approach among young people.
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Young Japanese find new outlets for peace activism amid rising tensions in the Pacific
GV observed Japanese peace activism shifting from an ideological, often confrontational and hierarchical approach among the older generation to a more individualised, accessible, pop-style approach among young people.
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September 25, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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What started as anger over educational corruption grew into a nationwide campaign over unemployment, political accountability, and the dignity of a generation.

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What India’s ‘Cockroach’ protests reveal about digital authoritarianism
“Democratic freedoms depend not only on protection from direct state violence but on citizens being able to organise without assuming their participation is permanently recorded.”
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September 23, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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August 6, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Journalists and media need to stop repeating tech companies’ marketing pitches, and policymakers must stop prioritizing the imagined urgency over safety and human rights.
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There is no connection but human: Why it is vital to value human creativity in the age of AI
Generative AI does not write, design or paint: it generates statistically closest patterns; these are probabilistic automation systems, which make them fundamentally different from human cognition or ...
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April 21, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Citizenship isn’t automatic, inevitable, or even uniform across different nations; the way it works is the result of a series of decisions. This spotlight on statelessness illuminates the ways those choices needlessly hurt millions of people.
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The invisible crisis that strips people of citizenship
This issue fascinates me because of its near-invisibility: As many of our Spotlight articles observe, citizenship is easy to take for granted when you receive it automatically and never have to defend it.
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August 27, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Protest in democracy · Global Voices
With this spotlight, we seek to explore the many forms of protest, the tactics states use to delegitimize and suppress them, and the complex relationship between protest and democracy. 
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September 24, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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"Continuing to exert such mindless and total control over young Singaporeans and preventing them from expressing peaceful dissent is a one-way ticket to decline."

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Singapore's ‘permit regime’ undermines the citizens’ right to protest
"Can Singapore preserve order without over-criminalising peaceful expression? Can we protect cohesion without demanding quiet obedience?"
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September 23, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Protest in democracy · Global Voices
With this spotlight, we seek to explore the many forms of protest, the tactics states use to delegitimize and suppress them, and the complex relationship between protest and democracy. 
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September 17, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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In this collaborative article, Global Voices dives into non-binary gender representation traditions from around the world, spanning China, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and more.
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Beyond the binary: Global traditions of gender fluidity
In this collaborative article, Global Voices dives into non-binary gender representation traditions from around the world, spanning China, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and more.
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July 2, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Protest in democracy · Global Voices
With this spotlight, we seek to explore the many forms of protest, the tactics states use to delegitimize and suppress them, and the complex relationship between protest and democracy. 
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September 23, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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Today, there are artists in Russia who get paid for making war-themed, monumental art on multi-storey buildings, but small expressions of activism still survive through ordinary people using the language of street art to protest.
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Street art in Russia is dead and the country is full of monumental war art
At first, artists who emigrated still dealt with themes of war and their departure from Russia. Later, these broadened to include loss of home, identity, displacement and loneliness.
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September 23, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Bangladesh’s 2024 uprising toppled a government, but two years later, reforms to police, judiciary, cyber laws, and state institutions remain contested, incomplete, and debated.

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Bangladesh: Protests can change governments, but can they strengthen democracy?
Bangladesh’s 2024 uprising toppled a government, but two years later, reforms to police, judiciary, cyber laws, and state institutions remain contested, incomplete, and debated, leaving citizens asking whether real change occurred.
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September 24, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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Protest in democracy · Global Voices
With this spotlight, we seek to explore the many forms of protest, the tactics states use to delegitimize and suppress them, and the complex relationship between protest and democracy. 
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September 25, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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April 23, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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July 30, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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May 12, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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"There can be no legitimate development when its realization depends on the destruction of what sustain a people’s existence."

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The A’uwẽ-Xavante people's denunciation of megaprojects in Brazil
An Indigenous-led campaign denounces the impacts of a mega railway project and demands respect for territory, self-determination, and the right to live and dream.
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September 18, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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