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15 January 2012

Morocco: Activist Rapper Freed

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Middle East & North Africa

Mouad Belghouat "Al Haked" (The Indignant), a 24-year-old Moroccan rap artist and outspoken critic of Morocco's monarchy, was released on Thursday from prison where he had been held since last September. The announcement of Mouad's release spread like fire on Facebook and Twitter as several supporters rushed to the prison to welcome him.

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14 January 2012

Brazil: Student Protests Against Bus Fare Increases in Piaui

Written by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia · Translated by Nicola Gardner · Latin America

Since the beginning of the year, thousands of students have been protesting against the increase in bus fares in the capital of the state of Piaui. The demonstrators are forcefully kept down by the Military Police. They have reacted by setting fire to at least one bus, and dozens of students have been arrested.

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10 January 2012

South Korea: Anger and Suspicion Grows Over Election Rigging

Written by Lee Yoo Eun · East Asia

A political scandal is brewing in South Korea over alleged election rigging, despite the police's conclusion that the nation's election commission website was disconnected due to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack.

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9 January 2012

COP17: Young Trackers Share Final Thoughts on Climate Change Talks

Written by Andrea Arzaba · China, India

Adopt a Negotiator Project trackers updated their blogs daily during the two weeks of climate change talks at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, COP17, held from November 28 to December 9, 2011, in South Africa. In this post we share some of their conclusions.

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6 January 2012

Hungary: Memories of Barvalipe Roma Pride Summer Camp

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Eastern & Central Europe

Twenty-eight young Roma people came together in the first ever Roma Pride Summer Camp where they learned about their language, history, role models and achievements, in an effort to build their sense of civic duty and social responsibility.

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4 January 2012

Cameroon: Violent Clashes Between Motorbike Taxi Drivers and Douala Citizens

Written by Julie Owono · Sub-Saharan Africa

On December 31, 2011 in the popular district of Deido in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, riots broke out between the inhabitants of the district and motorbike taxi drivers, also know as "benskiners". Here are testimonies and videos from local bloggers.

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Updates about Youth

30 January 2012

Trinidad & Tobago

The TnT River says of an incident in which a teacher allegedly stuck a student's head in a toilet bowl: “This is another case of child abuse which comes in a different form and from an institution entrusted with the education and all-round development of this child.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

27 January 2012

Trinidad & Tobago

Guanaguanare hopes that the story of Josiah Governor, the child who was beaten to death, will “motivate us to be more humane in the way we treat our children”, while TnT River blogs about Everton Vasquez, a minor who “hanged himself after receiving a beating from his grandmother.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Philippines

Baratillo Pamphlet writes about the Bloggers for Habitat YouthBuild Philippines project which aims to gather 2,000 youth that will help rebuild the lives of families whose homes were totally damaged by a typhoon.

• Mong Palatino

26 January 2012

Kenya

Intercontinental Cry has a list of 12 recommended films on indigenous issues, some made by indigenous people from Brazil, Australia, Panama, USA, Northern Kenya, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

25 January 2012

South Korea

Blogger Hangukdrama wrote on South Korean elementary children's craze over expensive and branded school bags and how this behavior has been encouraged by parents, who concerned that their kids would become outcasts if they are seen with ‘cheaper bags’, kept buying the bags.

• Lee Yoo Eun

24 January 2012

Haiti

Following new allegations of sexual assault against minors by UN troops in Haiti, mediahacker notes that “the peacekeeping troops accused of sexually abusing the young man in Port Salut have been released from custody and the impunity…continues.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

23 January 2012

South Korea

Sharing food with relatives that had been offered in the ancestral worship is regarded as the essence of the traditional Lunar New Year holiday in Korea and there are strict and complicated rules to follow in offering food. However, some young Koreans have started offering unconventional food, such as pizza, prompting serious controversy.

• Lee Yoo Eun

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