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20 April 2010

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Stories from 20 April 2010

Bangladesh: Let Language Be Free

The Bangla blogosphere and Bangladeshi Facebook users are angry with protests as 'Avro', a freeware and one of the popular and widely used Bangla input systems, was accused as a pirated version of another proprietary Bangla input system 'Bijoy' and the Avro team was mentioned as hackers.

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Costa Rica: Clashes Over Autonomy on UCR Campus

Written by Adriana Vargas · Latin America

On April 12, 2010, Costa Rican police officers arrived to the University of Costa Rica to detain a campus transit officer, accused of corruption. However, members of the university community said that this attempted arrest goes against the university's status of autonomy, which led to clashes.

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Peru: Lima Residents Run to Raise Awareness for Water Issues

Written by Gabriela García Calderón · Latin America

On April 18, 2010, residents of Lima participated in the Dow Live Earth Run for Water, a 6-km run/walk, which represents the average distance many women and children walk every day to secure water and raised awareness about the serious water issues facing Peru.

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Egypt: Let's Shoot those Protesters!

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

In a debate on recurrent demonstrations, Egyptian ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) members of Parliament lashed out during a verbal battle with Muslim Brotherhood MPs over protesters in the country and said Egyptian pro-democracy demonstrators “should be shot” by police. Bloggers react in this post by Marwa Rakha.

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Venezuela: Community Theater Addresses Urban Realities

Written by Laura Vidal · Latin America

Nuevo Circo Artístico is a Venezuelan project that uses community theater to engage youth in Caracas to explore the realities of their urban surroundings.

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Updates from 20 April 2010

Brazil

Brazilian cyber-activist João Carlos Caribé calls on bloggers [pt] for a mass blogging against the ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). According to the EFF, the ACTA text will be made public this Wednesday, April 21.

• Diego Casaes

Bahamas

Bahamian Nicolette Bethel is “one of the million or more ‘ash refugees' around the world.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Dominica

Dominica Weekly highlights three must-see attractions of the Morne Trois Pitons National Park.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

“How dare you squander the resources by giving so much lip service and not doing much of anything…Shucks, did you think I was talking about the PNM/ UNC/COP?”: 5am at Mango Media Caribbean has a message for the voting population of Trinidad and Tobago.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Cuba

El Cafe Cubano links to a story which claims that imprisoned hunger striker Guillermo Fariñas is close to death, while Uncommon Sense reports that yet another Cuban political prisoner has started a hunger strike.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Guyana

Peter Sam contributes a one-of-a-kind story to Signifyin' Guyana that deals with “the usefulness of the eggplant”.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bangladesh

Bangladesh Corporate Blog advocates for a ‘National HR Policy for White Collars' in Bangladesh because, there is no specific Law for employees in the private sector.

• Rezwan

India

Paritosh Chakma at Musings of a Chakma reports with photos that on the 13th April 2010, three social organizations organized “Bizu 2010” (Chakma new year) celebrations in New Delhi, India.

• Rezwan

Kenya

Kenyan Pundit on Kibera, flying toilets and poop: “I have been wanting to write this for a while now. Especially after I read about Peepoo: a biodegradable plastic bag that acts as a single-use toilet for urban slums in the developing world. Inspired by the ever ubiquitous Kibera flying toilets.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Sudan

Hafiz discusses corruption in Sudan Elections 2010: “There is one very important issue which has not been raised by anyone, as I have listened to all reports from the election observers , until now , that is the buying and selling of votes and loyalty.”

• Ndesanjo Macha