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The shrinking space for journalistic rights and freedoms in Palestine

28th July 2021 Equal Times 0

“It was a Saturday, and the street was full of demonstrators. We were filming the events from a corner,” recalls Shatha Hammad, a 28-year-old Palestinian […]

In the United States, the digital giants are baring their claws against emerging support for trade unions

17th June 2021 Equal Times 0

A little grey letterbox could lead to huge changes for employees at Amazon’s Bessemer warehouse in Alabama. On 9 April, workers at the site overwhelmingly voted […]

How Egypt silences popular and dissident music

9th June 2020 Equal Times 0

For Faris Hemida, a well-known singer of Egypt’s wildly popular musical style known as mahraganat (‘festivals’ in Arabic), 16 February 2020 did not go well. […]

Is there a glimmer of hope for Vietnamese workers?

17th February 2020 Equal Times 0

Last November, the Vietnamese National Assembly took a long-awaited decision on a demand that came from both inside and outside the country: to authorise independent […]

Egypt is using the Africa Cup of Nations as an opportunity to test surveillance technologies on politically conscious fans

15th July 2019 Equal Times 0

On 27 June, Alaa Mubarak, son of the former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, revealed on his Twitter account that the organisers of the Africa Cup of Nations […]

“Challenging power isn’t polite and beautiful”: Dr Stella Nyanzi and the right to impolite in Uganda

1st July 2019 Equal Times 0

To mark her 45th birthday on 16 June 2019, Ugandan academic and activist Dr Stella Nyanzi released 45 poems from the Luzira Maximum Security Prison, […]

Can Zimbabwe’s high-stakes election usher in a new dawn for its media?

31st July 2018 Equal Times 0

Watching the nightly news on Zimbabwe’s state broadcaster, ZBC, in the run-up to the country’s historic elections on 30 July is a surreal experience. There’s […]

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