Global Voices · Citizen media stories from December 2009

December, 2009

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Stories from December, 2009

7 December 2009

Africa: Marking World AIDS Day Poetically

Written by Njeri Wangari · Sub-Saharan Africa

Blogger poets in Africa mark World Aids Day 2009 with selective words to describe the registry of emotions triggered by a pandemic that still sees no end.

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ICT4D for Women: Opportunities and Risks

Written by Aparna Ray · Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia

Mobile phones present opportunities for development as well as risks for further abuse and marginalization of women. Gender awareness is crucial when it comes to using ICT for development.

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6 December 2009

Iran: Tensions Rise as Student Day Approaches

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

The Iranian opposition has planned a large demonstration for Monday, December 7 as Iran marks the annual Students Day. Online expressions of solidarity are appearing worldwide.

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Australia Faces 2010 Climate Change Election

Written by Kevin Rennie · Oceania

The fortnight before Copenhagen has seen a topsy-turvy political bun-fight in Australian climate politics. The Rudd Labor government’s Emissions Trading Scheme Bill was amended after negotiations with the conservative Liberal National Coalition, only to be defeated by them in the Senate

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Indonesia: Coins for justice

Written by Carolina Rumuat · East Asia

Netizens have launched a campaign to collect the money in form of coins to show support for Prita Mulyasari, an Indonesian housewife who wrote an online complaint against a bad hospital service, was found guilty in court for "defaming" a private hospital.

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HIV spread in Indonesia

Written by Carolina Rumuat · East Asia

Indonesia is facing a huge challenge in tackling the spread of HIV virus in the country. Health agencies believe that the number of HIV-positive patients are bigger than currently reported.

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Updates from December, 2009

23 December 2009

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

“For me, nothing describes the enigma of Puerto Rico better than its sorted relationship with tourism”: Dondequiera explains.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Barbados

“Entering 2010 the challenge for Barbados must be to build a roadmap and find the financial resources to rollout policies and projects which will reposition the economy of Barbados to grow GDP”: Barbados Underground wonders if the country is resting on its laurels.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Barbados

Barbados' Notes From A Small Rock cannot believe the trouble she is having with the Customs & Excise Department over two scooters she bought for her children for Christmas: “The rules provide an unbeatable combination of broad discretion coupled with a lack of transparency.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bangladesh

J. Rahman at Mukti talks about the recent inflation of Bangladesh and opines that the real cause of increase in the price of rice is because of the relationship between the Bangladeshi Taka - Indian Rupee exchange rate.

• Rezwan

India

The Acorn analyzes what India has achieved from the Copenhagen summit. The blogger opines that the “real gains were geopolitical—neither the United States nor China could have their way without India’s support”.

• Rezwan

Russia

LJ user bablaw wrote an open letter [Google translation - ENG] to the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev calling him to veto amendments to the Civil Code that would make technical standards [ENG] closed to the general public.

• Alexey Sidorenko

Egypt

An Italian born gentile living in Jerusalem, Shiksa's Laura Chiesa dreams of a utopic Middle East. “Call me naive, but I caught myself more than once daydreaming about the time were people (including me) will travel freely in the Middle East - how about an afternoon hibiscus tea in Damascus, before or after an hammam bath in Lebanon? Shall we drop by the Pyramids on the way?”

• Maya Norton