In Ghana, a fight for civil rights for LGBTQ people is playing out largely online through social media and coalescing around the hashtag #KillTheBill. After the raid of a queer community space in Accra and the arrest of 21 people in Ho, Volta Region in 2021, it became increasingly clear …
We all must have heard of Wikileaks at some point in life. Julian Assange, the founder, has been the talk of the world since his website leaked huge US government’s secrets, showing their actions of violation of human rights, together with Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. These people got criminal …
A picture in Bangladesh. Like in the romantic painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, one Rohingya boy stands on a hillock above the bamboo and tarpaulin shelters and dirt paths of a refugee camp. The kid, dressed with the traditional longyi, points to the mountains on the horizon where …
HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CAN BRING SOCIAL CHANGE: THE SWEDISH INITIATIVE EQUALISTERS A very interesting social media- based initiative devoted to social change arose in Sweden in 2010. Its name was Rättviseförmedligen, Equalisters in English. It was a non-profit foundation and digital movement aiming to create a more democratic society by …
