For the past three years, photographer and visual artist Santiago Méndez Arvelaez has been documenting Pride celebrations in Venezuela’s capital city, creating a powerful visual record of queer life, visibility, and resistance. Support #GVSpotlight: globalvoices.org/2026/05/12...

By transforming these once-feared sites — associated with isolation and atrocity — into places of remembrance and education, the museums offer Albania a path towards reckoning, while fostering a deeper understanding of its history. globalvoices.org/2026/06/18/b...

Gina Romero, UN Special Rapporteur for the rights to freedom of assembly and of association, presents a report on the profound crisis of mental health and psychological trauma currently sweeping through civil society and the global activist community. advox.globalvoices.org/2026/06/23/d...

This article documents three patterns of journalistic failure during India's Operation Sindoor, based on formal complaints filed with broadcasting regulators, independent fact-checking investigations, court orders, and an expose by The Washington Post.

In the Balkans, tradition is often deemed to be fixed and patriarchal. Yet the region’s history, folklore and popular memory contain more complicated examples of the fluidity of gender roles.

The global funding crisis has made it harder to report on these issues, even as that reporting is more and more vital. Your donation makes #GVSpotlight possible! globalvoices.org/2026/05/12...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad has not brought freedom for transgender women in Syria. Instead, threats, attacks, and legal persecution have intensified, leaving them increasingly vulnerable. Support our #GVSpotlight work: globalvoices.org/2026/05/12/s... globalvoices.org/2026/06/26/l...

”[It’s] more than a simple qualification for a football competition; it is a message for the whole world [...] Haiti is not summarised by gang violence, dirt and misery.”

European companies ship hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste to Morocco each year, erasing the pollution from their books while families in Casablanca choke on the smoke. globalvoices.org/2026/06/28/h...

The main risk lies in the list of “safe third countries” — if Russian citizens pass through those countries, they could be denied refugee status and sent back. globalvoices.org/2026/06/28/f...

In this edition, we uncover a narrative that portrays anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa as a form of resistance to colonialism. Support our #GVSpotlight work on Gender Diversity! globalvoices.org/2026/05/12/s... globalvoices.org/2026/06/29/f...

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Pakistan bears the devastating consequences of a climate crisis it did not create, yet inadequate global funding and weak domestic response continue to leave millions vulnerable to glacial lake disasters. globalvoices.org/2026/06/26/t...

Haiti is under the grip of armed gangs that control much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and major national highways, inflicting violence that includes sexual assault, kidnapping, extortion, and arson. globalvoices.org/2026/06/25/h...

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Since the political crisis in Myanmar has intensified, journalists have faced arrests, surveillance, and the systematic dismantling of independent media. For many, exile became the only way to continue their work and stay alive. globalvoices.org/2026/05/12/o...

An interview with Venezuelan visual artist and photographer Santiago Méndez, who has exhaustively documente queerness and Pride in Caracas for the last three years. Support our Gender Diversity #GVSpotlight with a donation: globalvoices.org/2026/05/12...

Don’t let global stories disappear. As funding dries up for independent journalism, you can help keep voices alive. Support our #GVSpotlight coverage with a donation! globalvoices.org/2026/05/12...

As India reflects on the media coverage during Operation Sindoor, questions remain over accountability and whether future crises will again feature recycled visuals, misidentified civilians, and narratives of fake conflicts.

This is part of the @globalvoices.org 🏳️‍🌈Gender Diversity Spotlight🏳️‍🌈 with stories about attacks on gender expression, the resistance to those attacks, and the joys of freedom, around the world. Read more: globalvoices.org/special/gend...

In 2022, Kenya’s Lekiji community secured legal rights to the land they had occupied for more than sixty years. What followed has reshaped how land, power, and gender operate within the community. #GVSpotlight globalvoices.org/2026/05/14/h...

In recent years, Muslim hardliners have been aggressive in pushing for the strict enforcement and integration of Islamic teachings in Malaysian governance. Support our Gender Diversity #GVSpotlight with a donation: globalvoices.org/2026/05/12/s... globalvoices.org/2026/06/23/m...

The global funding crisis has made it harder to report on these issues, even as that reporting is more and more vital. Your donation makes #GVSpotlight possible! globalvoices.org/2026/05/12...

Digital surveillance stops people from safely developing and expressing their identities, breeds trauma that can last for generations, and fractures the mind. By Gina Romero, UN Special Rapporteur for the rights to freedom of assembly and of association. globalvoices.org/2026/06/23/d...

"Real progress begins when women in these roles stop feeling symbolic. And when society finally grows up enough to understand that skill has never belonged to one gender in the first place."

From the outset, #GVSpotlight was conceived as a response to a gap: while global audiences are increasingly interested in stories from the Global South, the stories are often fragmented, simplified, or filtered through external perspectives. globalvoices.org/2026/05/16/a...

As more and more global leaders recognize climate change as one of the greatest threats to human rights, climate justice is emerging as a fundamental human right. #GVSpotlight globalvoices.org/2026/05/17/h...

"They are legitimizing hate and discrimination against a highly vulnerable group. Words from those in power carry weight and real-world consequences." Support our Gender Diversity #GVSpotlight with a donation: globalvoices.org/2026/05/12/s... globalvoices.org/2026/06/23/m...

Journalism evolves and so do we. Help our #GVSpotlight expand into podcasts, social media storytelling, newsletters, and more. globalvoices.org/2026/05/12...

✍️ New from #FeministJournalistFellowship by @nicolefroio.bsky.social w/ @globalvoices.org & Noor. Michelle Bolsonaro’s rise reveals how evangelical women are reshaping Brazil’s right-wing politics ahead of the 2026 elections how gender contradictions sit at the heart of the far right. Read now!

Global Voices conducted a face-to-face interview with a local LGBTQ+ activist, Peregrine (a pseudonym), who discussed the challenges they faced, their survival strategies, and their hopes for the future. Support #GVSpotlight! globalvoices.org/2026/05/12/s... globalvoices.org/2026/06/22/h...

"Special seats are not permanent solutions; they are transitional mechanisms to dismantle systemic barriers. Once equity is achieved, the need for such measures diminishes."

Many are boycotting the World Cup altogether due to the current US administration, price hikes, and discriminatory visa rules. Against this backdrop, we’re unearthing articles from our archive that discussed the world’s game. globalvoices.org/donate/

Shakira’s case is not occurring in isolation. Transgender refugees in the United States are exposed to ICE arbitrary detentions, discrimination and mistreatment, Donate to support our #GVSpotlight coverage: globalvoices.org/2026/05/12... globalvoices.org/2026/06/19...

With a personable approach to politics and a pastoral tone to her speeches, Michelle Bolsonaro juggles splits between her roles as her imprisoned husband’s caretaker and a political figure wannabe. globalvoices.org/2026/06/22/b...

Society trusts women to raise children, support households, hold families together emotionally but put a woman behind the controls of a plane and suddenly people become nervous. globalvoices.org/2026/06/19/p...

Support @globalvoices.org if you believe in localization of aid. There's no hope for true localization if we don't bring local actors and local stories to the global audience. Also, they do fabulous reporting globalvoices.org/2026/06/17/m...

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Bunk’Art Museums 1 and 2, located inside two atomic bunkers commissioned by Albania’s former communist dictator Enver Hoxha, educate visitors on Albania’s 20th century history and the victims of the totalitarian regime.

Despite comprising 50 percent of the population, women hold just 4.5 percent of seats in the National Assembly. Nigeria consistently ranks near the bottom globally and in Africa on women’s parliamentary representation.

Shakira Galíndez fled Venezuela due to her vulnerability as a trans woman. Today, she is in a men’s detention facility, exposed to further discrimination, violence and deportation.

Bunk’Art Museums 1 and 2, located inside two atomic bunkers commissioned by Albania’s former communist dictator Enver Hoxha, educate visitors on Albania’s 20th century history and the victims of the totalitarian regime.

Despite comprising 50% of the population, women hold just 4.5% of seats in the National Assembly. Nigeria consistently ranks near the bottom globally and in Africa on women’s parliamentary representation.

Many are boycotting the World Cup altogether due to the current US administration, price hikes, and discriminatory visa rules. Against this backdrop, we’re unearthing articles from GV’s archive that discussed the world’s game.

Shakira Galíndez fled Venezuela due to her vulnerability as a trans woman. Today, she is in a men’s detention facility, exposed to further discrimination, violence and deportation. Donate to support our #GVSpotlight coverage: globalvoices.org/2026/05/12...

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Amid grappling with various negative impacts of the climate crisis, including sargassum threats to mangroves, coral reef bleaching and hotter temperatures, Tobago has tried to find ways to pivot. #GVSpotlight globalvoices.org/2026/05/19/t...