Global Voices · Citizen media stories from October 2009

October, 2009

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Stories from October, 2009

23 October 2009

Brazil: Between democracy and doubt

The country awaits its first National Conference of Communication that will signal a very first step in democratising Brazil’s communications system.

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Adoption: Securing the Rights of Mothers and Children

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

Women speak out from all sides of the issue: adoptees, natural mothers and adoptive mothers try to make sense of the legal, reproductive and human rights issues behind adoptions.

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Activism and Motherhood in Asia

Written by Daniel Chandranayagam · East Asia

What does a woman sacrifice for the cause she fights for? How are her children affected by persecution taken against her? This post explores briefly the lives of women activists in Asia who are also mothers.

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Morocco: Education Under Bloggers' Scrutiny

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Middle East & North Africa

Torn between insistent calls for modernization and a powerful conservative drive; caught in an excruciating debate over which languages to include in its programs; overburdened by an opaque and centralized administration, the Moroccan education system has long been the target of passionate critiques, not least among bloggers.

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Russia: Soviet Legacy and Street Names

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

A few weeks ago, it seemed as if every single Russian blogger took the time to write something about the re-naming of Anti-Soviet Shish Kebab Restaurant in Moscow, a dissident journalist's protest article and a pro-Kremlin youth movement's counter-protest activities. One blogger alluded to the scandal in a post about street names that kept on preserving the questionable Soviet legacy.

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22 October 2009

Online Tools to Monitor Climate Change

Written by Lester Bolicenni · Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia

Leading up to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) in December 2009, here is a sample of online tools to monitor climate change.

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Updates from October, 2009

28 October 2009

Reunion

In the midst of the International Creole Month, Guadeloupean blogger CaribCreoleOne discusses [Fr] the now official use of Creole language alongside French in all the administrative procedures and places, in the city of Le Port in Reunion.

• Fabienne Flessel

Pakistan

Ahsan at Five Rupees lists four things to be aware of during the Waziristan offensive against the Taliban insurgents by Pakistan army.

• Rezwan

India

The Acorn opines that the major Indian political party BJP must elect its next leader to lift the party from political turmoil.

• Rezwan

India

“India’s climate policy must be founded on the development needs of the majority of its population and the needs of India’s future development,” opines Prabir Purkayastha at Roger reports.

• Rezwan

Bangladesh

Ulysses at Back To Bangladesh wonders how the sidewalk booksellers in Dhaka streets, who sell cheap bootleg bestsellers during traffic jam, pick up which books to sell. The blogger asks: “do people buy these books because there is nothing else affordable? Or do they really read these books?”

• Rezwan