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Not Without a Fight: The Battle for Affordable Housing in Cape Town · Global Voices

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I have always said there are two types of people who travel to Cape Town. There are the ones who are enthralled by the mountains, beaches, and endless kilometers of wineries. And then there are those who cannot get over the harsh contrast between the shacks and the mansions, or the scarcity of black and brown people as they go about their tourist activities, except on the township tours.

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Not Without a Fight: The Battle for Affordable Housing in Cape Town · Global Voices
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I have always said there are two types of people who travel to Cape Town. There are the ones who are enthralled by the mountains, beaches, and endless kilometers of wineries. And then there are those who cannot get over the harsh contrast between the shacks and the mansions, or the scarcity of black and brown people as they go about their tourist activities, except on the township tours.

#afrique_du_sud #logement #résister cc @fil

The World’s First ‘EleFriendly Bus’ Curtails Human-Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka · Global Voices
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This post by Anya De Saram-Larssen, a student of the British School in Colombo, appeared in Groundviews, an award-winning citizen journalism website in Sri Lanka. Ms. Saram-Larssen attended the anniversary of the launch of the EleFriendly Bus and talked with different stakeholders. An edited version is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices.

#sri_lanka #éléphants #transport #sécurité #enfants #enfance

‘The Position of Women in Science Has Changed for the Better’, but ‘Is Still Far From Ideal’ · Global Voices
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As part of a two-pronged series of interviews with medical researchers based in Africa (read the first part here), Global Voices reached out to Dr. Shilpa Iyer, who is currently working in Zambia.

Iyer grew up in Pune, India, where she obtained her bachelor’s and masters degrees in zoology and molecular biology, respectively. She then moved to the US and obtained her PhD in microbiology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Yale University with a Fogarty Global health research fellowship to conduct research in Lusaka, Zambia.

#sciences #femmes #discriminations #inégalités

USA : Trois semaines après l’#ouragan Maria, les autorités “blanchissent” la #dévastation et les morts à Porto Rico · Global Voices en Français
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Dans un entretien avec le Secrétaire à la Sécurité publique Héctor Pesquera, le Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI) basé à San Juan a appris qu’au moins 200 personnes sont mortes à Porto Rico du 20 au 29 septembre compris, un nombre qui excède largement celui d’une période [normale] aussi courte. Et ce ne sont là que les enregistrements officiels — L’absence d’électricité a obligé les services d’état civil à faire les enregistrements manuellement, ralentissant ainsi le processus.

Par des entretiens à l’hôpital Pavía d’Arecibo, le CPI a appris que 49 personnes étaient décédées dans ce seul hôpital les deux premiers jours ayant suivi l’ouragan, pendant lequel l’établissement était quasiment dépourvu d’électricité.

#Chiffres biaisés, et brièvement censurés

Le gouverneur de Porto Rico Ricardo Rosello a déclaré le 3 octobre que 63 des 69 hôpitaux de l’île avaient rouvert. Mais que veut dire “rouvrir” pour un hôpital ? Les responsables publics ont expliqué que cela signifiait que les hôpitaux acceptaient des patients. Une liste publiée par les services du gouverneur indique que 29 hôpitaux sur les 63 décrits comme étant “opérationnels” n’ont toujours pas d’électricité.

Le gouvernement fédéral américain rechigne également à fournir des #données exhaustives sur la situation. Le 5 octobre, les utilisateurs du site web de la FEMA, l’Agence fédérale des situations d’urgence, ont constaté que les statistiques détaillées sur les coupures d’eau, d’électricité et autres commodités publiées et routinièrement mises à jour, avaient soudain disparu.

#morts #abandon #guerre_aux_pauvres

Burundian Refugees Face a Difficult Choice: Stay in Overburdened Camps or Return to Uncertainty · Global Voices
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On 7 September a convoy of 301 refugees from Nduta camp in Tanzania drove back into Burundi, with more Burundians following days after. Overall, 12,000 are registered to voluntarily return this year. While not the first returnees, the number is large; and their journey back is organized by Burundi and Tanzania’s governments and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

However, the crisis, sparked by 2015 election turmoil, that led so many Burundians to flee is far from resolved. While some refugees, impatient with waiting to return, held sit-ins in Tanzania to demand the process be sped up, many others fear going back.

