Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 May 25

25 May 2007

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Stories from 25 May 2007

Colombia: Bloggers Campaign for the Release of a 3-Year Old Hostage

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

Libertad para Emanuel is a blog that was started in order to call for the release of a 3-year old hostage taken by FARC guerrillas. Many other Colombian bloggers joined the campaign and wrote their support for the cause, while others who supported the cause did not want to forget about the other thousands of hostages currently being held.

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Kazakhstan against -bashization

Written by Leila Tanayeva · Central Asia & Caucasus

Yesterday Sergey Duvanov, a journalist and a human rights activist was arrested for organising the protests on the square in Almaty against the constitutional amendments that exempt Nazarbayev from a...

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Afghan Whispers:Refugees,War Lords and Orphanages

Written by Fred Petrossian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Several Afghan bloggers have discussed Iranian government’s decision to expel Afghan refugees to Afghanistan. Some of these refugees have lived in Iran for years. Marine Gustavson, from Parsa NGO shows...

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Brazil: New Round on the National Internet Policy Debate

Written by Jose Murilo · Latin America

There are not many issues in Brazil where you are able to find unanimity. But when you talk about messing with Internet freedoms, the defenders spring up from radically different...

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Sri Lanka: S. Bose(1975 - 2007), Poet, Editor & Writer

Written by Mathy Kandasamy · South Asia

The following poem was written by S. Bose, a writer-poet (Tamil) from Vavuniya, Sri Lanka and was translated by a friend of mine for Global Voices Online readers. Chandrabose Sudhakar...

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Arabeyes: Unlicensed Bahrainis; Silent Algerians; Kidneyless Egyptians and More

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

What is banned and allowed in Bahrain? How did the government and politicians react to the low turn out at the Algerian elections last week? Why did an Egyptian man sell his kidney? And finally - why do you need Wasta in Jordan? These are the main questions the following translation of Arabic blogs shed light on this week.

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Updates from 25 May 2007

Estonia

Itching for Eestimaa writes about Estonia's relations with its Nordic neighbors: “Estonia is too small and too far for serious investment when dollars and pounds can flow into larger, closer markets like Poland, Hungary, or the Czech Republic. For the Finns, Swedes, and to a lesser extent the Danes and Norwegians, Estonia is attractive because it's a market they can dominate with relative ease.”

• Veronica Khokhlova