From left: Sudanese blogger Kizzie Shawat, Egyptian blogger Nora Younis, Tunisian blogger Sami Ben Gharbia (Source: The Huffington Post) Written for Global Voices Advocacy One blogger, two journalists, and one online writer were prevented from traveling to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend the 3rd Arab Fr

(Copenhagen 10-11 November 2008) I attended a Research seminar on Digital Media in Repressive RegimesPublic sphere, civic engagement and political mobilization (.Pdf) hosted by The Danish Institute for Human Rights. This is a video of a talk given by Mariam Memarsadeghi about the Internet and the St

Here is a great video explaining the role of the egyptian blogsphere in exposing human rights abuses and the role of the social-networking website Facebook and the micro-blogging platform Twitter in organizing demos and strikes, such as the April 6 strike and the May 4th General Strike. The video f

Click on the image to download this guide as a pdf I'm pleased to announce that we have release the second Advocacy 2.0 Guide: Cross-posting for Advocacy, An Introduction to Effective Social Media Integration. This second guide by Global Voices Advocacy offers us a brief introduction to how to us

Le « Comité national de soutien aux habitants du basin minier» vient de publier un document très intéressant qui fait le point sur les procès visant les acteurs qui ont animé le mouvement social, populaire et pacifique, qui secoue le sud-est tunisien depuis janvier 2008. L’affaire 15537 Con