In the longer term, Nepal will need to have an effective strategy to deal with seismic and climate change-induced disasters that are almost certainly going to increase in future.

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While Assam’s government urged residents to utilize the Citizenship Amendment Act, widespread fears of undermining existing legal claims and forced migrant status led many families to avoid the proces...

In post-uprising Bangladesh, LGBTQI+ activists face a convergence: a hostile political class, vanishing international funding, and a state that participates in the violence against them .

Bangladeshi migrants, trying to attempting to reach Greece or Italy by boat via Libya, are considered “gold” by human traffickers, fueling a USD 190 million smuggling economy.

Bangladeshi migrants, trying to attempting to reach Greece or Italy by boat via Libya, are considered “gold” by human traffickers, fueling a USD 190 million smuggling economy.

India’s recent AI Impact Summit highlighted the Indian government’s ambitions and economic promise, yet critics warned that surveillance and facial recognition restrict civic space, hamper human…

Imagine discovering that your purchase records, collected by a retail shop since you became a customer, are now publicly available. This includes not only what you bought, but also when, how often you...

Dismislab collected at least a dozen posts and comments with the core message being "without manipulation Jamaat alliance candidates would have won many more seats."

জাতীয় সংসদ নির্বাচন ২০২৬ এবং গণভোটের ফলাফল দেখুন বিবিসি বাংলায়। নির্বাচন কমিশন থেকে ৩০০ আসনের ফলাফল, গণভোটে হ্যা এবং না ভোটের সংখ্যা এবং শতকরা হার থাকছে এই ফলাফল পাতায়।

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A policy brief examining data-driven election manipulation in Bangladesh, highlighting digital vulnerabilities and reforms to strengthen electoral transparency.

For more than a year, expatriate activists Elias Hossain and Pinaki Bhattacharya have used Facebook and YouTube to instigate and organise a series of mob attacks on political and media institutions in...

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For twenty years, Global Voices has connected writers and translators around the world. That work is harder - and more important - that ever.

The ongoing eviction of Bengali-speaking Muslim families in Assam, India, widely viewed as communally motivated, has led to widespread human rights violations.

And how a global community of storytellers and dot-connectors showed me that independent media works best when we’ve got each other’s backs. When Global Voices Director Malka Older wrote to our commun...

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"I miss visiting my grandmother and seeing her sewing clothes, I miss buying freshly made tortillas, and I even miss hating on my neighbor for blasting Mass at 4 AM."

In a month-long investigation, Dismislab found 10 articles on US-based International Policy Digest (IPD) website critical of Bangladesh’s post-uprising government have been written by authors who appe...

A confluence of troubling trends is reshaping the landscape of global human rights and democratic governance in the Global Majority, writes Ramsha Jahangir.

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Doublethink Lab and the China In The World network present the China Index, the first cross-regional project to objectively measure and visualize the People‘s Republic of China (PRC)‘s overseas influe...

This summary of Global Voices' 2024 South Asia coverage highlights how governments introduced measures to tighten control over online spaces amid elections and political unrest.

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A Western tech giant cast aside local, original journalism on a story rooted in Bangladesh in favour of an avalanche of divisive coverage from neighbouring India.

Insurgents seized Myanmar's border with Bangladesh in one of the bloodiest battles of the civil war.

The rapid digitization in Bangladesh has not only accelerated economic growth and expanded connectivity but has also profoundly transformed social dynamics.

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A MASSIVE part of Global Voices is the Rising Voices program led by Eddie Avila. As he puts it, Rising Voice is about “helping communities meet their self-determined needs” – often this means preservi...

The Global Climate Justice Fellowship partners independent Sinophone journalists and journalists from Central Asia, Francophone Africa, and Latin America to assess the role of China in mitigating the ...