Global Voices · Citizen media stories from September 2010

September, 2010

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Stories from September, 2010

13 September 2010

Afghanistan: Kabul Bank on the brink of collapse

Written by Fred Petrossian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Financial crisis is not a luxury reserved for rich countries. Kabul Bank in Afghanistan, which is part-owned by the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, is on the edge of a $1 billion collapse.

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Nigeria: Oil Wealth Flows, Hunger Persists

Written by Juhie Bhatia · Sub-Saharan Africa

As the BP oil spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and its aftermath continue to make headlines, the catastrophe has also brought a little global media attention to the oil-related woes in another country—Nigeria.

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Iran: Jailed Blogger Shiva Nazar Ahari is Freed on $500,000 Bail

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Shiva Nazar Ahari, a jailed human rights activist and blogger, was freed yesterday. According to several news websites, Shiva was released on $500,000 bail. She went to trial in handcuffs in early September and was accused of involvement with the organization, People's Mujahedin of Iran.

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Global: If there is no water, there is no life

Written by Victor Kaonga · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

The Twentieth gathering for the World Water Week (WWW) took place in Sweden's Capital Stockholm from the 5th to the 11th of September 2010 with the theme The Water Quality Challenge-Prevention, Wise Use and Abatement. According to the organisers, “urbanisation, agriculture, industry and climate change exert mounting pressure on both the quantity and quality of our water resources.”

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Indonesia: Online rage over attack on church leaders

Written by Carolina Rumuat · East Asia

Two Christian church leaders were stabbed during a Sunday service in Indonesia which enraged netizens. As a protest, Facebookers were encouraged to "blank out" their profile pictures.

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Armenia-Azerbaijan: Backseat musical musings… and ethnic conflict

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

With the broadcast media heavily controlled in both Armenia and Azerbaijan there are few avenues left for independent journalists. Bloggers in both countries, however, react to a video posted online.

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Updates from September, 2010

27 September 2010

Freedom of Speech

The Moscow Diaries writes about last week's gay rights activists' protest against Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov: “It was sad to see, this protest. The protesters were so few that they were barely visible among the gajillion photographers and two gajillion police officers. Within a few minutes, eleven of the protesters were grabbed and hauled off — very roughly and cringe-worthily — by police […].”

• Veronica Khokhlova

China

Veggie Discourse translated Chinese netizens' reaction to the Chinese Asylum Seekers' 2 days rooftop protest in Sidney.

• Oiwan Lam

Russia

On her blog and in a Moscow News column, Natalia Antonova writes about the search for Liza Fomkina and her aunt, who went missing in a town near Moscow on Sept. 13, and whose bodies were found last week: “According to RIA Novosti, the main search and rescue efforts were conducted by volunteers and people living nearby. Since Liza’s body has been found, plenty of volunteers have gone on record to say that they believed the official rescue efforts to have been poorly organized and insufficient.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

South Korea

South Korea won the U-17 Women's World Cup for the first time.Korea’s online media Pressian[kr] focused on women team’s humble beginning; it started out to boost cultural exchanges with North Korea, and the player's quality was an optional matter. In 1990, it lost to Japan by 13-1 and to North by 0-7.

• Lee Yoo Eun

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