Stories about Feature from December, 2008
26 December 2008
Nari Jibon: End Violence Against Women
25th of November was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. To mark the day Nari Jibon bloggers signed the UNIFEM petition "SAY NO to violence against...
23 December 2008
Rising Voices Seeks Micro-grant Proposals for Citizen Media Outreach
Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative...
21 December 2008
Voces Bolivianas: Engaging Local Stakeholders For Wider Outreach
On the 14th of December 2008 the ‘Bolivia Webprende’ (Meet of the Web Entrepreneurs in Bolivia) took place in La Paz. Many cyber activists of Bolivia participated in the event...
18 December 2008
Serbian Web Journalism School: Creating Future Trends in Journalism
Ljubisa Bojic and the Serbian Journalist Association are providing training to experienced and novice journalists in New Media and Social Web in an web journalism school in Belgrade, Serbia. The...
A Campaign for Suso
A project nine months in the making, the bloggers from HiperBarrio are organizing a festive event this Saturday to raise funds in order to finish their all-volunteer construction of a...
16 December 2008
Online Filmmakers Offer New Glimpses of Iran
Despite several unforeseen hurdles, Iran Inside Out has launched an impressive website and published two videos by Iranian filmmakers showing Tehran's underground heavy metal scene and reflecting on the prospects...
11 December 2008
Nari Jibon Featured in Venezuelan National Newspaper Tal Cual
One of the many goals of Rising Voices is to help facilitate conversation between countries in the so-called 'Global South'. Last month Laura Vidal, a Venezuelan journalist who publishes the...
5 December 2008
Methadone Programs in Ukraine: a Help to Drug Addicts or World Conspiracy
The Ukrainian foundation for drug users and HIV positive people, Drop-in-Center, celebrated World AIDS Day, by conducting a broad public awareness campaign, explaining the basics of methadone programs for injection...
