Stories from 11 December 2007
Japan: Welcome, we'll collect your fingerprints and mugshot
tokyodo-2005[jp] has reposted a cartoon by Hashimoto Masaru. “People are not concerned even when the government violates human rights. This probably means that people who live in Japan in fact are very unhappy. Because they are unhappy, when other people's human rights are violated, they don't consider these to be...
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Srebrenica Numbers
Srebrenica Genocide Blog writes about the breakdown of those killed and missing in the Srebrenica region.
The Balkans: Croatian Serbs
Balkan Anarchist writes at length about Croatian Serbs and their war experiences: “If someone were to ask me how I felt about what my Serbs, the Croatian Serbs, went through during the first half of the 1990s, I would answer them by saying, “heartbroken”. Heartbroken that those leaders who led...
The Balkans: Corruption
Balkan Baby writes about corruption in the Balkans.
Serbia: Dusan Saponja & Dusan Cavic
Belgrade 2.0 posts a wonderful selection of the wonderful video stories by Dusan Saponja and Dusan Cavic: “For short episodes such as these you just saw, it’s not really necessary to understand Serbian. However, most of the real masterpieces, award-winning shows, are subtitled. You see, besides humorous short clips, Dushan...
Serbia: “Tension Digest”
Belgrade 2.0 writes about “Kosovo is Serbia” campaign and other elements of the current Kosovo-related “tension.”
Bosnia: Kosovo Independence
TOL's Balkanizer wonders whether Bosnia is going to recognize Kosovo's independence, once it is declared.
Russia: Nashi's Vova Panties
Scraps of Moscow writes about “a Nashi-sponsored fashion-show-cum-rally,” Russian politics and feminism: “The young lady – or at least part of her – is proclaiming, ‘VOVA! I am with you!'”
Jordan: Public Places
Jordanian blogger Ohod discusses the “crisis of public spaces in Jordan.”
Ukraine: Yatsenyuk's Promise
Yulia Tymoshenko got 225 votes instead of the needed 226 to become Ukraine's PM today, and Ukrainiana wonders if Arseniy Yatsenyuk is ready to deliver on his promise to resign as speaker due to that: “Yatsenyuk got the job only as a condition of the Orange Coalition agreement between BYuT...
Russia, Belarus: A Union?
“A union between Russia and Belarus with Putin as president? Those are the rumours presently at sway in Moscow,” writes Vilhelm Konnander.
Georgia: All Eyes on Kosovo
Steady State says that the failure to come to a decision on the status of Kosovo might well send Russia and the West on a collision course. With the need to resolve frozen conflicts in the South Caucasus on the international agenda, what happens with Kosovo has implications in this...
Armenia: Voters Undecided
Unzipped republishes the findings of a recent poll which indicates that the 19 February presidential election might well be decided by a large percentage of currently undecided voters. The blog concludes that in order to woo such voters, candidates should now start to appeal to them with manifestos rather than...
Armenia: Domestic Violence
Unzipped: Gay Armenia is concerned by the latest figures from UNICEF which indicate that 22 percent of women in Armenia believe a husband has the right to beat his wife. However, the blog says that the figures are better than in Georgia and Uzbekistan where 30 and 70 percent respectively...
Trinidad & Tobago: Lion House
Thebookmann features a wall painting of Lion House in Trinidad, made famous by V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas.
Trinidad & Tobago: Expiration Date
KnowProSE.com discovers the importance of expiration dates…
Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago: Crime Connection?
“It's a cautionary tale that should tell us Jamaicans that poverty by itself does not cause crime”: Francis Wade tries to analyse the apparent connection between wealth and crime.
Haiti: Citizen Media & Transparency
kiskeácity wonders if citizen efforts to help Haiti should incorporate blogging.
Guyana: Living in the Now
Guyana-Gyal is happy to be exactly where she is, even as she looks toward the future “with great gusto, gung-ho and big gallops of hope”.
Cuba: Human Rights Day Demonstration
Child of the Revolution, The Cuban Triangle and Uncommon Sense all blog about a demonstration that took place in Havana on Human Rights Day.
Bahrain: Fikr 6 – Changing the World
Last week I was privileged to attend Fikr 6, a conference organised by the Arab Thought Foundation: In keeping with the mission of the Arab Thought Foundation to promote the unique culture and values of the Arab people, Fikr 6: Arab Strategies For the Global Era will assemble the smartest...
