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Burkina Faso records sharp decline in malaria cases and deaths
Why Bangladesh and India face a difficult reset
New momentum towards peace in Cyprus?
Debt repayments in low- and middle-income countries far exceed education spending
Hunger deepens in northern Nigeria
The end of a trend? The Global South and the Japanese media
EU Supreme Court ruling: Publishing videos from Russian broadcasters is illegal
Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger: Formal withdrawal from the ICC
CPJ reaffirms journalist definition after Gaza database review dispute
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Freedom of expression and assembly in Europe threatened by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The European Union (EU) portrays itself as a leading champion of human rights and the rule of law, both within its borders and around the world. However, the responses of EU member states to the escalation of the Israel–Palestine conflict in October 2023 make it clear...
The future of the Sudan conflict
In Sudan, the armed conflict that broke out in April 2023 has expanded, triggering one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), more than 18,500 deaths were recorded between April 2023 and June...
What’s troubling Antarctica?
In 2023, the world’s largest iceberg in Antarctica began to drift away from the continent due to melting (※1). This iceberg boasts an area of 4,000 square km, which is about 1.5 times the size of Luxembourg. This event is due to the rapid rise in temperatures in...
The Military-Industrial Complex: The Enormous Power Not Apparent in Media Coverage
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. In this world that is armed, it is not only money that is being consumed. It...
ODA: The Reality and Its Problems
Among the topics often raised in discussions on how to address international issues is “Official Development Assistance,” commonly known as ODA (Official Development Assistance). ODA almost always comes up when debating responses to conflicts, disaster damage, or...
The Threat of Climate Change: What Does Post-COVID Coverage Look Like?
In July 2023, according to data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction, the Earth’s average temperature reached 17.23 degrees Celsius, setting the highest temperature in at least the past 100,000 years on record. The Paris Agreement, concluded in...
Nuclear Testing in the Pacific Ocean
In 2017, in the month of July, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted at the UN General Assembly with the support of 122 countries. Nuclear weapons are sometimes called “indiscriminate weapons of mass killing” and can kill hundreds of thousands...
Haiti: The Absence of Government and Future Prospects
Haiti and its people are currently facing a crisis in every humanitarian, political, economic, and security dimension. With political instability and state governance collapsing, gangs and vigilante groups have risen and now occupy much of the nation’s capital. A food...
Which Way Does the Watchdog Face? International Reporting and Elites
Many things happen around the world. However, most of them are only reported in fragments, and the world visible through the news is very limited. So how does this unreported world come into being? On what basis do the media decide whether to report something? There...
Canadian Mining Companies: Behind Their Global Expansion
On 2022/4/16, at the Perkoa mine in Burkina Faso in West Africa, 8 mine workers were trapped by flooding and, after just under two months of searching, an incident occurred in which all 8 were found dead. They had been unable to reach a refuge chamber inside the mine....
The Super Rich: Questioning Their Very Existence
In 2021/6, the U.S. news organization ProPublica (ProPublica) published a shocking investigation into the country’s ultra-wealthy. According to these findings, prominent billionaires such as Elon Musk, CEO of the space company SpaceX (SpaceX) and the electric vehicle...
Madagascar: Mounting Challenges
In May 2021, it became clear that about 1.14 million people in Madagascar were facing severe food shortages. The south of the country is experiencing the most severe drought in 40 years, and people are surviving by eating things like leaves and even soil. Why has...
Tax Havens and the Islands Around the Caribbean
US$1.3 trillion. This is the total amount of profit that companies worldwide are shifting to tax havens. The figure was estimated by the UK-based NGO tackling tax haven issues, the Tax Justice Network (Tax Justice Network). Corporate tax is levied on company profits,...
Sex and Reproduction: Can Women Make Their Own Choices?
Deciding for oneself whether to have children, and if so when and how many. Leading a safe sex life free from the risk of sexually transmitted infections and from violence or coercion. Becoming pregnant and giving birth safely. Astonishing data has revealed that only...
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Video: Top 10 Undercovered World News Stories of 2025
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Top 10 Undercovered World News Stories of 2025
In 2025 as well, only a limited set of international stories about the world received major attention in Japanese news coverage. For example, the daily news closely followed the moves of Donald Trump, who again took office as U.S. president in January 2025. The...
Follow-up: What became of the Top 10 Undercovered World News Stories of 2024
Since 2018, GNV has announced the "Top 10 Hidden News of the World" every December. This project ranks events that, despite having a major impact on many people and on regional and global systems and structures, were barely or not at all reported by Japan’s major...
