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In Brazil, a new test reveals misidentified torture victim from the dictatorship period

In April, Brazil identified two men who were buried in a mass grave used the military regime

Written by Pública - Agência de jornalismo investigativo

Translated by Fernanda Canofre

13 May 2025

In São Luís, the city known as the Brazilian Jamaica, reggae is a local identity

The capital of Maranhão, a northeastern Brazilian state, turned the Caribbean music into a local cultural movement with a twist

Written by Fernanda Canofre

12 May 2025

An interview with Prava Baral on Nepali literature and empowering women’s voices

In Nepal, women writers often struggle to be taken seriously

Written by Sangita Swechcha

10 May 2025

Taiwan's Yilan Creole: Revitalizing the only Japanese-based creole language in the world

Yilan Creole is a mix of Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese

Written by Abdulrosheed Fadipe

8 May 2025

The creative is political: Five lessons from the case of a satirical activist in Kazakhstan

The case is a grim turning point for independent journalism and grassroots activism

Written by Vlast.kz

7 May 2025

Palestinian–Lebanese artist’s erotic comic ‘Titties’ chronicles the intimacies of modern dating

Nour Hifaoui lays bare the realities of women’s sexuality, confronting taboo, repression, and censorship with raw, witty candor.

Written by Raseef22

4 May 2025

May Day or Detention Day? Turkey marks Labor Day

The day was marked by heavy police presence and barricades as well as hundreds of detentions

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

2 May 2025

‘Make Moldova Great Again’: The mayor of Chișinău posted a photo with Donald Trump Jr.

This caused discussions in Moldova's social media space

Written by Daria Dergacheva

30 April 2025

Breaking down anti-Roma prejudice through poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Poetry has the power to reach people in a way that arguments and statistics often cannot

Written by Balkan Diskurs

28 April 2025

‘The war marks our writing, but it does not define it’: Interview with Ukrainian poet Iryna Shuvalova

Poetry can be an important tool of cultural diplomacy

Written by Filip Noubel

27 April 2025

Sinophone literature outside of China: Interview with writer Zhang Lijia

Authors need creative freedom to tell China's story well

Written by Filip Noubel

25 April 2025

Filipinos pay tribute to Pope Francis who once braved a raging storm to meet with disaster victims

The Philippines has the largest Catholic population in Asia

Written by Mong Palatino

25 April 2025

The Srebrenica Memorial Center’s fight against genocide deniers

Dozens of criminal complaints for genocide were submitted, but the Prosecutor’s Office has not processed a single one

Written by Balkan Diskurs

25 April 2025

Meet the majestic Akhal-Teke horses, the national pride of Turkmenistan

They are also known as ‘golden’ and ‘heavenly’ horses

Written by Nurbek Bekmurzaev

24 April 2025

How lemons became Tajikistan’s national brand

People who tried Tajik lemons tend to agree that they are the best in the world

Written by Nurbek Bekmurzaev

20 April 2025

The last masters of Afro-Colombian machete fencing fight to save their tradition

"Grima is an art of freedom and resistance," Colombian machete fencers say.

Written by Rowan Glass

19 April 2025

What does decolonising AI really mean? An interview with artist Ameera Kawash

Conceiving the digital as quintessentially scalable makes it colonial, commercial, and commodified by default.

Written by UntoldMag

18 April 2025

Documentary about first Soviet sexologist Igor Kon receives a festival prize

A film about scientific courage, moral responsibility, and inner freedom

Written by Daria Dergacheva

16 April 2025

Max Romeo, an urgent musical voice in Jamaica's turbulent 1970s, passes away at 80

His iconic album 'War Ina Babylon' reflected the political turbulence of 1970s Jamaica

Written by Emma Lewis

14 April 2025

Song directed at President Bola Tinubu's son banned in Nigeria

“They can ban the song, but they can't ban the message.”

Written by Pamela Ephraim

14 April 2025

Censored modern Chinese history resurfaces in online archive: Interview with China historian Ian Johnson

Our users are primarily Chinese or overseas Chinese communities

Written by Filip Noubel

14 April 2025

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