Global Voices Online

Fyr has a look around the Saint Thomas river in Jamaica to inspect the damage wrought by hurricanes Dennis and Emily.

Human Rights Watch calls for concrete action from Nigeria following an unprecendented statement by President Olusegun Obasanjo, who admitted that Nigerian police officers have committed killings and torture.

Emeka Okafor at Timbuktu Chronicles reports on open source initiatives across Africa on Software Freedom Day.

Doan Mind Me directs us to a newly created webring for Caribbean bloggers.

In her attempt to revisit the issue of house demolitions, to speak again with the thousands of Palestinian who lost their homes in Rafah all in the name of security for the settlers, Lila of A Mother from Gaza Blog discovers that Abo Holi (Israeli checkpoint inside Gaza) is closed, and reports that a day earlier, Gaza settlers continued to disrupt Palestinian life as they attacked villagers near Kfar Darom and burned down their storage sheds, as she says.

On the other hand, Kabbalah for Women says on Gaza Disengagement that everyone in the center is very moved and sad about the current state of affairs but inside they're happy it's happening to someone else and not them.

Metroblogging Lahore has a feature on carpets and the carpet industry in Lahore.

The Pakistani National Anthem video gets a makeover, and JNS has views on how patriotic videos gloss over hardships of people in certain geographical areas.

In reference to a course in robotics attended by thirty-nine gifted Saudi students coming from all over the kingdom, Alhamedi of The Religious Policeman Blog asks, Not one of the gifted students is female. The 39 most gifted students are all male? Isn't that strange? When God was handing out the intelligence genes, didn't the girls get any? Or is it just that, as always, we totally ignore the abilities and talents of 50% of our population?

Dilip has a post questioning the theories that push free markets or socialism as the solution to India's problems, and Vislumbres responds to that post by bringing more perspective into the issue.