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Armenia: Fears After Nationalist Firebombers Released on Bail

Following the firebombing of of an 'alternative' and gay-friendly bar in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, LGBT and other civil society activists are concerned by the rise of nationalism and hate-speech in the country.

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Europe: Economic Crisis Fuels Rise in Anti-Immigration Politics

Martinique: “Think Like A Man”, Just Not in France

The cancellation of the release of American movie “Think Like A Man” in movie theaters is being discussed by French of African descent. Read on to find out how an American movie finds a place in the French social debate.

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Brazil Approves Racial Quotas in Higher Education 5 May 2012
United States: Indig-Nación, the Spanish Newspaper of Occupy Wall Street 30 April 2012
Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana: Is “Miss Black France” Acceptable? 30 April 2012
Video: Mothers Around the World Share Their Different Experiences 26 April 2012
Turkey: Armenian Genocide Commemoration in Istanbul 24 April 2012

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16 May 2012

Video: Indigenous Video Festival Open for Submissions

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

The XI International Film and Video Festival of Indigenous Peoples to be held in Colombia during last quarter of 2012 is putting out a call for entries for audiovisual material about indigenous and first people issues and topics.

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11 May 2012

Turkey: Outrage at Sentencing of Scarf Case Student

Written by Stratos Moraitis · Middle East & North Africa

On May 11 Cihan Kirmizigul, an engineering student at Galatasaray University in Istanbul, was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in jail, accused of firebombing a building - but many believe his only "crime" was wearing a Kurdish scarf in the vicinity of the attack.

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9 May 2012

Armenia: Bar Targeted By Suspected Nationalists In Arson Attack

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

At around 5.30am on 8 May, a bar in Yerevan found itself the target of an arson attack. Popular among alternative types and widely known for its gay-friendly policy, it is believed that nationalists were responsible for the attack on D.I.Y.

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3 May 2012

Sudan/South Sudan: Voicing Hope for #newSUDANS

Written by Maha El-Sanosi · Sub-Saharan Africa

In the wake of the secession of South Sudan from Sudan in July 2011 and the recent clashes between the two countries over the oil-rich region of Heglig, citizens of both Sudans found themselves in the middle of an ugly upheaval. In her first post for Global Voices, Maha Elsanosi shows us how they are using the hashtag #newSUDANS to give peace a chance.

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26 April 2012

Peru: The Festival of the Peruvian Cajon

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Greg Ahlswede · Latin America

The Peruvian Cajon is a very commonly used instrument in Afro-Peruvian music and Peruvian music in general. The fifth anniversary of the Cajon Festival took place this year and it was a complete success, particularly for the activity known as "La Cajoneada" that was able to gather more than 1,400 cajon players, which beat its own previous Guiness Record.

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22 April 2012

Armenia: Human Rights Organizations Concerned by Film Festival Obstruction

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

After threats, intimidation and incitement to violence led to the cancellation of a film festival to be held in Armenia's second largest city of Gyumri, nationalists have attacked a human rights organization for the same, prompting concerns about freedom of expression.

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19 April 2012

Egypt: “Blog About Nubia” Day

Written by Ahmed Awadalla · Middle East & North Africa

In an attempt to highlight the situation of the Nubian community in Egypt and to challenge stereotypes about them, a day of blogging and tweeting about their cause took place on April 18.

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18 April 2012

Sweden: Culture Minister in ‘Racist Cake' Art Controversy

Written by Julie Owono · Western Europe

The Swedish Culture Minister's tasting of the controversial 'Painful Cake', representing the body of an African woman, at an art exhibition preview in Stockholm has provoked online reactions over alleged racism. Julie Owono reports.

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17 April 2012

Iran: Turning a Page on Racism Against Afghans

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa, Central Asia & Caucasus

Rumors that Afghans living in Isfahan, Iran had been banned from picnicking in a park during Iranian New Year celebrations, caused an uproar online with Iranians expressing solidarity with Afghans against racism.

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15 April 2012

Sweden: Visiting Rinkeby, Stockholm's Immigrant Ghetto

Written by محمد العامر · Translated by Mohammed Alamer · Middle East & North Africa, Western Europe

The Rinkeby district of Stockholm, Sweden is famous for its high concentration of immigrants. Curious outsiders have documented their visits.

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Updates about Ethnicity & Race

14 May 2012

France

Website citizen-nantes.com reported that [fr]: “On the evening of Saturday March 24, 2012, the ‘Collectif du 10 Mai', a group of Afro-Caribbean associations from Nantes, invited the people of Nantes to a ‘Gathering in honour of the victims, the abolitionists and those who fought against slavery' in the little-known Square Toussaint Louverture. The memorial is so little-known in fact that even its location at the foot of the Pont de Cheviré is unfamiliar to most. In fact,do not even try to find it with your GPS as this square does not show up on there!”

• Abdoulaye Bah

Armenia

During the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Azeris and Armenians were displaced. With hundreds of settlements also razed, and thousands of monuments destroyed, Conflict Voices looks at the issue of cemeteries, some of which were destroyed, but also preserved during the war as well as in the 18 years since the 1994 ceasefire.

• Onnik Krikorian

11 May 2012

Armenia

Unzipped: Gay Armenia posts the text of a statement by a group of NGOs including the Helsinki Citizens Assembly in Vanadzor, Women's Resource Center, and Pink Armenia, among others, condemning the 8 May arson attack on D.I.Y., a gay-friendly bar in Yerevan. The blog also reports that two members of a Neo-Nazi group, Dark Ravens Armenia, have been arrested [EN/AM].

• Onnik Krikorian

10 May 2012

Bahamas

“It no longer feels like hatred for me when the PLP wins, it no longer feels like time to panic”: A reflection on the country's recent elections, from Womanish Words.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

9 May 2012

Jamaica

“The Bobo Shanti youth are well spoken and have a serene gentleness about them…[they] are excellent ambassadors of Rastafari”: Jamaian litblogger Geoffrey Philp finds himself “drawn to how they greet each other and me with the words: ‘Blessed Love.'”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

6 May 2012

Greece

Facebook group ‘Leme OCHI sti Chrysi Avgi‘ (We say NO to Golden Dawn) [el] already has more than 11,000 likes. Created on December 2011, the anti-fascist group declares that “Fascism is gangrene, either you rip it off or it kills you”. Group members try to persuade people not to vote for Greek neo-Nazi party Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) in forthcoming May 6, 2012, General Greek elections. Sofia Ignatidou in a Guardian article states that “Greeks shouldn't let their despair drive them to supporting the dangerous and opportunistic far-right party”.

• Veroniki Krikoni

30 April 2012

Martinique

On Martinican collective blog Montray Kreyol, a recent post [Fr/Fr Cr] wonders why Martinique 1ère [Fr], which is the local relay of the French National Broadcast Network, Fance Television [En], has almost no Creole language spoken on air.

• Fabienne Flessel

27 April 2012

Bolivia

Over 500 members from Bolivian Indigenous organisations gathered in Trinidad, approximately 600 kilometres from La Paz, and began on April 27, 2012, at 8 pm (GMT) a march to Bolivia's Seat of Government for the second time. They are opposing Bolivia's governmental plan to built a road that would cut off right through the middle the Indigenous Territory and National Park Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS for its initials in Spanish). Real-time reporting is available on Fundación Tierra website [es] and also the hashtag #TIPNIS on Twitter.

• Pablo Andres Rivero

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