Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2009 November 11

11 November 2009

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Stories from 11 November 2009

Palestine: Frustration With The “Swagger” Of Politics

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

Last week the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced that he would not stand for re-election in January, in frustration at the US failure to stop Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. In this post we hear the opinion of one blogger who is also extremely frustrated – with Palestinian politics.

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Lebanon finally has a government

Written by Antoun Issa · Middle East & North Africa

It's official. Five months after Lebanon's parliamentary elections, the country's squabbling factions have finally formed a government. Citizen journalists react in this post.

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Thailand-Cambodia diplomatic row heats up

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Thailand and Cambodia recalled their ambassadors. An energy exploration deal between the two nations was suspended. The issue is no longer confined to a border dispute. Check out the reactions of bloggers to the escalating diplomatic row between Thailand and Cambodia.

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Denmark: Immigrants offered money to leave the country

Written by Solana Larsen · Western Europe

Denmark is offering immigrants from “non-Western” countries 100,000 Danish kroners (US$20,000) if they volunteer to move “home”. A Facebook group protesting the law has been set up to collect 100,000 kroners to pay the leader of the anti-immigrant Danish People's Party to leave the country instead.

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Azerbaijan: Bloggers sentenced

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

As many of their supporters feared, and on the same day as a round table on the case against two detained video blogging youth activists, a court in Baku, Azerbaijan, earlier passed sentence on Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. The verdict and first reaction spread on Twitter.

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China: Drought and the Three Gorges Dam

Written by Andy Yee · East Asia

Since September this year, China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydropower scheme, has began a plan to raise its reservoir to its ideal height of 175 metres. In October, there has been severe drought in the provinces of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Is there any co-relation between the Dam and the drought?

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South Africa: Sesame Street's HIV-Positive Muppet Raises Awareness

Written by Juhie Bhatia · North America

As the children's show Sesame Street celebrates its 40th anniversary this month, premiering its new season today, one Muppet named Kami, on its South African edition, continues to help combat and raise awareness about HIV/AIDS.

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Updates from 11 November 2009

Sri Lanka

Chulie de Silva writes about the E-Swabhimani awards organized by the Information Communication Agency (ICTA), which honors Sri Lanka’s digital content developers/producers. The blogger also highlights some of the nominated projects.

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India

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) volunteer Nicola Macnaughton opines that the Indian government’s lack of involvement in tackling climate changes “raises serious concerns about equity, justice, and human rights in a country which is widely acknowledged as the world’s ‘largest democracy'.”

• Rezwan

Afghanistan

Brave New Foundation posts a petition and YouTube video with young veterans asking Obama not to send more troops to Afghanistan.

• Solana Larsen

India

Kochuthresiamma at ParelTank comments on Dalai Lama's visit in Arunachal Pradesh and India's relationship with China: “Too many things have been happening between India and China in the past few months – the incursions, the dam, issuing separate visas to Kashmiris by China, protesting against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh. Wonder what all these mean.”

• Rezwan

Haiti

“Haiti's Senate dismissed Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009″: HaitiAnalysis.com reports that some senators believe “the vote was ‘illegal' and plagued by procedural irregularities.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bahamas

Rick Lowe issues a few words of warning to the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce when it comes to doing business with Cuba: “The Chamber stands for ethics in business and I believe they are on shaky ground recommending we do business with a regime in Cuba that apparently does not honour basic human rights…”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Cuba

Both writing for Havana Times, Circles Robinson reports that the U.S. government has criticized the recent seizure of blogger Yoani Sanchez and two of her peers, noting that “Cuba maintains its rejection of any interference of the US government in its internal affairs”, while Pedro Campos suggests that “to reject unnecessary violence does not denigrate the revolutionary and socialist position; quite the contrary - it dignifies it.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco