Human Rights · August, 2025

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Human Rights · August, 2025

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A growing number of Nigerian women are upending traditional gender roles and forgoing parenthood

In a country where motherhood is considered a woman’s highest calling, many face backlash for this decision

Written by Minority Africa

30 August 2025

Angolan writer and former political prisoner republishes book on practical tools against dictatorships

Da Cruz published a new edition of ‘Tools to Destroy the Dictator and Avoid a New Dictatorship’

Written by Tirso Sitoe

Translated by Liam Anderson

29 August 2025

Global ‘8888’ protests highlight continuing resistance against junta rule in Myanmar

Protests honor the legacy of the August 1988 uprising

Written by Mong Palatino

28 August 2025

Cambodian workers face violence and threats amid escalating border tensions with Thailand

Around 500,000 Cambodian workers hold permits to work in Thailand

Written by Prachatai

26 August 2025

Zimbabwe's public debt servicing crisis leaves countless mothers grieving

‘I wish the government knew the devastating impact of not servicing public hospitals’

Written by Guest Contributor

25 August 2025

A living archive: 42 Indigenous languages in Bangladesh preserved under one online portal

‘Multiling.cloud is an important digital repository for the preservation and promotion of Bangladesh's multilingual diversity’

Written by Nurunnaby Chowdhury

Translated by Nurunnaby Chowdhury

24 August 2025

When digital democracy disappears, so does the power of the people

When civil society is pushed offline, what’s lost isn’t just voices, but history, memory, resistance, and possibility

Written by Muhammed Bello Buhari

23 August 2025

Pakistani medical degrees leave Kashmir graduates without practice rights in India

Doctors and medical students who receive their degrees through Pakistani universities can face bureaucratic hurdles and stigma

Written by Syed Ahmad Rufai

21 August 2025

How villagers in Kazakhstan fought against a Chinese cement plant and lost

A modern tale similar to the battle between David and Goliath, but with the underdog losing

Written by Nurbek Bekmurzaev, Brian Hioe

19 August 2025

‘I painted so prison wouldn’t swallow us whole’: An interview with Iranian journalist Vida Rabbani

‘When space and materials are scarce, your mind does the work of finding freedom’

Written by Omid Memarian

19 August 2025

The politics and people behind Balochistan, Pakistan’s internet shutdowns

The province faces annual blackouts during August due to a surge in militant activity

Written by Ramna Saeed, Nabeel Armaan

18 August 2025

The African countries offering citizenship to diasporans

Africa is not merely inviting its diaspora home but cultivating them as partners in a continental renaissance

Written by Pamela Ephraim

17 August 2025

Anonymous threats force owner of a controversial license plate to depart Hong Kong

The plate number, US8964, is a reference to the June 4 Tiananmen Square Massacre in China

Written by Oiwan Lam

16 August 2025

Pacific communities celebrate World Court’s Advisory Opinion on climate change

The court said states have legal obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Written by Mong Palatino

15 August 2025

Beyond the protests: Understanding Georgia's civic paradox

The Georgian experience offers lessons for democracies worldwide

Written by George Gotua

14 August 2025

Georgian journalist sentenced to two years in prison, sparking outrage at home and abroad

Mzia Amaghlobeli, founder of the independent news outlet Batumelebi, was convicted on August 6

Written by Mikheil Khachidze

12 August 2025

The killing of Anas al-Sharif and Western journalism’s moral collapse

More journalists have been killed in Gaza — with complete impunity — than in both World Wars combined

Written by Guest Contributor

12 August 2025

Workshop report: Design your road map for Angika Language digital activism in Bihar, India

The organizers arranged for a follow-up online workshop due to overwhelming enthusiasm from the participants

Written by Amrit Sufi

11 August 2025

Tyap Wikimedia User Group: Revitalizing Nigeria's Tyap language with digital tools and platforms

‘If the elders couldn't speak the language fluently as of 2007, imagine the current state of the language.’

Written by Abdulrosheed Fadipe

8 August 2025

Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure

Destroying seeds is destroying a people’s history and its future.

Written by Walid El Houri

7 August 2025

Withering roots: The waning health and resilience of the women left behind in Afghanistan

They are either hunted by the Taliban or confined to their homes without hope

Written by Davi Jacobs

6 August 2025

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