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As I read through the pieces Global Voices’ authors contributed to the August 2026 Spotlight series, “Indigenous Rights,” one common question stands out for me: Who gets to decide?
China’s only daughters were raised to pursue education, independence and opportunity. Now, those same qualities are increasingly seen as obstacles to marriage and motherhood.
The official documents China's new cotton-quality regulation show how cotton production is being integrated into a system of land transfer, labor mobilisation, political instruction, and digital surveillance.
China's rebranded “internet addiction” industry now helps families confine legally independent adult children, exposing how parental coercion survives through private institutions and weak enforcement.
A fictional parenting expert became a viral sensation after giving Chinese daughters a voice their parents were more willing to hear.
Feelings of statelessness happen when a people’s language, their culture, their memories, and future no longer have an equal place in the land they call home.
In this collaborative article, Global Voices dives into non-binary gender representation traditions from around the world, spanning China, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and more.
Global Voices conducted a face-to-face interview with a local LGBTQ+ activist, Peregrine (a pseudonym), who discussed the challenges they faced, their survival strategies, and their hopes for the future.
Blending personal reflection with the experiences of her peers, the writer explores the role of China's only daughters — raised as the center of the family under the defunct One-Child Policy.
A March 2026 study by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the African Digital Rights Network found that 11 African governments had collectively spent more than USD 2 billion on AI-powered surveillance systems.
In a region characterized by high levels of security governance and information control, the legal adjustments have significant consequences on the normalization and codification of political repression.
Tibetan communities sacrificed their pastoral lives and gave up their settlements for the national reserve. And now they are on the frontline, defending Asia's water tower against the climate crisis.
The core of the human rights approach to AI should aim at rebalancing the power among the corporate-state, the machine and the people through a decision-making framework.
On Chinese social media, eating disorders are reframed as discipline and beauty, sustained by coded language, visual culture, and online communities.
The circulating marketing narrative fuels a widespread anxiety that ordinary people would be left out of the job market and the technology-driven economy without mastering AI agents
