Ghanaian lawmakers are renewing efforts to pass the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Act, 2024, a controversial, anti-LGBTQ+ bill that criminalizes the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities and disbands ...

This article first appeared in ProBox on May 27, 2025. An edited version is being republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. In recent years, the People's Republic of China ...

The charges for which Istanbul's popular former mayor received a sentence — which stem from comments he made in January — predate his arrest.

Internet is more than a business tool. In Africa, young people are also using it to amplify their voices and get involved in politics, such is the case in Cameroon.

On July 10, the Brazilian Academy of Letters (Academia Brasileira de Letras — ABL) announced that it had elected the first Black woman as a member in its 128-year history. The woman who broke the ...

The article explores why the term “secular” or “secularism” in the constitution has become a source of significant controversy in both India and Bangladesh.

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Spicy headlines surrounding “Nanjing Sister Hong” have been mushrooming on the Internet in the past weeks, triggering discussion about China’s gender imbalance, sexual repression, toxic masculinity, ...

The government has ordered a 20 percent reduction in the country's saiga population, around 800,000, until the end of November 2025.

Decades ago, vaccine manufacturing was not a foreign concept in Africa. Nigeria, for example, once had one of the continent’s most vibrant production hubs. This laboratory contributed tremendously to ...

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