#réfugiés #burundi

Sexual Harassment in Greece Is Basically a Woman’s Problem · Global Voices
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Back in June this year, angry social media debates were sparked after a female student claimed she was sexually harassed by a priest on a public bus in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. The viral Facebook post was corroborated by another passenger who posted photos of the incident. Many reached out with comments of support, while others accused the student of fabricating the situation and posting fake photos to “grab attention and publicity”.

Although the website, Hellenic Hoaxes, later went on to post an analysis trying to prove the veracity of the photos and the story, the immediate public skepticism of the student’s claims speaks to the larger issue of sexual harassment towards women in Greek society.

#grèce #viol #violence #violence_sexuelle

Tajikistan Authorities Invite Ridicule with Demand Wikipedia Correct ‘Spelling Mistakes’

Tajikistan urges Wikipedia to correct Tajik content – apparently unaware it could do it itself v @RFERL ▻https://t.co/sATv38xSs4 Joanna Lillis (@joannalillis) October 4, 2017

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Tajikistan’s leader Emomali Rakhmon is looking to grow a reputation as a fastidious man who likes his house in order, so it might not come as a surprise that the authoritarian Central Asian country’s language committee has blasted Wikipedia over spelling mistakes on its Tajik language entries. That government officials either do not realise that they can correct the mistakes themselves, or are too lazy to do so, might also not surprise.

#tadjikistan #wikipedia #asie_centrale

Spanish Court Case Tests the Challenges of Universal Jurisdiction on Syrians · Global Voices

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For many years now, Syrian activists have been risking their physical and psychological well-being to document the Assad regime’s violations. Thanks to these efforts, the Syrian conflict “is going to be one of the most documented national conflicts in history, more than the Holocaust,” say lawyers for Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers, a legal advocacy group.

Nonetheless, the road to justice for the victims and their families is fraught with political and legal obstacles, as the case of Amal H. in Spain has proven.

Amal’s brother, Abdul-Mumen, disappeared during the war, and like thousands of other Syrians, the only source of information she had about the fate of her loved one were photos leaked by a former Syrian military photographer known as Caesar.

Abdul-Mumen happened to hold Spanish citizenship, which allowed Guernica 37 to invoke universal jurisdiction in Spain against regime officials responsible for his abduction, torture, and consequent death.

#espagne #syrie #réfugiés

Russians Get Territorial After Chinese Newspaper Tweets Photos of the Remote Altay Region · Global Voices

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On October 2, the English-language state newspaper China Daily tweeted some beautiful photographs of Altay, a remote region in the northwestern part of the country.

Check out some of the autumn scenery in Altay, a remote and sparsely populated part in NW China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. pic.twitter.com/d3frx7h8cx

— China Daily (@ChinaDailyUSA) 2 октября 2017 г.

China Daily regularly tweets promotional photographs from various Chinese regions, but this time it caused an unexpected backlash from Russian Twitter users who thought China was claiming parts of Russia as its own.

This is Russia

— Pasik Plastikbrains (@mrplastikbrains) 2 октября 2017 г.

#c_est_à_moi #russie #chine

To Solve Gun Violence, Americans Need to Aim Higher · Global Voices
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As I write, news is breaking of two more gun massacres in the United States, one on the west coast, the other on the east. Americans are already starting to forget Friday’s politically motivated attack on a Planned Parenthood in Colorado, which killed three people and orphaned six children.

The amnesia breaks my heart. But the political response from both left and right here in the US is much more troubling. In the face of violence, we don’t just forget. We also lose our best selves.

#états-unis #armes #armement #violence #massacres #tueries

As China Restricts Home Sales, Netizens Ask If This Serves the People’s Needs · Global Voices

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To cool down the overheating property market, China has banned the resale of apartments within two to five years of purchase in more than 50 cities.

The restriction was first introduced in April 2017 covering mainly 14 first and second tier cities. However, the latest round of announcements on September 22 and 25 has extended the regulation to many third tier or even fourth tier cities.

As the tiered city system is used to classify Chinese cities so as to formulate and fine tune economic and political strategies based on local consumer behaviour, income level, politics, and local trends. The implementation of home-sale restriction in all four city tiers implies that it is a national strategy in dealing with property bubbles.

#chine #urbanisation #urban_matter

Myanmar Government Vows to Address Refugee Crisis in Rakhine State, but Avoids Saying ‘Rohingya’ · Global Voices

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On September 19, 2017, Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivered a widely anticipated speech in front of diplomats, United Nations officials, and members of the media to speak about what the government is doing to address the refugee crisis in Rakhine State.

