Global Voices · Citizen media stories from October 2009

October, 2009

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Stories from October, 2009

28 October 2009

Videos on how Maternal Mortality Affects Communities

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia

When a woman dies during pregnancy, childbirth or due to complications after delivery, it affects not only the family, but also the whole community.

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Mozambique: Expectations toward the ‘09 elections

Written by Frederico Dava · Sub-Saharan Africa

For the first time, Mozambique simultaneously hosts presidential, legislative and provincial parliament elections, the latter are the first in the history of the country.

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China's Dark Satanic Mills

Written by Robert Woo · East Asia

On Oct. 14th, Chinese photographer Lu Guang won this year's $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his photos on China’s environment. The Fund’s website posts the following...

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Uruguay: Presidential Election Heads for Runoff

Written by Mario Blanco · Latin America

The Uruguayan President election is heading to a runoff to take place on November 29, as no candidate reached the needed 50% + 1 mark during the first round held on October 25.

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Hungary, Serbia: Tragedy At The Border

Written by Marietta Le · Eastern & Central Europe

A group of 19 Kosovo Albanians tried to cross the Hungarian-Serbian river border illegally on Oct. 15; fifteen of them are now reported missing; three bodies have been found by divers. Marietta Le reports on some of the reactions in the Hungarian blogosphere.

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27 October 2009

Disaster Management and the role of ICTs

Written by Aparna Ray · East Asia, South Asia

In a first post of the series, we explore the role of ICTs in Disaster Management and the paradigm shift in Disaster Management strategies that came about post the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004.

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Dominican Republic: Cancer Awareness Campaigns

Written by Rocio Diaz · Latin America

Cancer prevention campaigns in the Dominican Republic have been raising awareness for prevention and treatment, as well as providing support to those families that have been afflicted with the disease.

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Azerbaijan: Video blogger trial postponed… again (updated)

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

In what many consider to be a politically motivated trial to stifle dissent in Azerbaijan, video blogging youth activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli once again appeared in court in Baku today.

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Featured Editor: Veronica Khokhlova

Written by David Sasaki · Eastern & Central Europe

Veronica Khokhlova has been Global Voices' Central and Eastern Europe Editor since January 2006 when she first published an "Introduction to the Ukrainian Blogosphere". She splits her time between Kyiv, Moscow, and Istanbul.

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Nepal's Dalit Women: Fighting For Dignity

Written by Bhumika Ghimire · Nepal

The constitution of Nepal guarantees equality for the dalits or the 'untouchables'. But in the real world, outside long winding provisions of the constitution and legalese, the dalits are still openly treated as less than human.

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Updates from October, 2009

30 October 2009

Barbados

“In the Barbados context teachers, policemen and nurses represent core professions which are key to building and sustaining a productive society”: Barbados Underground is afraid these callings are in crisis.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Guyana

“Recent years have found the Caribbean embroiled in the challenges of drug trafficking, money laundering, murder, rape, robbery and crimes of all sorts”: Guyana's caribbeanlawbytes wonders whether the region is ready for restorative justice.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Egypt

Wandering Scarab does not believe that Egyptian women know what they really want; their actions demonstrate that they don't really want equality or freedom; they do not even know what freedom is; they want to be free within cages of their own creation. They love being Damsels in Distress.

• Marwa Rakha

Russia

Oleg Kozlovsky links to and quotes from the text of a briefing held by US Helsinki Commission/Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which included “a few recent examples of how we utilized Web 2.0 to spread information about electoral fraud” in Russia.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Oleg Kozlovsky reports on a scandal that broke out after riot police used - during a drill - “water cannons, shock grenades, and tear gas” to disperse “a group of senior citizens that protested social injustice and blocked a federal highway.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Profy reports on the demise of Nokia's LiveJournal community: “But unfortunately for everyone (Nokia, the editorial team, and the overall corporate usage of social media) the community only existed for 25 days and was closed last week with the PR representative citing the fact that many bloggers used the community in a manner the company did not predict it could be used in.”

• Veronica Khokhlova