Global Voices

What Is Global Voices?

Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, and human rights activists. Together, we leverage the power of the internet to tell stories that build understanding across borders. How do we do this?

• Report: Our multilingual newsroom team reports on people whose voices and experiences are rarely seen in mainstream media.
• Translate: Our Lingua volunteers make our stories available in dozens of languages to ensure that language is not a barrier to understanding.
• Defend: Our Advox team advocates for free speech online, paying special attention to legal, technical and physical threats to people using the internet to speak out in the public interest.
• Empower: Rising Voices provides training and mentorship to local underrepresented communities who want to tell their own stories using participatory media tools.

Except in the case of specially commissioned projects, Global Voices does not compensate writers or translators financially. Global Voices typically runs one or two active special projects at a time. Active projects include our Civic Media Observatory and our ongoing Translation Services project, which offers translation work to like-minded organizations for a fee.

Community

In addition to writing and translating stories, our community of volunteer contributors provides a breadth of local knowledge and connect Global Voices with like-minded initiatives around the world.