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ID systems should allow for social inclusion and human rights Biometric details being captured in an Aadhaar enrolment centre in Kolkata, West Bengal, India (Biswarup Ganguly, CC-BY-3.0) This post was first published on Yoti as a part of Subhashish Panigrahi’s Digital Identity Fellowship. It has been edited for Global Voices. TheContinue Reading

Decades of xenophobic rhetoric has caused friction and uncertainty Night view of Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, a hill station in the northeastern part of India. Image from Flickr by Santanu Sen. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The recent attack on six boys from the Bengali community in Shillong has reignited theContinue Reading

“American Flag on Canada Day 2008″ by Antony Pranata is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Call it an American’s Canadian moment. Shortly after a remote work meeting at a local café in early February, Victoria Heath, an American living in Toronto, witnessed something extraordinary. A man approached the barista andContinue Reading

Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort. Photo (c): Tanya Kapitonova, used with permission. As events unfold in Belarus following presidential elections whose results are contested by the opposition and a large part of the population, Belarusian artists are speaking out to denounce state violence and express solidarity with protesters. Valzhyna Mort, aContinue Reading

New online content regulations prohibit certain topics without government approval An earthquake was felt in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on August 12, 2020. Photo by Chen Hualin, April 1, 2011, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0. When a major earthquake of 6.0 on the Richter scale shook coastal East AfricaContinue Reading

Photo of the Viktor Tsoi wall in central Minsk. The main writing says  “Ты знал, что будет плохо, но не знал, что так скоро” [You knew, all would be bad, but what you didn’t know is that it would happen so quickly], inspired by one of his songs. Photo byContinue Reading