Stories from September, 2010
Featured Blogger: Ahmed Awadalla
“Exploring Taboos” project, organized by Cairo-based Nazra team, is one of the newest grantees of Rising Voices. Ahmed Awadalla participated in the first workshop of the project and is now...
Drop-In Center: Continuing to be an Online Resource for Ukrainian Harm Reduction Movement
Pavel Kutsev, a leader of a Ukrainian harm reduction movement, started blogging in 2008 within the framework of the Rising Voices project the Drop-In Center. Now, nearly two years later...
Abidjan Blog Camps: The Urgency Of Public Interest Journalism In Africa
As threats to public interest journalism are evident from all quarters, journalists are increasingly resorting to cover only certain types of news and neglect serious events, failing media to be...
Exploring Taboos: Discussing Female Genital Mutilation
Blogger Ahmad Awadalla conducts sexuality education workshops in Egypt, and has been using his blog to share some of his experiences in this field. As one of the participants of...
Egypt: Continuing to Explore the Taboos of Sex Workers and Machismo
The bloggers of the project "Exploring Taboos" continue to delve into subjects not often discussed in the Egyptian blogosphere. Here is a selection of some of these translated posts dealing...
Voces Bolivianas: Jaqi Aru, Spreading Aymara In Internet
Aymara, a Native American language with more than two million speakers in Bolivia, has gradually lost speakers both to Spanish and to Quechua in the past century. Rising Voices grantee...
Nomad Green: Why The Mongolian ‘Ninjas’ Keep On Digging?
The Mongolian gold rush has not only made a fortune for the mining companies, it has also changed some of the lives of the Mongolian poorest. Thousands of people, called...
