In their reports, government-aligned media have portrayed all arrested journalists, civic activists, and rights defenders as criminals, in line with the official narrative.

I’m not only speaking of social peace, but inner peace: the freedom to be yourself. Especially for a woman — an African woman, a Black woman.” ...

In Togo’s rural communities, women bear much of the family responsibilities. However, they remain active in their communities’ development despite these socio-cultural pressures.

"She remains the single figure Myanmar’s military leaders fear most. No other politician has faced such repeated arrests, ...

Hausa, which is spoken by almost 50 percent of the population, has been named the official language of Niger, replacing ...

As Yugoslavia’s mainstream society grew increasingly patriarchal during the 1980s, some of the country's rock bands would routinely perform songs that spoke about same-sex love.

The narratives describe a tense and uncertain political transition, with the interim government aiming for reforms before ...

The United States Agency for International Development (), founded after the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act, has been leading US aid efforts in several South Asian countries for decades.However, an ...

BL is a subversive genre for women to explore their sexuality beyond gender stereotypes, as its relationships eschew ...

I started to realize that, actually, on some level, it made me feel quite terrible and quite alienated. And my own country ...

"She’s been hit from all directions. You only attack journalists when truth is your enemy, and that's what happened to ...

It's important to make young people feel that Indigenous languages is a cool thing, rather than just another task to study.