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Citizen Media · December, 2025

Stories about Citizen Media from December, 2025

Year in Review: How the Caribbean survived 2025

The year's ups and downs strengthened the region's muscles

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

30 December 2025

Prospect and implications of other effective area-based conservation measures in indigenous Chepang landscape in Nepal

The stakeholders should be clearly informed and meaningfully engaged with the OECM framework before implementation

Written by Biswash Chepang

30 December 2025

Senegal: Where women’s bodies belong to everyone but themselves

The religious argument is often used to justify control over women

Written by Bowel Diop

Translated by Laura

27 December 2025

Mass shooting at Hanukkah celebration at Australia’s Bondi Beach shows the best and worst of humanity

In Australia, 15 killed and dozens injured by father and son attackers

Written by Kevin Rennie

23 December 2025

Sixteen days of activism amid the rise of digital harm across Africa

Online harm is shaping public life as strongly as offline violence

Written by Cecilia Maundu

23 December 2025

Social networks fuel youth mobilization on Argentina’s streets

Protests against government cuts, which began in 2024, are now reflecting other concerns for Generation Z

Written by Forus

18 December 2025

At COP30, civil society stepped into real, not symbolic, leadership

An observer who attended COP30 in Belém, Brazil, shares her perspective on the conference

Written by Isabela Carvalho

Translated by Isabela Carvalho

15 December 2025

Words across worlds: Moharaj Sharma on language, culture, and belonging in Nepal

Sharma is a poet, journalist, and documentarian amplifying Nepali literature and diaspora voices

Written by Sangita Swechcha

15 December 2025

What’s behind the growing anti-immigrant discourse around stateless Rohingya in India

The conflation of ‘Bangladeshi Rohingya’ serves as a foundation for broader anti-Bangladesh discourse in India

Written by Zulker Naeen

11 December 2025

Green dignity and public visibility: GIA’s intersectional approach to transgender rights and climate justice in Pakistan

‘Climate Justice is Transgender Justice. Stop sidelining them and start centering them as agents of change’

Written by Rezwan

9 December 2025

Georgia marks a year of protests

Georgia's no stranger to protests, but the past year marked an unprecedented period of sustained mobilisation

Written by OC Media

7 December 2025

When the judge meets the algorithm: AI tools entering India’s courts

Millions of cases are pending in India; will AI and future technologies help speed things up?

Written by Sakkcham Singh Parmaar

5 December 2025

Stuck between survival and modesty: How an earthquake revealed Bangladesh’s gender fault line

An earthquake exposed Bangladesh’s deeper rupture: a society policing women’s bodies even in moments of disaster

Written by Abhimanyu Bandyopadhyay

3 December 2025

Pakistani travellers with valid visas being quietly offloaded at airports in ‘silent ban’

A tightening state grip on Pakistan’s airports has turned lawful travel into a gamble

Written by Syed Salman Mehdi

2 December 2025

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