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The top 10 undercovered world news stories of 2024
In 2024, too, Japanese international news coverage largely focused on only a limited subset of stories about the world. For example, the U.S. presidential election, with voting held in November 2024, dominated international coverage from January and drew major...
Update: What happened to 2023’s top 10 undercovered world news stories?
Since 2018, every December GNV has announced the Top 10 Underreported World News. It is a project that ranks events which, despite having a major impact on many people and on regional and global systems and conditions, were scarcely or not at all covered by Japan’s...
Video: Top 10 undercovered world news stories of 2023
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Top 10 undercovered world news stories of 2023
In 2023 as well, there was a large gap between topics the media focused on and those it did not. Around the world, many events that had major impacts on many people, countries, and even the world as a whole went largely unreported—or not reported at all—by Japanese...
Video: The Top 10 Underreported World News Stories of 2022
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Top 10 Hidden World News Stories of 2022
In 2022 as well, various events and changes occurred across the world’s 6 continents. Even amid that, the events that Japanese media focused on were limited. The event that drew the greatest attention in international reporting was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which...
Video: Top 10 Underreported World News Stories of 2021
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Top 10 Underreported Global News Stories of 2021
As in 2020, coverage of the novel coronavirus was conspicuous (Note 1) in international news within Japan in 2021 as well. The emergence of this virus and responses to it have created various challenges and problems, and have even exacerbated problems faced by the...
Video: The Top 10 Under-the-Radar World News Stories of 2020
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Top 10 Underreported World News Stories of 2020
In 2020, when the whole world was under threat from the novel coronavirus, international reporting was novel-coronavirus-only. But is such coverage sufficient to understand the world comprehensively? It is true that the novel coronavirus infected and killed many...
Top 10 Underreported Global News Stories of 2019
As 2019 draws to a close, it is time for media outlets to look back at the news that defined the year. At GNV, we have also been releasing, since 2018, the annual ranking “10 Hidden Global Stories,” in which the top spot for 2018 went to the reforms in Ethiopia....
Top 10 Under-the-Radar World News Stories of 2018
Only a few days remain in 2018. At year’s end, newspapers and TV news programs in Japan annually release rankings such as the year’s top 10 domestic and international stories. What kinds of events will appear in each outlet’s 2018 rankings of international news? The...
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Debt repayments in low- and middle-income countries far exceed education spending
GNV News, 14 July 2026 According to a report released on 10 July 2026 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in 2025 the amount of debt repayment exceeded public spending on education in 113 low- and middle-income countries....
Why do acid attacks on women in Pakistan continue?
GNV News, 1 July 2026 Gender-based violence remains a serious global issue. Among such violence, acid attacks (assaults involving the throwing of acid) against women can be described as a cruel form of violence that destroys not only the victim’s body but also their...
Sri Lanka, a new target for cyber crime organizations
GNV News, 19 June 2026 In response to intensified crackdowns in Southeast Asia, particularly Cambodia, there are reports that Chinese criminal organizations are relocating their scamming bases to Sri Lanka. As a result, Sri Lanka’s newly established Cyber Crime...
The population infected with trachoma reaches a record low
GNV News, February 27, 2026 The number of people worldwide at risk of trachoma infection has fallen below 100 million for the first time since statistics began. Trachoma is an eye disease caused by a microorganism called Chlamydia trachomatis and is the leading cause...
Australia reaches Its first treaty with indigenous peoples
GNV News, November 16, 2025 On November 13, 2025, Australia’s first formal treaty between First Peoples (Note 1) and a state government was concluded. Until now, Australia had no treaties between First Peoples and the government, and there had been no legal basis for...
Medicine and health in Papua New Guinea
In May 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that trachoma had been eliminated in Papua New Guinea. Trachoma is an eye infection caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, and repeated infection can lead to blindness. This news marks progress on...
Debt repayments in low- and middle-income countries far exceed education spending
GNV News, 14 July 2026 According to a report released on 10 July 2026 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in 2025 the amount of debt repayment exceeded public spending on education in 113 low- and middle-income countries....
Hunger deepens in northern Nigeria
On July 2, 2026, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that more than 17 million people in nine northern states of Nigeria are affected by conflict and facing food conditions at crisis, emergency, or catastrophic famine levels. Hunger is particularly...
Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger: Formal withdrawal from the ICC
GNV News, 5 July 2026 In June 2026, three countries in the Central Sahel region—Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger—formally notified the UN Secretary-General of their withdrawal from the Rome Statute, which is the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC)....
CPJ reaffirms journalist definition after Gaza database review dispute
The board of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based nonprofit that documents press freedom violations worldwide, voted on July 1, 2026, to reaffirm its existing definition of a journalist following a dispute over the organization’s review of its...
Fears of mass atrocities grow in Sudan’s El Obeid
GNV News, 26 June 2026 International concern is growing over the risk of a new mass atrocity in Sudan after the United Nations’ top human rights official warned that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) may be preparing a ground offensive against El Obeid, the...
Connection of the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline begins
GNV News, 11 June 2026 On 4 June 2026, construction began on a new section of a gas pipeline that will connect Algeria and Nigeria across the Sahara Desert. The pipeline will extend about 4,128 km in total, transporting gas from Nigeria—home to the largest natural gas...
CPJ reaffirms journalist definition after Gaza database review dispute
The board of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based nonprofit that documents press freedom violations worldwide, voted on July 1, 2026, to reaffirm its existing definition of a journalist following a dispute over the organization’s review of its...
Transnational elite networks
In June 2026, the list of invitees for a gathering of members and guests of an exclusive society known as Dialog was leaked. The invitation list for the gathering, scheduled for August 2026 in Dublin, Ireland, includes top corporate, political and military figures...
Summary article: unfair trade, unfair labor
In June 2026, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire (trillionaire), amassing assets equivalent to 1 trillion US dollars. This disturbing milestone draws attention to a system in which those who already have wealth can use it to make themselves even richer,...
The human cost of the data center push in Latin America
This article was written by Daria Dergacheva, Fernanda Canofre, and Sydney Allen for Global Voices. It is part of Global Voices’ April 2026 Spotlight series, “Human perspectives on AI.” This series will offer insight into how AI is being used in global majority...
Chile: New Anti-Terrorism Law Applied to Mapuche Youth
GNV News, December 28, 2025 On December 19, 2025, in Chile, the new anti-terrorism law was applied for the first time. The law took effect on February 4, 2025, defines terrorism in detail, and imposes harsher penalties on those who support individuals involved in...
Can Guyana escape the resource curse?
Guyana, where oil fields were discovered in 2015, has gained major economic opportunities by beginning oil exports in 2020. However, the benefits and potential adverse effects of these resources are still unclear. With the discovery of more than 11 billion barrels of...
Transnational elite networks
In June 2026, the list of invitees for a gathering of members and guests of an exclusive society known as Dialog was leaked. The invitation list for the gathering, scheduled for August 2026 in Dublin, Ireland, includes top corporate, political and military figures...
Bosnia’s High Representative resigns: The fragile post-war order
GNV News, 21 June 2026 Christian Schmidt, the “High Representative (OHR)” overseeing the implementation of the peace agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has resigned just under five years after taking office. The OHR has described this as a “personal decision” and...
Opposition movement against Trump’s son-in-law’s resort development in Albania
In southwestern Albania on the Balkan Peninsula, a large luxury resort development plan has sparked intense opposition. The project involves the investment company of Jared Kushner, son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, and the planned site is known as a habitat...
The end of a trend? The Global South and the Japanese media
In 2023, GNV identified the sudden appearance of the term “Global South” in the Japanese media. This appearance was the result of the Japanese government attempting to promote the concept in the lead up to the G7 Hiroshima Summit in May of that year. It appeared to be...
Transnational elite networks
In June 2026, the list of invitees for a gathering of members and guests of an exclusive society known as Dialog was leaked. The invitation list for the gathering, scheduled for August 2026 in Dublin, Ireland, includes top corporate, political and military figures...
The number of drug users reaches an all-time high
GNV News. 28 June 2026 According to the World Drug Report 2026 released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on 26 June, 2026, the number of people who used drugs in 2024 reached approximately 331 million worldwide, the highest on record. They...
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Gold-linked mercury pollution rising: Women particularly impacted
GNV News, 18 June 2026 As global demand for gold grows, mercury pollution linked to artisanal and small-scale gold mining also appears to be on the rise, threatening health and livelihoods worldwide. Global gold demand exceeded 5,000 tonnes in 2025 for the first time,...
Connection of the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline begins
GNV News, 11 June 2026 On 4 June 2026, construction began on a new section of a gas pipeline that will connect Algeria and Nigeria across the Sahara Desert. The pipeline will extend about 4,128 km in total, transporting gas from Nigeria—home to the largest natural gas...
