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In Bosnia and Herzegovina, children with Down syndrome are using a video game to safely navigate the internet
Being able to use the internet safely is also about being able to participate in everyday life.
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Complementary forces: Why activism needs art to drive action
"Artistic activism uses the emotional experience of art as a prompt for action and directs that action towards change, turning a complex problem into a clear public message."
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Protest as a pillar of democracy
This spotlight is, then, a form of protest in its own right: a way of reasserting that protest is legitimate, important for democracy, and everywhere.
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How a civic tech platform is helping women in Serbia get home safely
“Many incidents of harassment, intimidation, or discomfort in public spaces never become official complaints. Some women do not believe reporting will lead to change.”
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Students air their frustrations anonymously online as emigration tempts many young people in North Macedonia
“Our idea is not simply to collect complaints, but to transform individual students’ experiences into evidence that can be used for advocacy and for creating change.”
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How authoritarian states are building an international market for digital surveillance
Digital authoritarianism is not developing in isolation, but through the international exchange of technologies, standards, and practices.
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Subsea cables and oil pipelines: The infrastructure linking AI, empire, and occupation
The growing importance of subsea cables in military and economic policy offers an entrypoint into understanding the corrosive, yet dependent, relationship between AI and oil infrastructure
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How a farmers’ protest in Bucharest was inflated online, then hijacked
Over 1,180 Facebook posts and 100 TikTok videos analyzed showed how a genuine farmers’ protest was inflated by clusters of accounts sharing identical messages, then folded into anti-government, anti-EU and pro-Kremlin narratives.
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The sound of resistance
As part of Global Voices’ September Spotlight, “Protest in Democracy,” members of our community will be sharing examples of protest music past and present from their communities in this collaborative article.
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When the right to protest remains, but demonstrating comes at a price
Since the 1950s, Europe’s democratic and human rights system has developed through the gradual strengthening of protections for political expression, assembly and dissent.
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After five years of war, how do Ukrainian small businesses survive?
In this interview, writer and journalist Victoria Belim-Frolova shares her observations about Russia’s war on Ukraine and how it forces “a constant process of adaptation,” especially in women-led small businesses.
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Pskov’s medieval religious art is being appropriated by the Russian state to support the invasion of Ukraine
In Russia, authorities are leveraging traditional medieval religious art of the once-independent city-state of Pskov to justify its invasion of Ukraine.
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Russian TikTokers wanted to vote for an anti-war agenda. Putin’s farce elections did not allow that.
Elections in Russia are a sham. Yet when someone appears genuinely committed to an anti-war agenda, many had seize that hope as a chance to change, including young TikTokers
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From the streets to the ballot box: What Hungary can teach Serbia
The challenge is not simply whether an entrenched authoritarian government can be defeated, but whether almost two years of a student-led mobilisation can be translated into electoral power.
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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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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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