Amplifying brave,
young voices worldwide

"Gen Z in Nepal toppled the government through the power of social media, but Sonia Awale asks whether they know how to permanently change the status quo."

"Michael Deibert talks to youth groups in Haiti struggling for a voice amid societal breakdown for Index on Censorship's Winter 2025 Magazine Issue, Gen Z is revolting."

"Morocco’s youth have erupted against a system that invests in spectacle while its citizens die in silence"

"In Hungary, Gen Z have only ever known one prime minister: Viktor Orbán. They are now exercising their freedom of expression. And it’s not just at music festivals."

"Why do Palestinians keep writing? Why do we keep documenting, exposing, speaking, when we know it may not lead to results, at least not in the near future? Is it belief that freedom will someday come? Or the faith that truth should never be hidden? Belief in humanity beyond governments?"

"A letter by Chloe Cheung from Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Born and raised in Hong Kong, she joined the city’s pro-democracy movement at 14 during the 2019 protests, before going into self-exile in 2020. In Dec. 24, 2024, the Hong Kong authorities placed a HK$1 million bounty on her because of her U.K. activism."

"29 year-old Turkish journalist Furkan Karabay was released a month ago, after 201 days in solitary confinement with trumped charges related to his journalistic work. He was rearrested last week and placed under house arrest. He responded with a new short story."

"When I became a mother, I did not imagine seeing my child's smile would open portal-like, into a nonstop reel of rushed obituaries to young children in Gaza, or horrifying clips of teenagers in their Levi’s being marched out of their high schools or homes, tackled to the ground in the streets of USA by masked agents."

"We do need one another - even when we disagree. We have to acknowledge our sameness... Because in just a few weeks' time, it's as if global tectonic plates shifted under our feet and we've gone past a point of no return."

"Palestinian-Ukrainian peace activist and author Zoya Miari shares her experience attending the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 and how it reminded her of the impact we can have on the world around us."

"Following up on our Spotlight of Americas, we asked our Regional Editor, Brooklyn-based Venezuelan writer Carlos Egaña for his reading recommendations with brief reasons why."