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Video Highlights: Culture, Human Rights, Online Activism and Crowdfunding

A selection of Global Voices' most recent and interesting stories on video advocacy including a focus on indigenous rights and online activism, selected by Juliana Rincón Parra.

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Alongside Iran and elsewhere, Azerbaijan once again celebrated Novruz, the Zoroastrian or Persian New Year. One of the most important dates in the country's calendar, foreigners blogging from Azerbaijan, as well as Azerbaijanis themselves, naturally introduced the holiday to their readers.

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Azerbaijan: A Rare Opportunity for Opposition Youth to Protest

Georgia: Return of the Meskhetian Turks 3 January 2012
Caucasus: Frozen Conflicts, Forgotten Lives? 12 December 2011
Video Highlights: Identity, Refugees, Conflict and Open Technology 7 December 2011
Azerbaijan: Eynulla Fatullayev Pardoned Following Twitter Action 26 May 2011
Azerbaijan: Jon Snow and Amnesty International in Twitter Action 24 May 2011

Latest stories about Azerbaijan

22 April 2012

Armenia: Human Rights Organizations Concerned by Film Festival Obstruction

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture

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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14 April 2012

Armenia: Support for Georgi Vanyan

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture

Following the cancellation last week of a festival of Azerbaijani films in Armenia amid threats of violence, alternative voices online comment on the campaign targeting the organizer, peace activist Georgi Vanyan.

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12 April 2012

Armenia: Nationalist Threats Against Local Activist

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture

Just weeks after one example of censorship in Armenia comes another with local peace activist Georgi Vanyan receiving abuse and death threats from nationalists opposed to screening Azerbaijani films in the country.

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15 March 2012

Azerbaijan: Investigative Journalist Defiant After Blackmail Threat

Written by Pervin Muradli · Freedom of Speech, Governance

According to Freedom House, Azerbaijan continues “to imprison journalists and bloggers who express dissenting opinions.” However, as one journalist discovered last week, there are other ways to silence critical voices in the oil-rich former Soviet republic.

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2 January 2012

Caucasus: The Year in Review

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture

As popular uprisings spread through the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, opposition forces tried to replicate the Arab Spring in the South Caucasus. However, they failed.

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21 December 2011

Armenia-Azerbaijan: Garlic Wars

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Arts & Culture, Food

With tensions high between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a result of a still unresolved territorial dispute, the appearance of Azerbaijani garlic in Armenian supermarkets has made some local media hysterical.

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3 December 2011

Azerbaijan: Toy… Tying the Knot the Azeri Way

Written by Aygun Janmammadova · Arts & Culture, Food

Toy is the Azerbaijani word for a wedding, one of the most important events for families everywhere. However, in Azerbaijan such importance is placed on marriage that it takes months of planning.

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26 June 2011

Armenia: LGBT Persons Still Facing Discrimination

Written by Liana Aghajanian · Human Rights, Women & Gender

LGBT persons are still facing discrimination in Armenia and much of the rest of the South Caucasus, a new groundbreaking two-year study by the Council of Europe (CoE) has found.

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11 June 2011

Featured Translator: Fabienne Der Hagopian

Written by Claire Ulrich · Translated by Claire Ulrich · Blogger Profiles

Fabienne Der Hagopian is a volunteer translator for Global Voices in French. Being of Armenian descent, she has translated into French many posts about the Caucasus, but is also passionate about the world at large. Fabienne reflects on her experience as a volunteer translator.

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22 May 2011

Azerbaijan: Bloggers Divided Over Eurovision Win

Written by Pervin Muradli · Arts & Culture, Development

Last weekend, Azerbaijan was shaking, with thousands of people flooding onto the streets of Baku, the capital, celebrating their country's win in the Eurovision Song Contest held a few hours earlier. However, not everyone was euphoric about the victory in the international music competition.

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Updates about Azerbaijan

14 May 2012

Armenian

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

26 April 2012

English

Caucasus Conflict Voices posts early data from a 2011 household survey by the Caucasus Resource Research Centers revealing attitudes to the long-running conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh.

• Onnik Krikorian

15 April 2012

English

Unzipped again comments on last week's cancelled festival of Azerbaijani films in Armenia's second largest city of Gyumri. The blog concludes that the campaign and demonstration against local peace activist Georgi Vanyan illustrated that the ‘mob rules' and “state structures in Armenia failed to protect constitutional rights and freedom of their citizens.“

• Onnik Krikorian

English

Emin Milli, one of the two ‘donkey bloggers' detained in July 2009 and later conditionally released in November 2010, posts the transcript of his speech delivered yesterday at Amnesty International UK's National Conference.

• Pervin Muradli

English

NetProphet comments on the case of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a young activist in Azerbaijan who was sentenced to two years in prison on what international human rights groups consider politically motivated charges, and a new campaign to have him freed.

• Pervin Muradli

7 April 2012

English

NetProphet comments on the release of Azerbaijan's first domestically produced anti-virus software, named after the country's capital, B.A.K.U. Launched at an expensive hotel, the event was not without its glitches, however, and most notably with invitations plagued by grammatical errors from what appeared to be machine translation. Amused, social network users reportedly shared them online.

• Onnik Krikorian

2 April 2012

English

Ahead of next month's Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan, Amnesty International has posted a web feature using the spotlight on the international song contest to demand greater human rights protection and freedom of expression in the oil-rich former Soviet republic. In particular, the international human rights group is using the hashtag #freeaznow on Twitter and also calling on supporters to post messages on the Eurovision Song Contest and Azerbaijani President's Facebook page. There is also a Facebook page for the action itself.

• Onnik Krikorian

30 March 2012

English

Novruz, the Persian New Year which is also celebrated in Azerbaijan, has come to an end and, using the example of the oil-rich country, Eastbook says that during the holiday it can often be difficult to conduct business or arrange meetings. Nevertheless, it notes that Azerbaijan's Embassy in Georgia was an exception.

• Onnik Krikorian

27 March 2012

English

Unzipped: Gay Armenia comments on the passage of legislation in Georgia outlawing discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, age, and political as well as religious views. The blog notes that the inclusion of sexual orientation makes Georgia “clearly the most advanced country in the South Caucasus in terms of legislative provisions on LGBT issues.”

• Onnik Krikorian

23 March 2012

English

Narmin Noqte posts video footage and photos from the 17 March youth protest in Baku, Azerbaijan. The video is subtitled in English and available on Vimeo.

• Pervin Muradli

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Georgia: Return of the Meskhetian Turks

Ahiska Turks have not Disappeared they Live in the United states Freely and i am One of them there Are...
As a Meskhetian Turk living in Georgia and are actively looking the process , I think that our Mesketain's repatriation...
Thank you for this very striking article Onnik. As a 3rd generation ethnic Abkhaz refugee in Turkey, I know how...

This is ridiculous. The future for the Caucasus is regional peace and regional unity. This includes civil society...

Happy new years for all our muslim friends in Azerbaijan. I m a Morocan muslim and i see that this...
There are also more of my photos of Novruz in Marneuli on BBC lots more on
its also interesting that while Azeris are chiias same as iranians .. kurds are sunnis in their majority :)