Opposition movement against Trump’s son-in-law’s resort development in Albania
In southwestern Albania on the Balkan Peninsula, a large luxury resort development plan has sparked intense opposition. The project involves the investment company of Jared Kushner, son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, and the planned site is known as a habitat...
Mozambique fully repays debt to the IMF
GNV News – April 8, 2026 On March 27, 2026, it was revealed that Mozambique had fully repaid its debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), amounting to approximately 701.4 million US dollars. The debt to the IMF had been borrowed as assistance in response to the...
Tensions rise between Eritrea and Ethiopia
GNV News, March 25, 2026 The Ethiopian army has moved a large number of troops and weapons to the border with Eritrea, raising tensions as the possibility of further conflict is being suggested. Behind this move is Ethiopia’s claim that Eritrean troops have been...
Surge in the use of child soldiers: Colombia
GNV News February 20, 2026 In Colombia, the use of children by armed groups has quadrupled over the past 5 years, according to a United Nations verification. In Colombia, after decades of conflict, a peace agreement was reached in 2016 between the government and the...
New momentum towards peace in Cyprus?
GNV News, 16 July 2026 On 13 July 2026, the European Union (EU) appointed European Commission Vice-President Raffaele Fitto as Special Representative for the Cyprus issue. By appointing a new special representative for Cyprus, the EU indicated that there is “renewed...
Solving common challenges with “global public investment”
Securing clean energy, outbreaks of infectious diseases, emergency responses to natural disasters… As it becomes increasingly difficult to raise funds for international aid, how should we address these shared, global challenges? More than 30 countries from the Global...
Sri Lanka, a new target for cyber crime organizations
GNV News, 19 June 2026 In response to intensified crackdowns in Southeast Asia, particularly Cambodia, there are reports that Chinese criminal organizations are relocating their scamming bases to Sri Lanka. As a result, Sri Lanka’s newly established Cyber Crime...
Hunger deepens in northern Nigeria
On July 2, 2026, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that more than 17 million people in nine northern states of Nigeria are affected by conflict and facing food conditions at crisis, emergency, or catastrophic famine levels. Hunger is particularly...
Transnational elite networks
In June 2026, the list of invitees for a gathering of members and guests of an exclusive society known as Dialog was leaked. The invitation list for the gathering, scheduled for August 2026 in Dublin, Ireland, includes top corporate, political and military figures...
The number of drug users reaches an all-time high
GNV News. 28 June 2026 According to the World Drug Report 2026 released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on 26 June, 2026, the number of people who used drugs in 2024 reached approximately 331 million worldwide, the highest on record. They...
Gold-linked mercury pollution rising: Women particularly impacted
GNV News, 18 June 2026 As global demand for gold grows, mercury pollution linked to artisanal and small-scale gold mining also appears to be on the rise, threatening health and livelihoods worldwide. Global gold demand exceeded 5,000 tonnes in 2025 for the first time,...
Tensions rise between Eritrea and Ethiopia
GNV News, March 25, 2026 The Ethiopian army has moved a large number of troops and weapons to the border with Eritrea, raising tensions as the possibility of further conflict is being suggested. Behind this move is Ethiopia’s claim that Eritrean troops have been...
Target Met Ahead of Schedule: Cervical Cancer Vaccine Reaches 86 Million Girls
GNV News December 26, 2025 On November 17, 2025, the first World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day, the Gavi (Gavi) Vaccine Alliance announced that it had achieved ahead of schedule the target set in 2023 of vaccinating 86 million girls by the end of 2025....
New momentum towards peace in Cyprus?
GNV News, 16 July 2026 On 13 July 2026, the European Union (EU) appointed European Commission Vice-President Raffaele Fitto as Special Representative for the Cyprus issue. By appointing a new special representative for Cyprus, the EU indicated that there is “renewed...
Hunger deepens in northern Nigeria
On July 2, 2026, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that more than 17 million people in nine northern states of Nigeria are affected by conflict and facing food conditions at crisis, emergency, or catastrophic famine levels. Hunger is particularly...
The end of a trend? The Global South and the Japanese media
In 2023, GNV identified the sudden appearance of the term “Global South” in the Japanese media. This appearance was the result of the Japanese government attempting to promote the concept in the lead up to the G7 Hiroshima Summit in May of that year. It appeared to be...
