Global Voices · Citizen media stories from July 2010

July, 2010

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Stories from July, 2010

15 July 2010

Kazakhstan: Kazakh blogs on national issues

Written by Askhat Yerkimbay · Central Asia & Caucasus

Lately I have often seen posts about national problems in Kazakh language blogs. I am going to review some of them. Ainash Esali in a post titled “The government should...

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14 July 2010

Macedonia: The Curse of ‘Bipartisanship'

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe, North America

Veteran Macedonian bloggers express the widely held opinion among their compatriots who are not sympathizers of political parties about feeling hostage to a system without independent alternatives.

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Borneo Island: Uniting bloggers through Borneo Colours

Written by Senor Pablo · East Asia

Borneo Colours is a website that links bloggers from Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, Labuan (Malaysia) and Kalimantan (Indonesia) which are all located in the island of Borneo. It's a platform for the bloggers in this region to network and create greater understanding about their neighbours.

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Serbia: One Pair of Shoes, One Life

Written by Sinisa Boljanovic · Eastern & Central Europe

Charged with genocide by the Hague Tribunal for the brutal deaths of more than 8000 Muslims in this Bosnian town on 11 July 1995, General Ratko Mladic has not been arrested yet.

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Brazil: Afro-Brazilian Claims to Affirmative Action Denied

Written by Manuela Tenreiro · Latin America

After nearly a decade discussing the Racial Equality Statute, last month the Brazilian senate finally approved it. Out of the document are the most controversial demands from Afro-Brazilian movements: a quota system of affirmative action in both education and the job market.

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Rwanda: Paul Kagame Supporters Turn to Power of Twitter, Facebook and Blogs

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

Supporters of President of the Republic of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, have turned to the power of Facebook, Twitter and blogs to help him win presidential election that will be held in Rwanda on 9 August 2010.

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Updates from July, 2010

26 July 2010

Guatemala

A blogger for Interactiva Web writes [es] about a group of Guatemalan and North American engineers who are working on technology to help the environment. The group is called Xela Teco [es].

• Silvia Viñas

Ghana

Maameous recommends a few Ghanaian beaches worth exploring.

• Elia Varela Serra

Bahamas

“If…young Bahamians imagine that they can take their twenty-first century notions of black and white and translate them into what they may one day read about the history of this nation, they will never fully understand their country and its rich and difficult past”: Nicolette Bethel explains the significance of race.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bhutan

Cho at Writers Association Of Bhutan Blog advocates for equality for women in Bhutanese societies and comments: “sad to say but sexism in Bhutan starts from homes and parents yell at their daughters for not cooking a delicious meal till she finally perfects it.”

• Rezwan

Bermuda

“I do believe that whether we like it or not, blogs are now part of the media. By definition we publish publicly and with that freedom comes responsibility” - which is why Breezeblog has voluntarily adopted the Media Council of Bermuda’s Code of Practice.

• Janine Mendes-Franco