Quote Of The Day

"According to the Open Net Initiative, more than 620 million Internet users—31% of the world’s total Internet users—live in countries where there is substantial or pervasive filtering of online content." - Bob Boorstin, Director of Public Policy, Google ...

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Bangladesh: Using Blogging to Expose ‘Eve Teasing'

This post was written in Bangla by Bijoy and was translated for Global Voices Online by Rezwan Eve teasing(sexual harassment of women) is one of the major problems in Bangladesh which many women face everyday. This social problem exists everywhere be it in rural or in urban areas. One of the main reasons of girls being married off at an early age or them dropping out of school is “eve teasing”. Many times these incidents lead to violence and even deaths. There had been instances of parents or siblings giving their lives to stop “eve teasing”. Strict...

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India: Crackdown on Tamil Nadu Anti-Nuclear Plant Protests

This post was first published in Global Voices Online. Concerns have been sparked that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) currently under construction in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, India, may have similar vulnerabilities to the ill-fated Fukushima nuclear power plant of Japan. Activists fear that in the case of an earthquake followed by a tsunami in the Indian Ocean, there could be an accident...

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Bangladesh: Movie Theaters Are Dying

This post was written in Bangla by Pantha Rahman Reza and translated for Global Voices Online by Rezwan Watching movies in theaters was once a favorite pastime for Bengalis. The custom was to go to the movies on the holidays or special days. It was popular culture to follow the fashion and postures of the stars of the new released cinemas. But cinema-loving Bengalis do not go to movie theaters nowadays and the country's cinema...

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India: Freedom Fast To Save Your Voice

This post was first published in Global Voices Online The protests to stop the new IT rules in India (see our previous post on this) are still going on. Today is the fifth day of the hunger strike of Aseem Trivedi and Alok Dixit from Save Your Voice to support annulment motion against IT Rules-2011 in Rajya Sabha. They started this hunger strike on the 2nd of May and vowed to carry on until they get any satisfactory response from...

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