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July 5th, 2008

Western Sahara: A new Sahrawi satellite TV station

Yazan Badran · 20:46

lingua → ar

This will be our first attempt to cover the Sahrawi blogsphere. I, alongside Jillian York and Renata Avila will try to shed light on what the Sahrawi bloggers are saying each week, in Arabic, English and Spanish. The topic of Western Sahara is one of a very complex background, and ... 4 comments · »»

July 3rd, 2008

Bahrain: Bloggers’ Code of Ethics Against Sectarianism

Ayesha Saldanha · 17:25

lingua → mk · ar

With the political divide in Bahrain usually framed in sectarian terms, blogger Mahmood Al Yousif has posted a code of ethics aimed at stopping the propagation of hate online. 0 comments · »»

July 2nd, 2008

Ukraine: Grassroots Activism

Veronica Khokhlova · 22:49

lingua → fr

Many Ukrainians, fed up with a culture of lawlessness that is flourishing in their country, are becoming increasingly involved in grassroots activism. One of the latest rallies - Velonayizd ("Bicycle Attack") - took place in Kyiv on June 21, when nearly 500 cyclists, bikers and pedestrians gathered in front of the municipal police headquarters for a Critical Mass-type event, prompted by the recent deaths of at least two cyclists and the authorities' failure to bring the perpetrators to justice. 2 comments · »»

June 30th, 2008

GV Summit- Day Two Completed!

Deborah Ann Dilley · 08:19

lingua → es · mg · mk

While Day One of the Global Voices Summit focused on Advocacy, today focused more upon Global Voices proper, with information presented on the other GV projects of Rising Voices and Lingua. The day began with an introduction by Georgia Poppelwell (GV Managing Director) and Solana Larsen (GV Managing Editor), in which ... 3 comments · »»

June 28th, 2008

GV Summit: Day One a Success!

Jillian York · 09:40

lingua → it · es · mg · mk

The first day of the Global Voices 2008 Summit in Budapest, Hungary was a wild success, as far as we can see (obviously we can't know all of the implications this early in the game). The morning started with an introduction from Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, founders of ... 3 comments · »»

June 27th, 2008

Palestine: She Shoots, She Scores

Maya Norton · 09:58

lingua → mk · pt · mg · bn

Muna Nawajaa has scored a victory for social justice. Using a camera given to her by B'Tselem's Shooting Back project, Palestinian Nawajaa recorded the masked beating of members of her family, resulting in an investigation and arrest of suspects by Israeli police. In a post entitled "Cameras as Weapons," Uriel Hellman ... 0 comments · »»

June 24th, 2008

Uzbekistan: Fighting internet censorship

Tolkun · 11:41

lingua → mg

Today, Uzbekistan is remaining one of the repressive countries in the region that maintains a tight grip on mass media. Despite it has all the nominal guarantees of the freedom of speech, the media is being systematically attacked by the government. The article 5 in the law of the Republic ... 0 comments · »»

June 19th, 2008

Iran: Citizen Media Sex Scandal

Hamid Tehrani · 14:14

lingua → mk · pt · ar · bn · jp

Earlier this month, students at Zanjan University in North-West Iran recorded and uploaded a video of their school's vice president, Hassan Madadi, with his shirt unbuttoned, allegedly preparing to have sex with a female student. Several Iranian websites and blogs say the female student had alerted her university's Islamic Student ... 2 comments · »»

Links about Cyber-Activism

July 5th, 2008

Russian Cyberspace posts an update about a Russian blogger on trial and internet censorship.

Red.CBGB at Bullog.cn has posted several of the images from Amnesty International's Beijing Olympics human rights campaign in a photo post, ‘Olympic project'. ‘It feels like a little too much,' writes one reader. ‘This is no exaggeration at all,' writes another, ‘but the truth is always hard for anyone to take.'

July 4th, 2008

Soon after the facebook launched its Chinese version, it is blocked. Onemanbandwidth wrote, “Free facebook!“

July 3rd, 2008

According to several news sites Iran's parliament is set to debate a draft bill which could see the death penalty used for those deemed to promote corruption, prostitution and apostasy on the Internet. According to this draft bill bloggers can face the death penalty too.

LJ user tapirr posts Masha Novikova's documentary about Anna Politkovskaya: “Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline” (RUS, with English subtitles).

July 2nd, 2008

Nasim Fekrat reports that the second round of blogging workshop was held for tens of Afghan journalists and writers in ancient city of Bamian.

Nasim Fekrat, Afghan blogger, informs us that Afghan Association of Blog Writers organized the second blogging workshop in Afghanistan,in city of Bamyan, in June. Watch the photos here.