Below is a searchable archive database of long-form “Voices from the South” articles back to 2012.
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Archive:
| Image | Title | Summary | Author | Organization | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Aid Reset: “Coherence” in International Development—For Whose Benefit? | Video: Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo (IBON International) spoke at a high-level UN meeting on international aid on the need for rules that prioritize peoples’ rights and structure change. | Africa Climate Justice Collective | Africa Climate Justice Collective | April 2025 |
 | African People’s Climate Justice Declaration | The African Climate Justice Collective (ACJC) hosted the first in-person African People’s Counter COP in Saly, Senegal, bringing together over 100 participants from 21 countries. | Africa Climate Justice Collective | Africa Climate Justice Collective | February 2025 |
 | The Role of the Escazú Agreement in Strengthening Environmental Democracy | Ciudadanía Inteligente in Chile writes on the Escazú Agreement, a landmark Latin American treaty that promotes environmental democracy in the region. | Colombina Schaeffer, Josefina Correa, and Sebastián Benfeld | Smart Citizen Foundation - FCI | January 2025 |
 | The Verde Island Passage: A Case for Nature’s Rights at the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal | Yolanda Esguerra (the Philippines) presents the case of a massive oil spill to the International Rights of Nature Tribunal. | Yolanda Esguerra | Global Alliance on the Rights of Nature - Asia Pacific (GARN) | September 2024 |
 | #RejectTheFinanceBill2024 in Kenya: A call for comprehensive economic justice | Karibu speaks with Rachael Mwikali (Kenya) about the protests, the bill’s link with international debt, how the civic space for civil society is shrinking, and the hopes for the way forward in Kenya. | Rachael Mwikali | Coalition for Grassroots Human Rights Defenders - Kenya | July 2024 |
 | Freedom for Palestine: Recreating the anti-apartheid global wave | Four voices from the global South (from Brazil, Sri Lanka, and Palestine) bring back reflections from their participation at the “Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine”. | Felipe Bianchi, Maria Luiza Freire, Deekshya Illangashinghe, and Mays Nassar | Kairos Palestine | May 2024 |
 | Protecting water rights in Nigeria: Here’s how they did it | Oludamilare Ola-Daniels (Nigeria) writes about the successful efforts of civil society groups to stop a controversial water bill in Nigeria. | Oludamilare Ola-Daniels | Ecumenical Water Network Nigeria | March 2024 |
 | What’s at stake at the WTO | “Our World is Not For Sale” lays out visions and demands of global civil society at the World Trade Organization Ministerial being held in Abu Dhabi in Feb 2024. | Deborah James | Our World Is Not For Sale | February 2024 |
 | Bridging the gap: The politics of “civic tech” in the global South | Octavio Del Favero (Chile) shares reflections on the politics of “civic tech” in the global South, and how it might and might not be a tool for deep democracy. | Octavio Del Favero Bannen | Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente | November 2023 |
 | Water is life, not for sale! Tourism debt: The case of Goa and Guanacaste | Tourism is often presented as an ideal economic activity that promotes the development of communities and which presents few liabilities. Yet advocates of a more just system have seen that the promise of tourism as an economically catalysing factor for local communities has failed. Rather than building up local communities, tourism … | Jessica Morán Jorquera | Tourism Alert and Action Forum (TAAF) | July 2023 |
 | Africa is not for sale! Rural women call for the AU to act on women’s rights | Rural Women’s Assembly highlight the cruciality of women’s rights and sustainability as building blocks for peaceful societies. Rural Women’s Assembly call for the African Union to act on matters relating to marginalisation and violence, as well as safeguarding their sovereignty and natural resources. | Namasiku Muyoba, Lungisa Huna, Mercia Andrews | RWA Southern African | June 2023 |
 | Solidarity-based principles: An alternative vision for the Mercosur-EU trade agreement | A broad coalition of civil society organizations from both South America and Europe outline an alternative vision for international trade agreements, especially related to the MERCOSUR-EU trade negotiations. They call on the EU and MERCOSUR to engage in a new relationship that is based on the principles of cooperation, solidarity, … | Bilaterals.org / S2B Network | Bilaterals.org / S2B Network | May 2023 |