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These communities are experimenting with greener and fairer ways of living
Springhill Cohousing Community, Stroud. United Diversity/Flickr, CC BY-SA Frankie lives in a six-bedroom house on the outskirts of Leeds. She is her own landlord, but doesn’t own the house. Instead she is part of a co-operative housing group: together, they have been able to buy the house and then rentContinue Reading
This women’s college in Ghana leads the way on e-learning during the pandemic · Global Voices
St. Teresa’s College uses Telegram and WhatsApp to engage students Veronica Kissiedu Emefa, a student teacher at St. Teresa’s College in Hohoe, Ghana, Volta Region, seen in class before the pandemic. Now, most courses have gone online. Screenshot via a trailer for documentaries produced by Elio Stamm for Transforming TeacherContinue Reading
Coronavirus media coverage must avoid the mistakes of the Aids pandemic in Africa
As COVID-19 becomes the most intensely covered virus in history, there are important lessons to be drawn from the media’s reporting of another global pandemic: HIV/Aids. Whose lives the world deems worthy of saving depends, at least partly, on the stories that journalists tell. This was one of the findingsContinue Reading
Alzheimer’s disease: protective gene uncovered in human cell model – bringing promise for new drug discoveries
Our method could someday potentially detect the disease before it starts developing in a person's brain. Robert Kneschke/ Shutterstock Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. While researchers have identified a number of risk factors that are linked toContinue Reading
Authorities’ response to social unrest in Trinidad & Tobago raises debate about police power and public trust · Global Voices
“We must invest in — not alienate — underserved and vulnerable communities” Riot police at the St. James Amphitheatre in Trinidad during the Drummit2Summit protests on April 18, 2009. Photo by Georgia Popplewell on Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. After officers from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) shot andContinue Reading
Russia and the Gulag: Putin is fighting for state control over how Soviet horrors are remembered
Army soldiers digging mass graves to try and show that the state wasn’t responsible for the dead. A historian who vehemently disagrees behind bars on charges that many believe are false. Organisations that support him being attacked by an omnipotent power. It might sound like some movie, but this isContinue Reading
One vaccine to beat COVID, Sars, Mers and common cold – possible?
PhotobyTawat/Shutterstock SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – belongs to the family of betacoronaviruses that cause everything from the common cold to Mers (which kills about one in three people infected). Despite causing a wide range of symptoms, these viruses all share similarities. If they’re similar enough, could oneContinue Reading
‘African art has nourished all civilizations’: A Conversation with Algerian artist Rachid Koraichi · Global Voices
Rachid Koraichi solo exhibition, 2016. Credit: Aicon Gallery Paris-based Algerian artist Rachid Koraichi, 73, is known around the world for his use of numbers, letters, mystical symbols and signs in his artworks. He is also an outspoken critic of the challenges people regularly face in the Middle East and NorthContinue Reading
The state of LGBTQI+ rights in India: An interview with India Supreme Court Advocate Saurabh Kirpal · Global Voices
“There is, however, a very long way to go” Image via Pexels by Sachin Bharti. Used under a Pexels License. On September 6, 2018, India’s Supreme Court ruled that consensual homosexual acts would no longer constitute a crime. The historic move reversed Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which wasContinue Reading
The Uyghur Meshrep: A traditional community gathering censored in China · Global Voices
Screenshot from a YouTube video featuring a meshrep in Almaty. The Uyghurs, a Turkic nation of over 25 million people who live across Central Asia, have a long history and a rich cultural heritage that combines elements of nomadism and sedentarism, pre-Islamic, Sufi, and Muslim spiritual traditions. One component ofContinue Reading