Global Voices · Citizen media stories from September 2009

September, 2009

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Stories from September, 2009

8 September 2009

Egypt: US “Activist” Travis Randall Deported

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa, North America

American journalist Travis Randall has been denied entry to Egypt and then deported. Bloggers react to his treatment in this round up of posts by Marwa Rakha.

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Afghanistan: Animal House in Kabul

Written by Joshua Foust · Central Asia & Caucasus

Tim Lynch, an American security contractor in Afghanistan, used to work with the now-fired security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. He says: “The problem with the current guard...

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Venezuela: Another Miss Universe Crown

Written by Laura Vidal · Latin America

Miss Venezuela was selected as winner of the 2009 Miss Universe beauty pageant. Even though many Venezuelans are proud of the accomplishment, some bloggers question what this says about their own society.

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Kazakhstan: Lenin. More Alive Than the Living

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

Two similar messages have entered the Kazakh blogosphere from opposite ends of the country. They both talk about the revival of one symbol of a bygone era: head-and-shoulders statues of Lenin.

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Colombia: Medellín Celebrates its Festival of Flowers

Written by Catalina Restrepo · Latin America

Every year, the city of Medellín, Colombia, celebrates the Festival of Flowers. This celebration's defining symbol are the "silletas," which are flower displays that are carried throughout the city by the flower carriers.

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7 September 2009

Morocco: Child Labor Under the Spotlight

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa

A young girl is suffering in a hospital, bruised and beaten. Sent to work as a domestic servant at the age of 10, Zineb Chtit knew no other life than the one she had, working for affluent employers who beat her and refused her food.

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Updates from September, 2009

22 September 2009

Japan

A report titled “Why Japanese and Western people are infected with HIV in Thailand” by Doctor Kyo Taniguchi from NPO Gina covers statistics about sex workers and “Love, Marriage, and Hopeless love”.

• Tomomi Sasaki

Barbados

Doan Mind Me shares his conflicted thoughts on the news that US sprinter Tyson Gay has equalled Jamaican Usain Bolt's 100-metre Olympic record. “Is it that when I see a Jamaican/Caribbean man running them times then I believe that he's clean cause I more easily empathize with him than with an American?”

• Nicholas Laughlin