Global Voices · Citizen media stories from February 2009

February, 2009

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Stories from February, 2009

15 February 2009

Lebanon: A Civil Marriage Valentine

Written by Antoun Issa · Middle East & North Africa

Renewed calls for Lebanon to allow civil marriages were made in a Valentine ceremony at a Beirut bar over the weekend. Several inter-religious couples staged mock weddings at a bar in Beirut's trendy Gemmayze district to protest the country's stiff marriage laws. Antoun Issa has more in this post.

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14 February 2009

Blogging Positively: Join the Global Conversation on HIV/AIDS

Written by Juhie Bhatia · Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia

This Valentine's Day (February 14) marks not only the start of a Global Voices campaign asking people to “Teach Someone You Love to Blog or Micro-Blog,” it also kicks off...

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Jordan: Empowering Women, Emos and Live Mesh

Written by Mohammad Azraq · Middle East & North Africa

Discussions on empowering women to the behaviour of teenagers to the latest new software which lets you synchronize your all your data on your computer are taking place at the Jordanian blogosphere this week. Mohammad Azraq brings us the latest.

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Egypt's Leading Women

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

Egyptian women, like many other women, have great potential once they unleash their power. Eva habil, Passant Refaat, and Radwa Saad El Din are three women who took the lead in three different fields. Marwa Rakha has more in this round up from Egypt's blogs.

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Brazil: A Falling Castle (and Congressman) in Two Acts

Written by Thiana Biondo · Latin America

Recently elected Vice-President and Ethics Magistrate of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, Edmar Moreira has resigned following only one week in the post, after a property of his – a medieval-style castle in the middle of tropical Brazil about which the tax office were not told – has suddenly come into the spotlight. Will he be investigated? Bloggers speculate on this tragic-comic plot.

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USA: Marrying for Love and Country

Written by Hoa Quach · North America

Whether for love or for visa, deciding whether to marry is never an easy thing. In the United States, where more than 12 million people live as "undocumented" immigrants, falling in love and getting married to an American is one way legal status can be resolved. Immigrant bloggers share their stories.

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Updates from February, 2009

23 February 2009

Ukraine

Linda Norris of The Uncataloged Museum lists legal and other obstacles that Ukrainian museums are facing, but concludes her post on a positive note, writing about some of the museum employees she has met: “They make minimal salaries, work in conditions that are hard to imagine (no heat, for instance, this week in several museum buildings I was in), work with limited resources, and sometimes with colleagues who resent hard work and enthusiasm. They care passionately about the work they do and are enthusiastic about new approaches and the opportunity to connect. Those people, one by one, are the good news for Ukrainian museums and their future.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Serbia

A Yankee-in-Belgrade writes about Belgrade's Museum of African Art.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Window on Eurasia writes that, according to UNESCO, “19 languages spoken on the territory of the Russian Federation a half century ago have ceased to exist, and 117 more are either in a position UN experts say is “unsafe” (21 languages), “definitely endangered” (47), “severely endangered” (29), or “critically endangered” (20).”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Moscow Through Brown Eyes writes about an article (RUS) on Moscow's Cherkizovsky Market that appeared in the latest issue of Bolshoi Gorod: “Each of these bewilderingly diverse stories could be the subject of its own article, if not an entire book. Taken together, however, these portraits add up to something more than glimpses at Moscow's diversity. They are evidence of a type of working-class multiculturalism that isn’t built on lofty rhetoric, but on the necessity of economic cooperation and mutual support.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Poland

The beatroot writes about the economic situation in Poland.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Poland

Polandian writes about the problem with the term “Central & Eastern Europe”: “I’m all for people reporting on Poland and even highlighting its problems, whatever they may be, but let’s please keep it specific to Poland. What I don’t like is people suggesting that Poland, Latvia, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania et al. are essentially one big country where everyone has the same problems!”

• Veronica Khokhlova

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