Digital Activism · July, 2021

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Digital Activism · July, 2021

Stories about Digital Activism from July, 2021

Who’s trying to silence the fearless voice of Sri Lankan journalist Tharindu Jayawardhana?

Threats followed reporting on probe into the 2019 Easter Sunday killings

Written by GroundViews

31 July 2021

Weak public consultation approach draws questions about plans to ‘revitalise’ beloved Trinidad park

'True consultation involves stakeholder participation'

Written by Flora Thomas

31 July 2021

Russian internet censor blocks Team Navalny websites

The state designated Navalny’s movement and campaign networks as “extremist organizations”

Written by Tanya Lokot

26 July 2021

Global investigation reveals Pegasus Project identified in Azerbaijan and elsewhere

Authorities in Azerbaijan have refrained from making any statements

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

23 July 2021

Pegasus spyware revelation indicates Indian state snooping on journalists, activists and politicians

The software secretly gathers data from a user's phone/computer

Written by Subhashish Panigrahi

23 July 2021

The “ticket to happy life” politics of Indian marriages in the context of dowry-related violence

"We need to reform the prevailing marriage system"

Written by Keerthana Ram

23 July 2021

Devices of journalists, government officials in Kazakhstan hacked and spied on

Spyware targets journalists, activists, and government officials in Kazakhstan.

Written by Paolo Sorbello

22 July 2021

Team 29, Russia's most prominent legal defense group, shuts down under state pressure

The organisation has long been a thorn in Kremlin's side

Written by Tanya Lokot

21 July 2021

State escalates attacks on media freedom and civil society in Belarus

Lukashenka's crackdown on media and civil society reached unprecedented scale

Written by Tanya Lokot

20 July 2021

Caribbean Tree Planting Week: A region-wide coalition gets serious about climate change action

Participants have planted 1,517,463 trees between February 2020 and June 2021

Written by Emma Lewis

17 July 2021

WATCH: Indigenous+Digital: How young people are revitalizing their native languages on the internet

Missed the live stream of the July 13 Global Voices Insights webinar about the role of young people in Indigenous language revitalization? Here's a replay.

Written by Eduardo Avila

16 July 2021

From Cuba, with VPN

There is evidence Cuba blocked WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal because of protests

Written by Periodismo de Barrio

Translated by Anthony Sutterman

15 July 2021

New application maps accessibility of Ukrainian urban public spaces

Accessible urban infrastructure serves everyone, not just the differently abled

Written by Tanya Lokot

10 July 2021

A decade after the first siege, Assad's regime besieges Daraa, the cradle of the Syrian Revolution

In retaliation for rejecting May's presidential election, a siege began on June 25

Written by Mousa Mohamed - موسى محمد

Translated by Ayat Qadomee

10 July 2021

By gathering knowledge, volunteers step in to save and revive the Macedonian music industry

A group of enthusiasts has created a public archive of Macedonian music

Written by Filip Stojanovski

9 July 2021

Developers say the reef at St. Vincent's Indian Bay is dead. These photos say otherwise

'Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

8 July 2021

Tintin in Bangladesh…. only in the artist's imagination!

He recreated his favourite characters in the context of homeland!

Written by পান্থ রহমান রেজা (Pantha)

Translated by Rezwan

8 July 2021

LIVE on July 13: Indigenous+Digital: How young people are revitalizing their native languages on the internet

The session will be live streamed on Zoom (registration required) and YouTube

Written by Eduardo Avila

7 July 2021

Humanities researchers have become ‘enemies of the nation’ in Brazil, says anthropologist

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado left Brazil due to the growing devaluation of science

Written by Talita Fernandes

Translated by Edgar Velozo

7 July 2021

Social media companies could be liable for user-generated content in India

Twitter has failed to comply to India's new IT Rules

Written by Subhashish Panigrahi

5 July 2021

Founder of Egypt's Speak Up: ‘Sexual harassment is a daily fight, but change is happening’

'It's an ongoing fight that we confront every single day'

Written by Dahlia Kholaif

3 July 2021

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