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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Mong Palatino |Akwe Amosu |Ramna Saeed |Janine Mendes-Franco
Exile Hub is one of Global Voices’ partners in Southeast Asia, emerging in response to the 2021 coup in Myanmar, focusing on empowering journalists and human rights defenders. They released a statement on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2025, an edited version of which has been published here. Press freedom is a fundamental human right that is essential for a free, peaceful, and just society.
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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Mong Palatino |Akwe Amosu |Filip Noubel |Janine Mendes-Franco
The story of Mizzima News attests to the role of independent media in chronicling the Myanmar people’s struggle for the restoration of democracy. Mizzima News was established in 1998 by Myanmar refugees in India to provide accurate and independent reporting about the situation in Myanmar communities reeling from decades of military rule. When the government embarked on a democratic transition, Mizzima News became the first exiled media to establish an office in Myanmar in 2012.
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3 weeks ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Janine Mendes-Franco |Mariela Arnst |Oiwan Lam |Eva Gonzalez |Eva González
El 12 de abril de 2018, el juzgado POS 09 del Tribunal de Justicia de Puerto España estaba repleta de interesados dispuestos a escuchar el resultado de un muy analizado caso judicial, el de Jason Jones contra el fiscal general de Trinidad y Tobago. Jones, gay trinitense defensor de derechos que vive en Reino Unido, impugnó las secciones 13 y 16 de la ley de delitos sexuales del país (capítulo 11:28), que penaliza el sexo anal entre adultos que consienten en esa relación.
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4 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Olivia Losbar |Emma Lewis |Janine Mendes-Franco |Pamela Ephraim
It's a farming model inherited from the colonial period and neglected for years, but is now enjoying a certain revival – the “Creole garden,” a traditional home garden that produces staple foods for families. Banana trees, tubers such as yams and manioc, fruit trees like avocado and mango, and medicinal and aromatic plants all cohabit in a harmonious ecosystem; any surpluses are shared with relatives and neighbours.
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4 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Oiwan Lam |Janine Mendes-Franco |Pamela Ephraim |Filip Noubel
This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. On March 19, 2025, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was detained along with around 105 other municipal officials and politicians on the alleged crimes of corruption and aiding a terrorist organisation, in what Human Rights Watch has called an attempt to suppress legitimate political engagement.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Emma Lewis |Janine Mendes-Franco |Mong Palatino |Mohamed Mohamud
Roots reggae artist Max Romeo, known for his uncompromising lyrics, died on the evening of April 11 at a private hospital in St. Andrew, Jamaica, due to complications from heart disease. He was 80 years old. His family shared on Instagram:Born Maxwell Livingston Smith (also known as “Maxie Smith”) on November 22, 1944, in Saint D’Acre, a small country town near Alexandria in the hills of St. Ann, Jamaica, Romeo left home at the age of 14.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Teodora C. Hasegan |Laura Chaparro |Gabriela García Calderón |Janine Mendes-Franco
Small in stature, with black and white fur, whiskers for days, and a touching gaze, Añemó, which in the Kamentsá language means “to be strong,” came into my life on August 7, 2021, during a pivotal year in my personal, intellectual, and academic history. I had begun my PhD in law just a few months before, with a scholarship from the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia, where I took on the challenge of communicating, through legal lenses, other ways of being in the world.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Janine Mendes-Franco |Emma Lewis |Kevin Rennie |GV South Asia
Trinidad and Tobago-born, UK-based poet Anthony Vahni Capildeo, who hails from the family that produced Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul, has been awarded the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for poetry, a prestigious literary accolade that recognises eight international writers — two from four different genres — each year.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Janine Mendes-Franco |Emma Lewis |Hasya Nindita |Zhaoyin Feng
Mark Loquan, a distinguished chemical engineer and celebrated composer who effortlessly moved between Trinidad and Tobago's corporate and creative worlds – and often made them seamlessly intertwine for the greater national good – passed away on April 6, at the age of 63, from brain cancer. His career in the local energy industry began in 1982, when he took up the position of process engineer at Trinidad Nitrogen Co. Ltd. Twenty years later, he became the first local president of Yara Trinidad Ltd.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Janine Mendes-Franco |Emma Lewis |Arzu Geybullayeva |Jean de Dieu SOVON
On April 12, 2018, courtroom POS 09 in the Hall of Justice in Port of Spain was jam-packed with interested parties eager to hear the outcome of a highly scrutinised court case – Jason Jones vs. the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago. Jones, a Trinidad-born gay rights advocate who lives in the United Kingdom, was challenging Sections 13 and 16 of the country's Sexual Offences Act (Chapter 11:28), which criminalise anal sex between consenting adults.
