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20 September 2016
Lies, Damned Lies and the Health of Central Asian Presidents
The hype over Hillary Clinton's pneumonia was nothing. These guys spend their lives on the verge of death.
14 September 2016
Vladimir Putin and the Fake Brides of Red Square
Last holiday weekend, Moscow wasn't the only thing being celebrated: part of the spectacle appears to have been arranged to remind Russians that their president is a virile, red-blooded man.
11 September 2016
Egyptian Mothers Take On Female Genital Mutilation, Pinning Hopes on Younger Generations
Mothers are leading the fight against Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt, pinning their hopes on younger and future generations.
Kyrgyzstan's ‘Jailoos’ Are More Than Mere Mountain Meadows. They Are a Way of Life.
Welcome to the magical place where many people in the Central Asian country still spend their summers.
8 September 2016
India's Bihar Is Failing to Provide Adequate Healthcare to the Rural Poor
One rural health centre in the state is open so infrequently that residents have started using the facility as storage space.
4 September 2016
Jailed Iranian Nuclear Scientist Tweets About His New Conditional Freedom
After five years of imprisonment, Twitter -- the online platform that led his freedom campaign -- was how nuclear scientist Omid Kokabee first communicated with the world after his release.
A Poor Indian Farmer Carrying His Dead Wife Becomes the Symbol of an Inefficient Health System
"We live in a country where a journalist didn't help a poor man carry his wife's dead body to his home so that he could make [...] news on it."
21 August 2016
Nicaragua Has a Cervical Cancer Problem. A Coffee Farm Is Trying to Help.
Nicaragua has the highest cervical cancer death rate in the Americas —and women must face down societal pressure even to get treated.
7 August 2016
How the Zika Narrative About Puerto Rico Explains US Colonialism
Puerto Ricans work, love, live and struggle daily to resist not only the Zika virus, but something much more devastating: more than a century of colonialism and its many consequences.
5 August 2016
Trinidad & Tobago's Culture Was ‘Made Richer’ Thanks to Earl Crosby
"He was one of those people that you think would always be there — and then he's suddenly gone and this hole is created that can't be easily filled."
20 July 2016
A Golden Age for Cow Urine in India
"We boycott the cow slaughter industry for a year. The saved $ purchases cows. We separate the gold from the cow urine. Hapi economics."
1 July 2016
The Week That Was at Global Voices Podcast: Brexit, Brexit Everywhere
This week, we take you to the Caribbean, Brazil, Russia, Tanzania and Azerbaijan.
21 June 2016
Four Donors in India Rescued a Man in Bangladesh with a Rare Blood Group. Now What Were You Saying About Borders?
A 25-year-old man in Bangladesh with a rare blood group was going to die without blood donors. When they couldn't be found at home, four people in Mumbai stepped up.
3 June 2016
The Week That Was at Global Voices Podcast: Unsung Heroes
This week, we head to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Japan, Myanmar, Brazil and Syria.
2 June 2016
The One-Woman Army Fighting Thalassemia in Pakistan
"Being a thalassemia major I know how life gets hard at times. Arranging blood, patying for multiple tests, x-rays, scans & then paying huge amount for iron chelation medicines."
30 May 2016
Vietnam's Growing Number of Pet Lovers Are Challenging the Meat Industry's Treatment of Dogs
Việt Nam is still a long way from becoming a safe and friendly country to pets, but changes are happening.
27 May 2016
‘I Do Not Want Any Children to Develop Cancer Like Me’, a Fukushima Resident Says
An independent filmmaker interviewed a young woman from Fukushima Prefecture, ground zero of the March 2011 nuclear disaster, who has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
26 May 2016
Russian Media and Internet Users Debate the Ethics of Reporting on Teenage Suicide
Russian censors have blocked dozens of communities on social network VKontakte after an ethically murky media investigation accused these communities of pressuring teenage users to take their own lives.
25 May 2016
Health Crisis Provokes Protests in Medellín, Colombia
Demonstrators gathered in front of hospitals and health centers in Medellín last week, trying to pressure the authorities into addressing persistent and pervasive shortcomings in the local healthcare system.
20 May 2016
Trinidad and Tobago Reconsiders Marriage Act After Push to Recognise Child Marriage as Abuse
Trinidad and Tobago is a society of contradictions: the legal age of sexual consent was recently raised from 16 to 18, even as another law on marriage differs significantly.
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