GlobalVoices

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• Growing middle class spells trouble for climate

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 854
  Next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen already have the blogosphere atwitter with commentary - optimistic, cynical and everything in between. Parthasarthy Guha tells a different story. Guha doesn’t analyze emissions targets or backroom dealings...
  2 days ago

• GV post – Poland: Catholics Propose Adding Cross to National Emblem

  
  Sylwia Presley — Authority: 118
  The recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Soile Lautsi, who was offended by crucifixes displayed in her child’s school in Italy, states : The compulsory display of a symbol of a given confession in premises used by the public authorities… restricted the right of parents to educate ...
  3 days ago

• New Global Voices Initiative Tracks Suppression of Bloggers

  
  Committee to Protect Bloggers — Authority: 487
  Threatened Voices home page Global Voices Advocacy has launched a new tool to track and map oppression of voices online. Threatened Voices , as the initiative is called, launched on November 3 and provides detailed information on bloggers and social media users who have been arrested or otherwise threatened for ...
  5 days ago

• Global Voices Featured Editor: Onnik Krikorian

  
  Armenia & the South Caucasus | The Caucasian Knot — Authority: 400
  Onnik Krikorian is a British blogger, journalist, and photographer of Armenian decent who has been living in Yerevan, one of the world’s oldest continuously-inhabited cities, for the past 11 years. He is the Caucasus Editor for Global Voices where he amplifies the latest discussions taking place among bloggers in ...
  1 week ago

• Interview with Elena Ignatova of Metamorphosis

  
  El Oso — Authority: 498
  Here’s my latest Global Voices celebrity profile – this time Elena Ignatova who covers Macedonia on Global Voices, is in charge of Global Voices in Macedonian, and works for the Metamorphosis Foundation, which seeks to seeks to enhance the use of information in Macedonian government and society. Among the posts we ...
  1 week ago

• Worlds adults must honour vow to children

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 854
  In 1989, the world came together and promised to protect the rights of children. Twenty years later, it’s clear we failed.
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• The Ethics and Responsibility of Paying Attention

  
  El Oso — Authority: 498
  The World Blogging Forum proved to be even more surreal than Internet Hungary . (More on that later in a separate post.) We were only give the topics we were to speak about upon arrival, and I was asked to speak about “ethics and responsibility.” What follows is less a prepared presentation and more some ...
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• War and Peace and Vietnam

  
  AsianWeek — Authority: 498
  Andrew Lam, Vietnamese-American Author and Co-Founder of New America Media, was keynote speaker on the occasion of the 14th Anniversary of Peacetrees Vietnam , whose aim is to renew relationships with the people of Vietnam and promote a safe, healthy future for its families & children. It sponsors demining and ...
  1 week ago

• Link of the Random Interval of Time (LotRIoT), 11-11-2009: Threatened Voices

  
  Litlets — Authority: 486
  The struggle for freedom never endsl
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• TouchGraph, monitoring yourself

  
  Sylwia Presley — Authority: 118
  As a blogger I tend to Google my name time to time to see who uses my content and generally – where does my name appear. I also spend more time on Facebook this month learning its dynamics all over again, and just came accross TouchGraph Facebook app which graphed my contacts very accurately. As you can ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who has the best mortgage deals?

  
  Financial Planning — Authority: 435
  I am a first time buyer and ive found a lovely flat for myself. However, im still looking for a mortgage but i just dont know who to go to. The thing is the mortgage advisor is saying that i cant get a mortgage on my own, i will have to get it with someone [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Tunisian Blogger Fatma Arabicca Could Face Three Years in Prison

  
  Committee to Protect Bloggers — Authority: 487
  Last week, Tunisian blogger Fatma Riahi was detained on possible libel charges. According to Sami Ben Gharbia of Global Voices Advocacy : On Monday, November 2nd, 2009, Tunisian blogger and college Theatre professor, Fatma Riahi (34), known online as Arabicca, was summoned to appear before the Criminal Brigade ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tearing down the Walls nuclear legacy

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 854
  Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell, marking the end of the Cold War. But it didnt tear down the legacy of the more than 23,000 nuclear warheads still in existence.
  2 weeks ago

• Blogger Yoani Sanchez Briefly Detained

  
  Committee to Protect Bloggers — Authority: 487
  Last month, award-winning Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was once again denied permission to leave the island, this time to receive the Maria Moors Cabot award for journalism. Less than three weeks later, Sanchez was arrested along with fellow blogger Orlando Luis Pardo as they neared an anti-violence demonstration. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tunisia: blogger Fatma Riahi arrested and could face criminal libel charge

  
  [fikra] ???? — Authority: 403
  update 1 : November 6th, 2009 – Lawyer Ben Debba said fatma has been transferred to Bouchoucha police station and might be summoned to appear before a public prosecutor. update 2 : November 7th, 2009 – Lawyer Ben Debba said that fatma has been released. On Monday, November 2nd, 2009, Tunisian blogger ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fiji: Reality, brand, mirage

  
  ...My heart's in Accra — Authority: 596
  What do you know about Fiji? Before getting involved with Global Voices, I knew that it was an island paradise somewhere in the South Pacific much beloved by vacationers and honeymooners and that, despite being an island nation surrounded by seawater, they export a lot of high-priced bottled water. As I’ve ...
  3 weeks ago

• Threatened Voices

  
  ...My heart's in Accra — Authority: 596
  My friend and colleage Sami Ben Gharbia just launched a fascinating and useful new site: Threatened Voices . It’s an interactive map of bloggers under arrest and under threat around the world, with an accompanying timeline that makes it possible to track the phenomenon of arresting bloggers over the past several ...
  3 weeks ago

• Threatened Voices

  
  Fustat — Authority: 396
  One of the core issues on Fustat during it´s 50 something months has been Egyptian bloggers, their rights and violations against them. During the same period, Global Voices among many others has been a true friend of the Egyptian bloggers,taking over the torch from the Committee to Protect Bloggers if i remember ...
  3 weeks ago

• Introducing Threatened Voices

  
  [fikra] ???? — Authority: 403
  Never before have so many people been threatened or imprisoned for what the words they write on the internet. As activists and ordinary citizens have increasingly made use of the internet to express their opinions and connect with others, many governments have also increased surveillance, filtering, legal actions and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Need to shift focus on Africas drought

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 854
  Headlines rarely do a story justice – especially when it comes to the words "Drought in Africa."
  3 weeks ago

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