Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2009 May 19

19 May 2009

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Stories from 19 May 2009

Ecuador: The Legacy of Indigenous Leader Mama Tránsito

Written by Milton Ramirez · Latin America

Many Ecuadorians are mourning the passing of one of its indigenous leaders, Rosa Elena Tránsito Amaguaña, better known as "Mama Tránsito." Her role in society as an activist and defender of indigenous rights has made her an inspiration for her perserveance and courage.

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Malawi: Twittering Malawi Elections 2009

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

Seven candidates are running for president in the fourth presidential elections in Malawi, including the incumbent Bingu wa Mutharika for the Democratic Progressive Party and the main opposition figure John Tembo, standing for the opposition coalition. Voters are also choosing their members of parliament. Anyone interested in the elections can follow updates from Malawian micro-bloggers.

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Zambia: Live-Blogging a Groundbreaking HIV Discrimination Case

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

Priti Patel, project lawyer (HIV/Aids) for the Southern Africa Litigation Centre is in Livingstone, Zambia to live-blog a groundbreaking HIV discrimination case in the country.

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Kuwait: Election History: Four Women Win Parliament Seats

Written by Amer Al-Hilal · Middle East & North Africa

Election fever has swept Kuwait, culminating in a historic and momentous event for the nation! Kuwait was expecting at best one or two women to make it to Parliament but we got four (Dr. Aseel Al-Awadi, Dr. Rola Dashti, Dr. Salwa Al-Jassar and Dr. Masouma Mubarak)! Amer Al-Hilal here with an extra-large 'Special Edition Election' post from Kuwait with reactions from the Kuwaiti blogosphere.

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Egypt: President's Grandson Dies

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak's eldest grandson, Mohammed, has died at a Paris hospital after a brief illness. Bloggers were quick to react to the 13-year-old's death - which was met by silence in the Egyptian official media when the story first broke.

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Ukraine: 65th Anniversary of the Crimean Tatar Deportations

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

May 18 marked the 65th anniversary of Sürgün, the 1944 deportations of Crimean Tatars from their homeland in Crimea. J. Otto Pohl writes about the history of the deportations, while Maria Sonevytsky describes the current plight and the attitudes of the Crimean Tatars who have returned to live in Ukraine, and shares her thoughts on the changes that need to take place for the situation to improve.

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Malawi: Listen to Malawi Election Bloggers

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

Malawians are currently voting in the presidential and parliamentary elections. A group of Malawian bloggers were trained by PenPlusBytes, an International Institute of ICT Journalism in collaboration with New Media Institute to monitor and comment on the elections using blogs, twitter and mobile phones. Let's take a look at their blogs, which are hosted on The African Elections Portal. The African Elections Portal provides comprehensive election related information on the various countries in Africa.

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The IndiBlogger.in State of the Indian Blogosphere 2009

Written by Gaurav Mishra · South Asia

IndiBlogger.in is a vibrant community of Indian blogs with some excellent features like a topic-wise directory with ranks (IndiRank) and a meme-tracker (IndiVine). I have put together the highlights of some interesting data from the 7895 blogs that the aggregator crawls in an "IndiBlogger.in State of the Indian Blogosphere Dashboard".

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China: The democracy movement since 1989

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

During the last mother's Day weekend on May 10th, a number of intellectuals in Beijing organized a seminar discussing 20 years of the democracy movement in China. This is a...

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Egypt: El Korba Annual Festival Allows City's True Beauty to Shine

Written by Nermeen Edrees · Middle East & North Africa

El Korba, one of the oldest Cairene districts, celebrated its fifth peace festival on Friday. Many Heliopolis and Cairo residents from different districts await this annual event, where they can enjoy themselves and indulge in the beauty of the all time over crowded Heliopolitan district - which is closed to traffic on the day. Entertainment and cultural activities are the order of the day, when peace and diversity meet in one place.

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Updates from 19 May 2009

Bangladesh

Chowdhoury Mohibul Hassan Nowfel raises the question at E-Bangladesh whether the religious parties should be banned in Bangladesh.

• Rezwan

Bahrain

Mideast Youth has launched a widget generator to raise awareness on imprisoned bloggers, journalists and activists. “Setting up campaigns is not an easy task if you don’t have the right tools. There was one tool that we at Mideast Youth always felt was missing, and that was the ability to easily create and embed a widget to help spread the word on imprisoned bloggers, journalists or activists. So we simply felt the urge to build one! And we did,” explains Bahraini activist Esra'a.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Sri Lanka

The statement by Sri Lankan government yesterday was that LTTE leader Prabhakaran was killed, and burnt beyond recognition when he was trying to flee in an ambulance. The End, Rising from the ashes notices when the body was shown on TV: “nobody from the Government had yet clarified how the burnt body of Prabhakaran miraculously became fresh, with a single gunshot wound on his forehead.”

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Saudi Arabia

From Saudi Arabia, Nzingha shares her thoughts on why domestic violence will continue in the kingdom - where laws have remained unchanged despite the opening of shelters for women and the numerous conferences and meetings held to address this issue.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Yemen

Yemeni blogger Omar Barsawad takes us on a trip to Tarim in this post, which is dotted with photographs.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Kuwait

Kuwaiti blogger ZDistrict reviews Dan Brown's blockbuster Angels and Demons in this post. “I really recommend this movie, but I’m assuming if watched in Kuwait it will be really chopped up because it has so many religious references,” he notes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Morocco

From Morocco, The View from Fez shares the secrets of making the “perfect Moroccan mint tea” in this photo post.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Bahrain

Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif lends his voice to the Let Them Rust campaign, which aims to “force greedy car dealerships to reduce their prices.”
“The essence of this campaign is to not buy cars, let the stock rust if need be, until dealers take active steps to make car prices in Bahrain comparable to world markets,” he notes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Jordan

From Jordan, Kinzi notes her admiration for Queen Rania's efforts on curbing child abuse. “It’s not too late to highlight her amazing ability to both take responsibility for temporary failure, point out the problems, call a spade a spade, and inspire leaders to attack the problem with renewed vigor,” writes the blogger.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Sri Lanka

A Voice In Colombo discusses about the two priorities Sri Lanka needs to address after the end of civil war; helping the IDPs and taking care of the injured veterans and families of the deceased.

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Taiwan: When News is Sold to the Chinese Government

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