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Solana Larsen

Managing Editor

About Solana Larsen

42 posts · joined 2007-05-30

I am a Danish-Puerto Rican journalist and activist, and I live in New York. I am the managing editor of Global Voices (this website), and used to be an editor with openDemocracy.net. My personal blog is solanasaurus.com and I blog in Danish about technology at blogbyblog.dk. Hablo Español.

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June 18th, 2009

East Asia , Western Europe

Isabel Hilton, the founder of Chinadialogue.net, a bilingual English-Chinese website about the environment, was admitted to the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her work promoting environmental awareness in China.

June 15th, 2009

USA, Singapore: On Buying Brides with Credit Cards

The Human Trafficking blog by Amanda Kloer at Change.org in the United States declared victory on Friday in their campaign to get the credit card company Diners Club International to stop doing business with a company in Singapore that sells Vietnamese mail order brides. More than 800 people signed a petition to get Diners Club to stop making it easier to purchase women for marriage.

June 12th, 2009

Denmark: #TV2Wikigate

Last month, two Danish television hosts aiming to show that the participatory online encyclopedia Wikipedia is unreliable, instead ended up defending their own credibility when it was uncovered that the errors they showed off on television had been created by someone working for the program.

June 10th, 2009

Middle East & North Africa , East Asia

Roxana Saberi, the American journalist who was imprisoned for four months in Iran, is asked by the CPJ blog what she would say to journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee who were recently sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea.

June 9th, 2009

Global Voices Advocacy Wins Zemanta Blog Contest

Global Voices Advocacy won first prize in Zemanta's Blogging for a Cause competition today. More than 60 different websites were nominated, and the top 5 to receive the most votes from bloggers have each won $1200. Thanks for all the support!!

May 21st, 2009

Americas

A blogger from Underground Undergrads who campaigns for citizenship rights for undocumented students in the United States describes a meeting with vice president Joe Biden.