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Living Stories of Change: What Can Activists from the Global South Teach Us?
Right now, human rights are under threat in 116 of the world’s 195 countries. From discussions in the US about imminent nuclear weapons testing and genocide in Gaza to famine in Sudan and Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, in a changing context we have to constantly rethink what activism and human rights protection might look like.
In our search for examples, we are accustomed to looking to the post-Soviet and European space — but there are others. In Uzbekistan, a country between the South and the North, we can turn to practices outside the usual narratives and look at how activists in the Global South work. People are resisting authoritarianism and repression in former colonies, in countries experiencing genocide, in countries with ongoing famine… Perhaps we ourselves are closer to the South than to the North?
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