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Audio: Youth Protests across Latin America

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From Colombo to Kathmandu to Jakarta, a generation raised online is turning digital outrage into real-world protest, challenging power, demanding accountability, and redefining what revolution looks like across Asia. In this podcast, the journalist Ester Pinheiro speaks with: Sanskriti Pandey, sexual and reproductive rights young activist from Nepal. Sarthak Bhattarai, political reform activist from Nepal. Michelin Sallata, young Indigenous activist from Indonesia. Sulochana Peiris, documentary maker, researcher, writer, and director of the film #GoHomeGota from Sri Lanka. 
Ester Pinheiro
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Humour, hope and hashtags: how Gen Z is reshaping protest in Latin America

From livestreams in Lima to mass marches in Mexico City and youth networks in Buenos Aires, a new generation is reshaping protest in Latin America. Gen Z activists respond to corruption, crime, and political instability by blending street mobilisation with digital organising, memes, and cultural expression. Decentralised, creative, and often born online, their movements show how humour, hope, and hashtags are transforming activism across the region.
Ester Pinheiro

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Gen Z Against the State: Democracy in Crisis in Madagascar

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The 2025 Gen Z protests in Madagascar were catalysed by several key political events. Madagascar’s position as a Small Island Developing State, uniquely vulnerable to climate change and economic precarity, poses specific challenges, and the country’s government has failed to address these in a manner that protects the futures of its young people. The 2025 protests rallied against political corruption and government inadequacy, demanding a stronger and more just political system as well as greater accountability for systemic shortcomings. While President Rajoelina was ousted, more work is needed to ensure stronger foundations for the nation’s development and future.
Cover of publication: From Screens to Streets: Decoding Bangladesh’s Gen Z July Uprising

From Screens to Streets: Decoding Bangladesh’s Gen Z July Uprising

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The 2024 July Uprising in Bangladesh integrated the characteristics of Gen Z revolutions around the world while also building upon the nation’s unique history of protests and resistance. Over the course of several weeks in the summer of 2024, the July Uprising operationalised tools such as street art, music, and memes and combined digital networks with in-person protests. By early August, the movement ousted Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian regime, but whether the vision of the protesters can be sustained remains to be seen.
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The death of 13-year-old Ochanya Ogbanje in 2018 sparked Nigeria’s #JusticeForOchanya movement seeking greater protections for women and girls against sexual and gender-based violence and greater accountability for perpetrators. The movement resurfaced in 2025 following concerted efforts at mobilisation, with renewed demands for justice and concrete procedural improvements. Interviews with movement organisers from different generations draw lessons on how such movements can be managed to ensure the attention and support needed to lead to long-term, structural change.
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