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?

The Spanish abortion draft fell under voting intentions and feminist groups pressure

Written by Esther Ortiz

Every 28th of September women health advocates claim for world changes in the International Day of Decriminalization of Abortion. This year in Spain more than 3,000 people gathered to celebrate after having won the battle against the Ministry of Justice with the drop of an abortion bill estimated as […]

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What Malala’s Nobel Peace Prize Means for Pakistan and the World

Written by Usama Khilji

Malala Yousufzai first gained recognition in 2008 at age 11 when she took to the Press Club in Peshawar against the Taliban banning girls’ education in the Swat valley. She soon started writing an anonymous blog for the BBC as Gul Makai, chronicling the feelings of a young girl […]

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Spanish Indignados: alive and ready to run in the elections

Written by Esther Ortiz

The 2008 financial collapse doubtlessly meant a turning point for Spain according to different perspectives. However, the most outstanding one could be the country’s political transformation shifting from its two-party system established since the 1978’s democratic transition with a decision-making process ruled by economic and political elites, to the […]

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What’s Hot in Ghana: Remembering Nkrumah’s Legacy Through Volunteerism

Written by Charles Mensah

Sarah Bernhardt once said, ”legends remain victorious in spite of history”. She couldn’t have said it better. In fact, legends still remain with us even today. That can be said of Ghana’s founder, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, a scholar, a president, unionist, revolutionist and a gallant soldier of African dignity. Last […]

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What’s Hot in Nigeria: How Close is Nigeria in Providing Safe Water?

Written by Chioma Agwuegbo

If we got paid for all the times we heard ‘water is life’, we probably would not need it anymore; we’d be drinking, bathing, and doing everything else with gold – that’s how wealthy we’d be. How important is this most vital of natural resources? On the 28th of July […]

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