Global Voices · Citizen media stories from November 2009

November, 2009

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Stories from November, 2009

11 November 2009

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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10 November 2009

India: Women Farmers Stand Against Climate Change

Written by Belen Bogado · South Asia

A group of women in India have demonstrated that despite the existing gender inequity and their low economic status, they can become a powerful resource to tackle climate change and reduce the emissions that cause it.

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Cameroon: From “kind” thieves to mobile credit as legal tender

Written by George Esunge Fominyen · Sub-Saharan Africa

The nearly 20 million inhabitants of Cameroon are facing rising levels of criminality. Bandits even stormed the national headquarters of the police and the Ministry of External Relations (Foreign Affairs) in the capital city, Yaounde.

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Updates from November, 2009

23 November 2009

Afghanistan

Peter Marton reacts to the news that the US could start holding Afghanistan’s government accountable for corruption by withholding money for projects, and says that corruption in this country often is a consequence of the US policies.

• Adil Nurmakov

Japan

@Minori_okd points us to the photographic work MINAMATA by W. Eugene Smith and Ailejjen M. Smith that covers the Minamata Disease.

• Tomomi Sasaki

Trinidad & Tobago

KnowTnT.com's Edmund Gall suggests ways in which clubs and bars can “do more to encourage responsible drinking.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

From the tobacco legislation to the carbon footprint post-CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago, Coffeewallah asks: “Has everybody in this country lost their cotton picking minds?”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bermuda

In the wake of the shutdown of several transportation routes in Bermuda, BeachLime.com wonders “what exactly Government sees its public transportation role as.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

22 November 2009