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Climate Crisis
Turkey's Night of the Living Sea Snot: Global Heating, Industrial Pollution Endanger Marmara Sea

Turkey’s Night of the Living Sea Snot: Global Heating, Industrial Pollution Endanger Marmara Sea

Global Voices

By Doga Celik | – ( GlobalVoices.org ) – The Marmara Sea is a pristine body of water, extending from the Dardanelles Strait to the Bosphorus. Since late May, the Marmara sea has been making international headlines for an unfortunate reason. ‘Sea snot’ and its causes A slimy, organic foam named “sea snot”, officially known […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli settlers’ aggressive takeover of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem is part of a decades-long struggle

Israeli settlers’ aggressive takeover of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem is part of a decades-long struggle

Global Voices

Written byأيمن حسونة Translated byYasmeen Omera ( GlobalVoices.org) – “If I don’t steal your house, someone else will.” This is how an Israeli settler called “Yakob” responded to the Jerusalemite journalist Muna ElKurd when she asked him to leave the garden of her home in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. shows Israeli settler trying to take […]

Joe Biden
Syria needs Long-Term Housing for the Neediest, and the US needs to Stop Blocking it

Syria needs Long-Term Housing for the Neediest, and the US needs to Stop Blocking it

Global Voices

By Hany Al Banna | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – March 15, 2021, will mark a grim milestone—the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the popular uprising that led to the civil war still engulfing Syria. As we all grapple with the deadly crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic that has gripped the world’s […]

censorship
Why Google's Plans for a Saudi-Based Cloud are So Dangerous: Riyadh may demand Private Customer Data

Why Google’s Plans for a Saudi-Based Cloud are So Dangerous: Riyadh may demand Private Customer Data

Global Voices

By Dahlia Kholaif | – ( Global Voices ) – Tech giant Google plans to establish a new Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Access Now, a nongovernmental digital rights organization, has raised alarm and requested the immediate halting of the plan, referring to the country’s “appalling human rights record.” The organization issued a statement […]

Feminism
Saudi women’s activist Loujain al-Hathloul released and tweeting

Saudi women’s activist Loujain al-Hathloul released and tweeting

Global Voices

She remains restrained by a travel ban and limits on public appearances

Israel/ Palestine
Protests mount over Israeli medical apartheid toward Palestine during pandemic"

Protests mount over Israeli medical apartheid toward Palestine during pandemic”

Global Voices

Israel’s rapid vaccine rollout leaves out Palestinian population

Bashar al-Assad
Will Biden Wind down the Syria War or keep it Bubbling?

Will Biden Wind down the Syria War or keep it Bubbling?

Global Voices

Incoming US administration won’t take leaps in Syria

Tunisia
Will Tunisia, the only Success of the Arab Spring, be Ruined by a Police Protection Bill?

Will Tunisia, the only Success of the Arab Spring, be Ruined by a Police Protection Bill?

Global Voices

By Rima Sghaier | – ( Global Voices ) – As the Tunisian parliament considers a controversial police protection bill, protests erupted in the city of Bardo to oppose it. On October 6 and 8, human rights groups and a youth-led citizen movement dubbed Hasebhom (translated as “hold them to account”) rallied outside the parliament […]

Feminism
Can Turkey’s Feminists prevent withdrawal in name of “Family Values” from Treaty banning Violence against Women?

Can Turkey’s Feminists prevent withdrawal in name of “Family Values” from Treaty banning Violence against Women?

Global Voices

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – (GlobalVoices.org ) – A website called Anit Sayac (Turkish for “monument tracker”) indicates the number “276” on its home page at the time of writing this story. It represents the number of women who were murdered in domestic violence attacks in Turkey—just in 2020. The counter is updated every day. […]

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