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29 December 2009

Global Voices partners with Google on freedom of expression award

Written by Georgia Popplewell · News, Feature

Nominations open today (December 29, 2009) for the Breaking Borders Award, a new prize created by Google and Global Voices to honor outstanding web projects initiated by individuals or groups...

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5 December 2009

2nd Arab Bloggers Meeting

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · 2nd Arab Bloggers Meeting

The Heinrich Boell Foundation and Global Voices are organizing the Second Arab Bloggers Meeting in Beirut from the 8th till the 12th of December 2009. This meeting is a follow-up...

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17 November 2009

Global Voices to screen 10 tactics for turning information into action in Beirut

Written by Faith Bosworth · Advocacy, activism

10 tactics for turning information into action is a documentary film, about rights advocacy, with a distinctive hands-on approach. The film features interviews with 25 rights advocates in 24 countries...

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7 November 2009

For Reporter Without Borders, “Press Freedom is the Price for Democracy”

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Advocacy

“For you, access to information costs one click. In China, it would have cost a journalist seven years in jail”. This is the message you will currently find on the...

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9 June 2009

Global Voices Advocacy Wins Zemanta Blog Contest

Written by Solana Larsen · Advocacy

Global Voices Advocacy won first prize in Zemanta's Blogging for a Cause competition today. More than 60 different websites were nominated, and the top 5 to receive the most votes from bloggers have each won $1200. Thanks for all the support!!

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13 May 2009

Help Global Voices Advocacy win $3000 by writing one post

Written by Solana Larsen · Advocacy, activism

Help Global Voices Advocacy win $3000! The prize money would help us continue to raise awareness of attacks on online freedom of speech, and share tools and tactics with activists and bloggers facing censorship on different parts of the globe. All you have to do is write a post in your own blog, including the following text…

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18 April 2009

Syria: Linkedin Kicks Off Syrian Users!

Written by alNaser · Advocacy

AnasOnline blog reports (Arabic link) that Linkedin (AC Group here) completely blocked all Syrian users. According to the blog post: 3 weeks ago when Linkedin blocked all Syrian IPs users , but they were able to access the site by using IP changing programs (such as Tor), but in the last days, Linkedin blocked all Syrian users even if they changed their IPs

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