What Were Global Voices’ Readers up to Last Week? · Global Voices
L. Finch

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At Global Voices, our community researches, writes, edits, and translates stories with a mission to support human rights and build bridges of understanding across countries, cultures, and languages.
We don't publish just to grab clicks or follow a news trend. We do, however, like to keep track of the ways in which our hard work has impact around the world.
To that end, one useful metric is how readers respond to our stories and translations. So let's take a look at who our readers were and what caught their attention during the week of March 26-April 1, 2018.
Last week, our stories and translations attracted readers from 215 countries! The top 20 countries represented across all of Global Voices’ sites were:
1. United States
2. Brazil
3. Peru
4. France
5. Japan
6. United Kingdom
7. Spain
8. Mexico
9. Canada
10. Italy
11. Germany
12. Colombia
13. Taiwan
14. India
15. Russia
16. Bangladesh
17. Argentina
18. Indonesia
19. Madagascar
20. Tanzania
But that's only a small slice of the diversity of our readership. Let's use the True Random Number Generator from Random.org and take a look at a few other countries on the list:
162. French Guiana
44. South Korea
68. El Salvador
114. Georgia
36. Hong Kong
The English-language site is where the majority of original content is first published at Global Voices. The top five most-read stories of last week were:
1. A Romanian in the UK: On the Thin Line Between ‘Undesirable Migrant’ and ‘Welcomed Contributor’
2. Netizen Report: Ethiopia Arrests Leading Journalists and Activists in ‘State of Emergency’
3. A Muslim Scholar Seeks to Link Israel and Indonesia Through the Hebrew Language
4. ‘They Beat Me Everyday With an Electric Cable…They Smashed My Head Into the Walls’
5. Highly Trained and Educated, Some Foreign-Born Doctors Still Can’t Practice Medicine in the US
Lingua is a project that translates Global Voices stories into languages other than English. There are about 30 active Lingua sites. Below is last week's most-read story or translation on each active language site.