Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 October 02

2 October 2008

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Stories from 2 October 2008

USA: Voices without Votes watch the Debate

Written by Solana Larsen · North America

You may not be able to see Russia from your backyard, but if you tune into Global Voices' U.S election website, Voices without Votes, you can learn about what the whole world has to say about tonight's debate between the U.S. vice presidential candidates, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.

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Jamaica: A Nation Mourns

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

Jamaica is in mourning as the headless body of a little girl believed to be 11-year-old Ananda Dean was discovered weeks after her abduction. This harrowing end to the search for Dean is made even more disturbing by the fact that more than fifty children have been murdered in Jamaica since the start of the year. Bloggers are as shocked as the rest of the population, and are making their voices heard in an effort to examine how such brutal acts against minors have become so widespread.

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Jamaica: Save our children

Written by Bianca Welds · Caribbean

Jamaicans of all ranks are mourning the plight of the nation's children. The figures show that nearly 60 children have been killed since the start of January 2008. A recent...

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Hong Kong: Banned Halloween Ads

Written by Oiwan Lam · Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia

Every year, the Ocean Park in Hong Kong would organize Halloween party for attracting visitors. However, its advertisements faced a lot of complaints from the public. This year, some of...

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Russia: Eid ul-Fitr in Moscow

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Over 30,000 Muslims reportedly came to the Moscow Cathedral Mosque for a communal prayer on Sept. 30, the first day of Eid ul-Fitr, a Muslim holiday known in Russia as Uraza Bayram, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan. Russian bloggers' reactions ranged from hostile to positive, and below is a translation of some of them.

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Updates from 2 October 2008

Brazil

Sapataria [Pt], a Brazilian blog about LGBT and women's rights, posts pictures of a recent protest promoted by gender-issues-related groups against the legal views on abortion in Brazil, and shares their two-cents on the issue: “In many countries, the criminalization of abortion afects directly the poor women, most of them with black skin, who have almost no access to health services and contraceptive methods. […] It's an attempt against the dignity and autonomy of these women, most of them poor, with no access to juridical or psychological suport.”

• Daniel Duende

Nepal

Sangam.Silpakar from Nepal posted a detailed analysis on the Nepalis pursuing the ‘American dream'.

• Rezwan

India

Rajesh Jain at Emergic complains about air traffic in Mumbai, India: “Circling (of a flight) over Mumbai for 30-60 minutes has become commonplace thanks to the air traffic congestion.”

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Pakistan

The Pakistani Spectator says : ” ‘War on terror' never became popular within Pakistan and it never got any support from public. One of the main reasons for people not supporting ‘war on terror' is the concept where people believe that this is America’s war against Muslims – or to be more precise, against Islam.”

• Rezwan

Bangladesh

Although the recent declaration of general election had eased the political tensions in Bangladesh, a renewed complexity is developing over the mandatory registration requirement of the political parties. An Ordinary Citizen has details.

• Rezwan

India

M. J. Akbar ponders whether the renewed rise of despair amongst the Muslim population, due to some negligence and discrimination by the government, has a link to the recent terrorist attacks in India.

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Senegal

Ria writes about Islam and the confusion about Ramadan in Senegal: “Thus for some, Ramadan ended yesterday; for most it was today, declared a national holiday by the Government. One final confusion: the festival to mark the end of Ramadan is called Korité in Senegal, but is known elsewhere in the Muslim world as Aïd-el-fitr.”

• Ndesanjo Macha