Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

What’s hot in…?

The Future Challenges blogger network spans the whole world. Our bloggers can provide an on-the-ground perspective on important developments and events in their regions. Future Challenges’ bloggers usually write about Global Issues based on the theme of Globalization. These posts usually aren’t breaking news, but they provide a local view on topics that are of utmost importance for their countries and regions.

Our new section “What’s hot in…?” is a new opportunity for our blogger network to publish their personal views on current developments in their regions: topics that are “hot” right now and may not necessarily tie into the themes of the current Global Issue.

What’s hot?

Standing against the Spanish Anti-Gag Law should be a European challenge

Written by Angelo Boccato

The US journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald recently wrote an article on The Intercept titled: “The greatest threat to free speech comes not from terrorism, but from those claiming to fight it”. In the UK, during the Queen’s Speech the new measures included in the Counter Terrorism Bill […]

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Dear Nigerians, #Change is more than a hashtag

Written by Chioma Agwuegbo

No, this isn’t a ‘Dear President-elect letter’; trust me I am as exhausted with them as the next man. I am not exhausted with the trekking (and cycling, and swimming, etc.) though, young men and women traversing between states on in various ways in honor of their preferred leader, whether […]

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Fighting for rights through the digital world: Méxicoleaks

Written by Kapell

From 1992 until 2015, at least 73 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Of these, 32 journalists have been confirmed as killed as a result of the stories they covered, however the reasons for the other murders are not yet known. What is even more striking is the fact that […]

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Anti-Founder takes Speech Therapy to the UN in Cambodia

Written by Leah Davies

Weh Yeoh is the founder of a project tackling extremely common communication and swallowing disorders in Cambodia, but to be frank, Weh rejects the trophy title and instead considers himself more of an ‘anti-founder’. “We’ve all seen founder’s syndrome – or founderitis – at play. Everyone remembers the Steve Jobs, the […]

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Nigeria: One year on, Chibok is still a sad story…

Written by Chioma Agwuegbo

I remember Monday the 14th of April 2014 like it was yesterday, waking up to the horrible news about yet another bomb blast, this time in the super busy Nyanya Motor Park. The explosion went off inside a car about 6.55am, the period with the highest traffic in the area as […]

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