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Lesotho: 2012 General Election Date Set

Lesotho will hold general elections on 26 May, against a backdrop of political violence. The Lesotho Political Parties Leadership Forum claims that there is a “hit squad” that has been assigned to kill prominent people ahead of the general elections.

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Bangladesh: Bloggers March for Murdered Journalist Couple 16 May 2012
Armenia: Fears After Nationalist Firebombers Released on Bail 16 May 2012
Ethiopia: Muslims Take Campaign Online for Religious Independence 12 May 2012
Taiwan: Indigenous Tao People's 30 Year Nuclear ‘Nightmare' 11 May 2012
Bolivia: Protests Sweep Across the Country 10 May 2012

Latest stories about Video

18 May 2012

Video: Capacity Building in Rising Voices Media Training

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Thailand, Myanmar (Burma)

In the border between Burma and Thailand, the Rising Voices grantee project Karen Border News has launched their audio podcast workshop. In this short film, the students of the radio journalism course speak about their experience.

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Palestine: PalFest Literature Festival in Gaza for First Time

Written by Ola Anan · Middle East & North Africa

This year for the first time the Palestinian Festival of Literature was held in Gaza. A group of about forty Egyptian, Tunisian, Sudanese and Palestinian authors, artists and activists were granted permission to visit Gaza and participate in PalFest 2012 from May 5 to 10.

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17 May 2012

Armenia: Homophobic Firebombing Controversy Continues as Officials, MPs Promote Hate Crime

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Controversy continues to surround the firebombing of a gay-friendly bar in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, as officials and politicians praise the arsonists. Online, however, many are instead speaking out against those nationalists doing so.

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16 May 2012

Argentina: Transforming a Neighborhood Through a Cultural Shed

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

The Piedrabuenarte Cultural Shed in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina is transforming the neighborhood through culture, arts and citizen media. Formerly a warehouse for discarded scenery and sets for the Colon Theater, the space was transformed by artists in the community into a center for arts. Through their YouTube channel they are telling the world about it.

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Greece: TEDxThessaloniki 2012, the Courage to Create

Written by Asteris Masouras · Western Europe

Twelve hours long, with more than 20 speakers and performers, over 700 attendees and 5.000 livestream viewers from 57 countries; on Saturday May 12, TEDx Thessaloniki 2012 provided an inspiring intermission from the agonizing climax of the financial crisis embroiling Greece.

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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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15 May 2012

Latin America: Art from the Colonial Period in 2.0

Written by Laura Vidal · Translated by Jon Lindsay Miles · Latin America

We present a sample of the numerous blogs, videos and internet sites dedicated to promoting knowledge about colonial period art, a common artistic denominator for the majority of the American continent, the individual indigenous cultures of which first adopted and then adapted as their own.

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Costa Rica: The Circus that Saves Children's Lives

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

To the south of Costa Rica lies the town of Perez Zeledon, home to the Fantazztico Circus that is giving children and youth in the region a chance to stay out of drugs and trouble while opening doors to international travel.

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14 May 2012

Venezuela: Street Art on the Internet

Written by Laura Vidal · Translated by Marianna Breytman · Latin America

Artists and musicians broaden their audience when they come into contact with citizen media. Here we show some citizen videos of artists in the streets of Venezuela.

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Nigeria: BattaBox Bakes Stories Through Online Videos

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike · Sub-Saharan Africa

BattaBox is everything Nigerian - music, film, street-life, news, comedy, cooking and much, much more...Nwachukwu Egbunike talks to Christian Purefoy about the evolving online video show.

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Updates about Video

18 May 2012

Afghanistan

Through twitter, Al Jazeera shares the video story of a group of Afghan women who are using poetry as a way to empower themselves and reclaim their voice.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

16 May 2012

English

WITNESS, a site advocating for Human Rights Issues has produced a nice analysis of what makes a good Advocacy video, using Aristotle's' Poetic regarding story arcs.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

Citizen Media

You can now vote for your favorite of CNN's audience submitted videos from 2011 at iReport in their annual iReport Awards. Alongside the community vote, a panel of judges, including Global Voices managing editor Solana Larsen, will select winners in six categories.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

China

The Presurfer shares a video where we can see how the Beijing Jianbing is made. This large breakfast crepe is made possible thanks to a very steady hand and a motorized wheel that allows a really large and thin crepe to be evenly cooked.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

15 May 2012

Mozambique

Knight International Journalism Fellow Mercedes Sayagues published a video (with versions in English and Portuguese) which takes viewers on a sad tour of maternity clinics in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. The province has the highest maternal mortality rate in Mozambique.

• Janet Gunter

14 May 2012

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

China

A video, showing a drunken foreigner beaten up by a number of passersby for sexually assaulting a woman in public, has been circulated widely on line. Ministry of Tofu translated some of the online comments.

• Oiwan Lam

Georgia

The Young Georgians posts video of this weekend's flash flood in Tbilisi, Georgia. Five people, including two children, are reported dead.

• Onnik Krikorian

11 May 2012

Afghanistan

The Presurfer shares a small video documentary of one of the only two remaining Afghan box photographers left in Kabul, and how he takes pictures and processes them inside a small black box.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

7 May 2012

Belgium

The Impossible texting and driving test is part of a campaign to raise awareness to the dangers of texting using mobile devices while driving in Belgium. Several young people doing their behind the wheel driving test were surprised to know there was a new test section requiring them to text while driving. The dashboard cam tells the story of how these young people faced this new part of the test.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

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Ethiopia: Muslims Take Campaign Online for Religious Independence

dagmAWI Why Amhara tribe always negative about Moslems. You peneterated deep into Muslim Ethiopian lands and build huge churches with Muslim...
Islamization is not Arabization. Arabs use Islam to start their cultural conquest and then physical conquest will follow. ...
peace for ethiopia