Connection of the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline begins
GNV News, 11 June 2026 On 4 June 2026, construction began on a new section of a gas pipeline that will connect Algeria and Nigeria across the Sahara Desert. The pipeline will extend about 4,128 km in total, transporting gas from Nigeria—home to the largest natural gas...
AI, cross-border repression and other threats to African democracy
As in many other parts of the world, Africa has in recent years been experiencing democratic backsliding. GNV is republishing two articles by African Arguments that focus on some of the issues facing African democracy. The first is 'AI and the New Machinery of African...
The human cost of the data center push in Latin America
This article was written by Daria Dergacheva, Fernanda Canofre, and Sydney Allen for Global Voices. It is part of Global Voices’ April 2026 Spotlight series, “Human perspectives on AI.” This series will offer insight into how AI is being used in global majority...
Hunger deepens in northern Nigeria
On July 2, 2026, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that more than 17 million people in nine northern states of Nigeria are affected by conflict and facing food conditions at crisis, emergency, or catastrophic famine levels. Hunger is particularly...
Food systems and world hunger
In 2025, 266 million people across 47 countries experienced high levels of acute food insecurity, according to the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC). And as of 2024, 673 million people worldwide – roughly one in twelve – were undernourished. Through the United...
Summary article: unfair trade, unfair labor
In June 2026, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire (trillionaire), amassing assets equivalent to 1 trillion US dollars. This disturbing milestone draws attention to a system in which those who already have wealth can use it to make themselves even richer,...
New momentum towards peace in Cyprus?
GNV News, 16 July 2026 On 13 July 2026, the European Union (EU) appointed European Commission Vice-President Raffaele Fitto as Special Representative for the Cyprus issue. By appointing a new special representative for Cyprus, the EU indicated that there is “renewed...
Hunger deepens in northern Nigeria
On July 2, 2026, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that more than 17 million people in nine northern states of Nigeria are affected by conflict and facing food conditions at crisis, emergency, or catastrophic famine levels. Hunger is particularly...
Summary article: unfair trade, unfair labor
In June 2026, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire (trillionaire), amassing assets equivalent to 1 trillion US dollars. This disturbing milestone draws attention to a system in which those who already have wealth can use it to make themselves even richer,...
EU Supreme Court ruling: Publishing videos from Russian broadcasters is illegal
On June 2, 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in a judgment that reposting videos from a Russian broadcaster on a free personal blog is illegal. Although the blog is run by only three individuals and has no commercial purpose, the Court held...
Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger: Formal withdrawal from the ICC
GNV News, 5 July 2026 In June 2026, three countries in the Central Sahel region—Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger—formally notified the UN Secretary-General of their withdrawal from the Rome Statute, which is the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC)....
Fears of mass atrocities grow in Sudan’s El Obeid
GNV News, 26 June 2026 International concern is growing over the risk of a new mass atrocity in Sudan after the United Nations’ top human rights official warned that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) may be preparing a ground offensive against El Obeid, the...
EU Supreme Court ruling: Publishing videos from Russian broadcasters is illegal
On June 2, 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in a judgment that reposting videos from a Russian broadcaster on a free personal blog is illegal. Although the blog is run by only three individuals and has no commercial purpose, the Court held...
CPJ reaffirms journalist definition after Gaza database review dispute
The board of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based nonprofit that documents press freedom violations worldwide, voted on July 1, 2026, to reaffirm its existing definition of a journalist following a dispute over the organization’s review of its...
Hondurasgate: Origins and allegations
“In Honduras, you need force, you need logistics, you need blood. If you want the people under control, you have to crush them. Squeeze them”. These words, attributed to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, can be heard in a voice note sent in March 2026...
Food systems and world hunger
In 2025, 266 million people across 47 countries experienced high levels of acute food insecurity, according to the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC). And as of 2024, 673 million people worldwide – roughly one in twelve – were undernourished. Through the United...
Gold-linked mercury pollution rising: Women particularly impacted
GNV News, 18 June 2026 As global demand for gold grows, mercury pollution linked to artisanal and small-scale gold mining also appears to be on the rise, threatening health and livelihoods worldwide. Global gold demand exceeded 5,000 tonnes in 2025 for the first time,...
OPCW admits concealing evidence in alleged chemical attack in Syria
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) (Note 1) acknowledged in legal filings that it had concealed evidence that it had gathered relating to an alleged chemical attack by the Syrian Arab Air Force in Douma, Syria, on 7 April 2018, according...
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