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27 April 2012

Malaysia: Rare Earth Processing Plant Creates Backlash

Written by Jerrenn Lam · East Asia

An Australian mining company has established a processing plant in Kuantan, Malaysia. But many Malaysians are incensed that this plant was constructed without consulting the residents. Netizens debate whether the government should stop the operations of the rare earth processing plant

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26 April 2012

Video: Mothers Around the World Share Their Different Experiences

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia

In the International Museum of Women, the current online exhibit is all about mothers. MAMA: Motherhood around the globe explores the different aspects of motherhood through video interviews to women in Nigeria, Kenya, Afghanistan, USA, Colombia, Hungary, China and Norway.

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25 April 2012

Cuba: Resorting to Hunger Strike

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

Cuban netizens, primarily from the diaspora, are once again blogging about instances of police abuse in the country and how the island's justice system routinely makes hunger-strikers out of prisoners of conscience.

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24 April 2012

Zambia: Former VP's Death Highlights State of Local Hospitals

Written by Gershom Ndhlovu · Sub-Saharan Africa

Immediate past Vice President of the former ruling MMD government George Kunda died on 16 April 2012 at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in the capital, Lusaka. Despite mourning his death, netizens seized the opportunity to criticize the current status of health care in Zambia and highlight the need for reform.

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Italy: Tragic Death of Piermario Morosini Shocks the Soccer World

Written by Abdoulaye Bah · Translated by Sara Gold · Western Europe

Since April 14, Italian radio stations, Twitter, Facebook, as well as blogs from across the world have been discussing the sudden, on-field death Piermario Morosini, a 25-year-old soccer player, who was playing for a Serie B team of the Italian football league system.

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21 April 2012

This Week in the Caribbean Blogosphere

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

In last week's summary of the regional blogosphere, a young comtemporary artist from Barbados made the observation that the region is “more than the beach and coconuts.” Here's a round-up of what Caribbean netizens were talking about this week, with not one mention of beaches or coconuts...

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20 April 2012

Tunisia: Neglect of Those Wounded in the Revolution

Written by Salah Almhamdi · Middle East & North Africa

Tunisians have been expressing their dissatisfaction and anger regarding the government's poor treatment of those wounded during the Tunisian revolution. Some of them have bullets still to be extracted from their bodies, and other had limbs amputated and are still waiting for prosthetic limbs.

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19 April 2012

Mexico City Netizens Celebrate World Bicycle Day

Written by Andrea Arzaba · Latin America

Netizens in Mexico City are celebrating World Bicycle Day by sharing their cycling experiences through blogs and Twitter. They are also trying to raise awareness about the risks of using bicycles as a means of transportation is such a busy city.

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Bulgaria: Living With Hepatitis C

Written by Rayna St. · Eastern & Central Europe

Rayna Stamboliyska interviews the author of "Hepatitis-Minded: Thoughts of a Contaminated," a blog that does a fabulous job informing people about Hepatitis C.

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18 April 2012

Video Highlights: Syrian Activism, Children's Issues and Dolphin Deaths

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa, East Asia

A selection of Global Voices' most recent and interesting stories like the Syrian protests in Middle East and North Africa, China and India's female gendercide phenomenon in South Asia and East Asia and viral video campaigns with Children in Mexico and the massive dolphin die-off in Peru for Latin America.

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Updates about Health

23 April 2012

Bulgaria

On May 19, the 15th annual May Bicycle Parade will gather thousands of supporters of cycling in Sofia with one clear goal - to count the cyclists and show that in Sofia there are more of them than ever. Bulgarian NGO “Bicycle revolution” is organizing the event [bg]. In 2009, more than 3,000 cyclists took part in the Parade.

• Ruslan Trad

20 April 2012

Kenya

The Guardian.co.uk has released a video on female genital mutilation and the women and girls who are against this tradition and bringing on new alternatives to this initiation ritual. In the story, two young women refuse to be cut and married off in exchange for dowry, instead they are trying to convince their families that education is a better financial investment and that womanhood can be achieved with their genitals uncut.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

16 April 2012

Nigeria

Emannuel Iduma discusses #SaveOke campaign in the context of Kony 2012: “I am interested, in joining my voice to #SaveOke, in telling ways in which KONY 2012 implicate readings of virality…If a #SaveOke video is made, and it goes viral, the complex questions of white supremacy and black inactivity will not arise. We might just ask, ‘is this real?’ or ‘why exhibit his ailment?’ Those questions are within the realm of simplicity. This is a simple, human, matter.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

15 April 2012

Guinea-Bissau

According to Simão Mendes National Hospital [pt], the military attacked citizens in a demonstration this morning, April 15, in front of the National Parliament of Guinea-Bissau. On Facebook they have posted a picture of a stabbed patient who arrived at the hospital, “before they [the military] come and take our camera and computer, as they did with the journalist [Aly Silva]”.

• Sara Moreira

14 April 2012

India

Ram Bansal elaborates what Indian traditions are damaging to human health.

• Rezwan

Guinea-Bissau

Simão Mendes National Hospital employees have been posting photos and reports [pt] on their Facebook profile [pt] which illustrate “collateral damages” from the coup d'état that took place on April 12 in Guinea-Bissau. Power cuts, lack of medicine and fuel shortage for ambulances jeopardize the work of doctors, whose moves are limited due to roads being blocked by the military.

• João Miguel D. de A. Lima

10 April 2012

France

Babatope Babalobi, Secretary General WASH-JN [Water, sanitation and Hygiene journalists network (WASH)] discusses two meetings on water and sanitation held in Marseilles last month: “It seems that the organisers of the two events wrongly assumed that all citizens are able to access water and sanitation services through public or privately owned or managed conventional water system which unfortunately is not the case particularly in most parts of Asia and Sub Saharan Africa.”

• Abdoulaye Bah

4 April 2012

Bulgaria

The collaborative media outlet svobodnoslovo.com writes [bg] about a new book by Lyubomir Levchev [bg], who mentions Lyudmila Jivkova's death 30 years ago. It has always been reported that Jivkova, the daughter of Bulgaria's last communist dictator, died in a car accident. Levchev explains, however, that she might have been poisoned: he writes about a ring with a turquoise stone Jivkova used to wear that had started whitening a few months before she died. This property has been known [fr] since the Antiquity as a sign of poison in the body.

• Rayna St.

2 April 2012

Pakistan

Shisha smoking has bacome a craze among youngsters in Pakistan in recent years. Hina Safdar reports that a ban on Shisha smoking/selling is in effect in the Sindh province and violating the law can lead to 6 months of imprisonment.

• Rezwan

Bolivia

Much of the Bolivian public health sector is protesting the government's decision to raise the workday for doctors from six to eight hours a day. Patricia Almanza, a child anesthesiologist, tweets where she was instead, “My colleagues are blockading Arce Avenue [in protest] and here I am in surgery to perform an urgent Caesarean section (it was a boy). Emergencies are taken care of.”

• Eduardo Avila

Comments on "Health"

Bolivia: Protests Sweep Across the Country

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The plant has already been proven to be harmless and well within international scientific standards by scientists who actually know...
When you protest with wrong facts you devalue the protest movement. Lynas is safe.
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