Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2011 December 01

1 December 2011

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Stories from 1 December 2011

Mozambique: Reactions to an Everyday Urban Tragedy

Written by Janet Gunter · Sub-Saharan Africa

Last week, Mozambican readers of the newspaper @Verdade reacted to the tragic and all-too-normal story of a man who was left to die near a Maputo marketplace after apparently suffering alcohol poisoning. Nearby police allegedly took over 24 hours to react. Residents in the vicinity said they were scared to intervene.

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Global Voices Podcast: Technology that Empowers!

Written by Jamillah Knowles · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

In this edition of the Global Voices podcast you can hear how women in Egypt are using technology to fight harassment, and what our Global Voices authors and editors got up to at the Mozilla Festival in London. We also mark World Aids Day by speaking to HIV/AIDS activists in Kenya and Egypt about the special work they do.

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Ethiopia: Homosexuality Debate as Capital Hosts AIDS Conference

Written by Markos Lemma · Sub-Saharan Africa

An upcoming conference in Ethiopia on AIDS and sexually transmitted infections in Africa has sparked controversy. Religious leaders and government officials have met to decide whether or not to ban gay rights activists from gathering. Netizens weigh in on the subject on Facebook.

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China, USA: Comparing Poverty Lines

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

China has decided to raise its poverty line to RMB 2,300 yuan (approximately USD 360) per capita income, but does the new poverty line reflect the reality of China's poor? And how does it compare to that of the United States?

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Hungary: Solidarity With the Homeless and the Poor

Written by Marietta Le · Eastern & Central Europe

Many citizen actions have been organized in the past weeks in Budapest in protest against the modification of the law that frames homelessness as an offence punishable with a €530 fine or imprisonment. Marietta Le reports.

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Updates from 1 December 2011

Venezuela

Centro Cultural Chacao and the blog Caracas Ciudad de la Furia [es] invited residents of Caracas to submit photos showing the positive side of the Venezuelan capital. You can see the participating photos in the contest's official Flickr gallery and read updates through their Twitter account (@ciudad_positiva) [es]. Winners will be announced December 1, 2011.

• Silvia Viñas

China

North Korea’s official news agency and Kim Jong-il's major propaganda outlet, Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) will start a Chinese news service this week. North Korea Tech blog wrote an analysis on the issue with background information on the news agency's history.

• Lee Yoo Eun

France

Rose (Pink) is a new bi-yearly French magazine for women living with breast cancer or who had survived one. The publication is resolutely upbeat and “glossy”, it covers health issues as well as fashion and beauty, to fight the stigma and silence attached to breast cancer. An online version of the first issue is available here [fr].

• Claire Ulrich

Madagascar

A passenger on a flight from Mauritius to Paris was convicted of racial abuse by a Malagasy court after he told a Malagasy flight attendant that [fr] “his ancestors were slaves and so is he because he is black. He (the passenger) is white therefore the flight attendant should do as he was told.” The incident occurred after an argument over a bottle of liquor in the plane.

• Lova Rakotomalala

Cuba

Translating Cuba notes that blogger Yoani Sanchez has been included Foreign Policy's list of Top 100 Global Thinkers.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

St. Vincent & the Grenadines

On World Aids Day, Abeni says: “The Caribbean has the second highest regional HIV prevalence after sub-Saharan Africa, although the epidemic has slowed considerably since the mid-1990s. The theme for World AIDS Day 2011 is ‘Getting to Zero.' In other words wrap it up, get tested, dismantle the AIDS related stigmas. Get the facts and act on them.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Barbados

As Barbadian fishermen appeared before a Tobago magistrate on charges of illegally entering the country yesterday, B.C. Pires suggests that “there’s something to be said…for one West Indian island locking up its brothers from another island on their Independence Day”, adding: “If you want to know what’s wrong with our West Indies cricket, it is that it is ours.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Guyana

Even as the votes are still being counted following Guyana's general election, Guyana-Gyal says: “Some might forget that they ain’t God, they gon want to dictate how the poor and the rich must live or die, how days must end and darkness begin…when all is said and done, good health and love is the only things that matter.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Portugal

The Facebook page of the group Artigo 21º (the article of the Portuguese Constitution that details the “right to resist”) has been disseminating original material containing facts related to the austerity measures, with posters like this. It informs “more than 400,000 workers do not make more than 485€ a month”.

• Ana Vasquez