Articles

"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."

"Every writer has three minefields waiting for them. Our duty, is to survive them. Everything else is choice, and it comes later. If I could reach out to that young me – lost, alone, and angry, I would say, breathe."

"On the morning of August 5, 2024, I woke to a silence that felt ominous. For weeks, Dhaka—the sprawling, restless capital of Bangladesh, home to more than 20 million people—had been alive with defiance. Students filled the streets chanting against the government, their voices punctuated by the crack of flash grenades and the sting of live rounds fired into crowds."