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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Candice Stewart |Emma Lewis |Janine Mendes-Franco |Carolina Pichardo
“Where are you really from?” When asked, my answer is an automatic “I’m Jamaican!” But how would you know, really? Is it the bold black, green, and gold flag I walk with? Is it my CARICOM-branded Jamaican passport? My confident stride? It’s likely the most obvious giveaway — my speech, sprinkled with the sounds of Jamaican Patwa.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Janine Mendes-Franco |Emma Lewis |Carolina Pichardo |Arzu Geybullayeva
March 8 is International Women's Day (IWD), and the 2025 theme is “Accelerate Action.” According to the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Gender Gap Report, it will take until 2158 to achieve gender parity at the existing rate of progress.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Teodora C. Hasegan |María Alvarez Malvido |Rowan Glass |Carolina Pichardo
This article was originally published on Observacom and it is republished on Global Voices under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Emma Lewis |Janine Mendes-Franco |Carolina Pichardo
The U.S. launch of award-winning Jamaican writer and pioneering environmental activist Diana McCaulay‘s sixth novel, “A House for Miss Pauline,” took place on February 25 at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn as part of the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival. This is to be followed by an online launch by the book's UK publishers. The novel is set in rural Jamaica.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Janine Mendes-Franco |Carolina Pichardo |Flora Thomas
Towards the end of the 1960s, as Black Power branched off from the U.S. civil rights movement, the fundamental values it was fighting for — which went far beyond simply demanding equal rights to issues of economic empowerment, pride in Black identity, economic empowerment, political self-determination and the dismantling of racist systems that had kept Black people powerless — spread well beyond American borders, including to Trinidad and Tobago.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | María Alvarez Malvido |Rowan Glass |Teodora C. Hasegan |Carolina Pichardo
If you follow the social media pages of Rising Voices, you might recognize the voice and image of Wilfredo Villca, a Quechua content creator from Bolivia and the current manager of our Instagram account, where we share the programming and announcements of Activismo Lenguas, and the work of activists using digital tools in various languages.
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1 month ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Carolina Pichardo |Mariela Arnst |Janine Mendes-Franco |Emma Lewis
El sector hotelero de República Dominicana avanza hacia un modelo más sostenible al integrar energías renovables en sus operaciones, a pesar de que persisten obstáculos importantes en algunas regiones.
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2 months ago | 
tolerance.ca | Carolina Pichardo
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Carolina Pichardo |Flora Thomas |Janine Mendes-Franco
The Dominican Republic's hotel sector is advancing towards a more sustainable model by integrating renewable energy into its operations, although significant obstacles persist in some regions. Electrical engineer Luis Jonas Ortiz, former project manager for biomass hybridisation at the country’s National Energy Commission, says that the transition to solar power in hotels has been slow, especially in isolated areas where electricity concession companies impose restrictions.
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2 months ago | 
tolerance.ca | Carolina Pichardo
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