Understanding the meaning of ‘shell-shocked’ in a context of war, conflict and gross human rights violations often allows us to negotiate with a complex of emotions and stories that move beyond journalistic ethos of ‘obje...
@Verdade, a Mozambican weekly newspaper and Global Voices partner, was the victim of a massive cyber attack on Oct. 15, 2014, when Mozambican general elections took place last week. The attack began on the eve of the electi...
Citizen groups in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas reported yesterday that Twitter user María del Rosario Fuentes Rubio had been kidnapped and murdered. Although it is unknown who was responsible for her death,...
Those who have the best credentials to guide us through the labyrinth of perplexing constellations of events are being moved away from the frontlines of the public debate. Foreign reporting is facing extinction.
Writer and actor Jason Sifflet’s popular Saint Lucia-based Flogg Blog was taken down by Google for violating its terms of service before being restored last week. The no-holds-barred, muckraking blog had become both notor...
When Elizabeth Cochran was just twenty years old she read a particularly upsetting editorial in her local paper entitled What Girls Are Good For. In short, the column effectively considered the answer to be nothing. Eliza...
World nations are gearing up for a new set of goals as the clock ticks towards the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals. Among the discussion for what the world’s new aims and objectives should be is the issue o...
Since the kidnapping and subsequent killing of three teenage Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on 12 June, the Israeli Army have launched a mass, indiscriminate campaign of abductions, home invasions, shellings and aer...
The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan have claimed responsibility for the brazen attack on Pakistan’s busiest airport Jinnah International. The 6-hour siege left 24 people dead, 10 of whom were militants. Just before 5 am, ...