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A 19 year old Jordanian kidnaps a 14 year old girl (with the assistance of his family) – takes her to a location where a tent was set up for him to rape her repeatedly for three straight days before the police roll in. The court sentences him to death by hanging but he manages to produce a very recent marriage certificate signed by a judge. The court then stays the execution but claims that it will be reinstated should the boy divorce her without a “justifiable cause”. A professor of sociology from the University of Jordan was widely quoted by the original article produced by Arab Al Yawm – that “women are different in nature from men” and that the girl should now make her best of the situation and play the role of a good wife, mostly by putting this whole silly rape thing behind her.
Blogger Naseem Tarawnah summarises a rape case in Jordan that has angered people.
It’s World Press Freedom Day
This World Press Freedom Day (#WPFD) why not check out our database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online?
Bloggers’ React to Malawi’s First Female President Joyce Banda
Joyce Banda was sworn in on Saturday 7 April, as Malawi’s Head of State and Government, becoming the first female president in the country and the SADCC region. Bloggers have generally received the transition with a lot of excitement.
The Global Voices Summit convenes bloggers, activists and technologists for public discussions and workshops about the rise of online citizen media movements worldwide. There will also be a private gathering of Global Voices contributors preceding the Summit.
Visit the Summit website to find out more.
Vote for the Most Influential African Thinker Alive
Who is the most influential African thinker alive? Africa is a Country blog wants readers to vote for one influential African thinker from a list of 12 candidates.
- Samir Amin, academic, activist, Senegal/Egypt
- Jean and John Comaroff, academics, South Africa/United States
- Chinua Achebe, writer, Nigeria
- Mahmood Mamdani, academic, Uganda
- Mamdouh Habashi, academic, politician, Egypt
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, academic, philosopher, Ghana/United States
- Achille Mbembe, academic, Cameroon/South Africa
- J M Coetzee, writer, South Africa/Australia
- Issa Shivji, academic, Tanzania
- Nawal el Saadawi, writer and activist, Egypt
- Wole Soyinka, writer, activist, Nigeria
- Virginie Toure, activist, Cote d’Ivoire
Applications for Citizen Media Outreach Project Proposals Due Friday 3 February
Rising Voices seeks project proposals that share its mission of bringing voices from new communities, as well as underrepresented language groups to the online global conversation through the use of participatory citizen media.
The project’s primary activities should be to provide citizen media training workshops to the target community, as well vital ongoing support and mentoring. Please see our roster of current and alumni grantee projects for examples of previously funded projects.
Examples of potential projects may include:
- Organizing a citizen media “boot camp” with experienced local bloggers to train and mentor participants from underrepresented communities that will result in a local network of support.
- Working with an indigenous community to teach and encourage new generations to begin to use Twitter to connect with others as a way to preserve and promote their native language online.
- Partnering with a local library with a computer to lab to invite community members to discuss local problems and solutions, and train them how to create a group blog to take these conversations to the wider community.
- Organizing a series of digital photography group walks where residents can document life in their community together and create an online Flickr photography exhibit.
- Teaching local residents to record and edit audio recordings on Audacity for a community podcast that can be uploaded online, as well as distributed to local radio stations for a wider reach.
Project ideas are not limited to these, and we encourage you to be creative, yet realistic in your proposals.
![I would like to tell you about my grandmother – Boiko Anna. She was born and lives in the village of Yaglush in Rogatyn district of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. She is a cheerful, talented, strong person. A person who has been through a lot, who is full of knowledge and memories.
This is how Anna Boiko’s granddaughter, Olya Suprun, starts [uk] her blog called “The Story of Anna Boiko’s Life.” Online, Olya shares her grandmother’s memories, including stories from the life of their family and other residents of Yaglush.
Her grandmother’s native village is located in today’s Ivano-Frankivsk region of western Ukraine. This region belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire since 1772, to West Ukrainian People’s Republic for a short period after World War I, to interwar Poland between the 1920s and the late 1930s, to the Soviet and then Nazi forces during World War II, and then again to the Soviets from 1944 until Ukraine’s independence in 1991.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lylxnpNloZ1qg9hq7o1_400.jpg)
I would like to tell you about my grandmother – Boiko Anna. She was born and lives in the village of Yaglush in Rogatyn district of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. She is a cheerful, talented, strong person. A person who has been through a lot, who is full of knowledge and memories.
This is how Anna Boiko’s granddaughter, Olya Suprun, starts [uk] her blog called “The Story of Anna Boiko’s Life.” Online, Olya shares her grandmother’s memories, including stories from the life of their family and other residents of Yaglush.
Her grandmother’s native village is located in today’s Ivano-Frankivsk region of western Ukraine. This region belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire since 1772, to West Ukrainian People’s Republic for a short period after World War I, to interwar Poland between the 1920s and the late 1930s, to the Soviet and then Nazi forces during World War II, and then again to the Soviets from 1944 until Ukraine’s independence in 1991.
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