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Brazilian human rights and criminal lawyer Edgard Raoul used to work at a law firm in Sao Paulo. After a few months of feeling helpless while watching images and videos of people fleeing Syria and ...

In November there were two horrible nights of violence. The first took the lives of over 40 in Beirut; the second took the lives of over 120 people in Paris.

In this excerpt from our video Hangout...

When should we call an act of violence "terrorism" and when should we call a militant a "terrorist"? 

Names and labels are something we take very seriously at Global Voices. From our editorial cod...

Understanding how Tor as a community, a platform, and a circumvention tool works.

'Some bodies are global, but most bodies remain local, regional, "ethnic."'

Join us this Tuesday as Joey Ayoub, a Lebanese blogger and Global Voices contributor,  Lova Rakotomalala, our Paris-base...

This Saturday is the first day of the 2014 Tunisian legislative elections. Voters outside the country will be able to cast their ballots throughout the weekend in Europe and the rest of the world. ...

On August 22 and 23, Beirut witnessed its largest protest in recent history, with 20,000 people gathering to tell the government that they stink.  

Lebanon's trash crisis started on July 17, when ...

Recently in France, a rejected asylum seeker from Chad set himself on fire outside an appeal court. 

According to the UNHCR, 612,700 applied for asylum in North America, Europe, East Asia and the ...

Last week a leading private university in Pakistan was forced to cancel an academic discussion on human rights in its southwestern province Balochistan “due to state intervention“.

Balochistan, Pa...

The Al Khawaja family has found itself at the forefront of protests in Bahrain, ever since the so-called Arab Spring made its way to the tiny island- kingdom on February 14, 2011.  

Prominent huma...

As governments are struggling to address the growing refugee crisis in Europe, ordinary citizens across Greece, Germany, Hungary, and Italy are organizing to arrange resources and even offering the...

Since October 1, knife attacks, shootings and protests have become near-daily occurrences in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. At least 57 Palestinians and eight Israelis have been killed since...

Hundreds of political prisoners are currently on hunger strike in Egypt and Bahrain. 

Up until a few weeks ago, both our guests in the episode of GV Face, Maryam and Alaa were on hunger strike and...

We started as a simple blog and a manifesto statement, resulting from an inspiring international bloggers’ meeting put together by two Berkman fellows at Harvard University in December 2004 .

"Tha...

Yemen is in political limbo, without a president and government, since the Houthi militias took over government institutions and the presidential palace in capital city Sanaa. 

With the announceme...

The discovery of mass graves in Iguala and dozens of missing school students in Ayotzinapa has led to country-wide protests and a tense national debate about law and order. Global Voices' Mexico te...

Yemen's popular uprising in 2011 helped oust President Saleh after 33 years in power. How much have things really changed for the country's 25 million people?

The uprising was supposed to bring mo...

Tunisia and Ukraine recently held elections, a challenging feat in a post-revolutionary time. In both countries cutting-edge online platforms were deployed to raise awareness and help monitor votin...