Since August, about 400,000 Rohingyas have escaped to Bangladesh after the Myanmar government intensified its crackdown of insurgents belonging to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), which attacked several police and military outposts.

#birmanie #rohingyas

Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: Once Deadly Foes, Now BFF? · Global Voices

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t wasn’t just about the first ladies and their matching shoes, although that didn’t go unnoticed; Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s visit to Kyrgyzstan last week marked a sea change in relations between two Central Asian countries that up until recently, lived in the long shadow cast by his uncompromising predecessor.

Islam Karimov, who ruled Uzbekistan from before independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 until his death last year, had few nice things to say about Kyrgyzstan.

#asie_centrale #turkmenistan #ouzbekistan #dictatures

Thousands of Rohingyas Fleeing Violence Are Stranded on the Bangladesh-Myanmar Border · Global Voices
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Violence between an insurgent group and Myanmar’s security forces during the last week of August 2017 drove thousands of Rohingya Muslims to enter Bangladesh in search of refuge.

The surge led Bangladesh to begin to restrict crossings, meaning many others were turned away and left to wait on the border.

Members of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) staged a major coordinated attack on around 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine state, Myanmar. Around 1,000 militants took part in the offensive in the Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships. The military retaliated and at least 59 insurgents and 12 members of the security forces were killed on August 25, 2017 alone.

#rohinga #birmanie

Macedonian ‘Moby-Dick’ Translator Ognen Čemerski, 42, Was a Meticulous Linguist and Engaged Educator
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The challenges of translating a maritime novel into a ‘landlocked’ language

Čemerski spent about 12 years working on the translation of “Moby-Dick,” a project initiated during his undergraduate studies at Graceland University in Iowa, USA. He conducted it as a scientific endeavor, and used it as basis of his masters’ thesis in linguistics.

“Moby-Dick or the Whale” by Herman Melville, translated into Macedonian by Ognen Čemerski. Photo by GV, CC-BY.
This was not the first translation of “Moby-Dick” in Macedonian. There was one edition published in the 1980s, translated from Serbo-Croatian, which did not produce a lasting impact.

The main problem of translating a book from 1851 about sailing and whaling was that the Macedonian language lacked maritime terminology. Most of the ethnic Macedonian population had been landlocked during the last centuries, having little contact with the sea in general and sailing in particular. In order to overcome this, Čemerski had to re-construct the vocabulary by first discovering the origins of the English terms, and then trace their equivalents in Macedonian or other Slavic languages.

One Year On: Uzbekistan’s Unhappy Ex-Ruling Family · Global Voices
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By the time he suffered a reported stroke from which he would not recover, his eldest daughter was under house arrest and his unloved nephew was languishing in a psychiatric prison. In Islam Karimov’s Uzbekistan, families regularly told the pro-government polling company how happy they were, even as authoritarianism flourished and corruption deepened.

His own family, however, could never quite keep up the pretence.

#ouzbékistan #karimov

Thousands of Rohingyas Fleeing Violence Are Stranded on the Bangladesh-Myanmar Border · Global Voices
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Violence between an insurgent group and Myanmar’s security forces during the last week of August 2017 drove thousands of Rohingya Muslims to enter Bangladesh in search of refuge.

The surge led Bangladesh to begin to restrict crossings, meaning many others were turned away and left to wait on the border.

#birmanie #rohingas

Une réforme fiscale en Inde menace l’accès des plus précaires aux serviettes hygiéniques · Global Voices en Français
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Avec cette réforme, les protections hygiéniques (serviettes et tampons) sont désormais taxées au même titre que les produits de luxe. En revanche, le bindi [fr] (le pigment rouge utilisé par les femmes sur leur front indiquant leur statut d’épouse), le mangala sutra et les bracelets ne contenant pas de métaux précieux (tous deux portés par les femmes mariées) n’ont pas été taxés. Si cette décision visait à apaiser la colère des femmes, elle a plutôt mis le feu aux poudres. L’imposition des protections hygiéniques a soulevé une vague d’indignation sur internet, et des pétitions ont été mises en ligne pour appeler à abroger cette mesure. Des étudiantes de Thiruvananthapuram [fr], capitale de l’État du Kerala, ont décidé d’envoyer au ministre des finances des boîtes remplies de protections hygiéniques, accompagnées du message “saigne sans peur, saigne sans impôts”.

Une réforme fiscale en Inde menace l’accès des plus précaires aux serviettes hygiéniques · Global Voices en Français
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“Quand je me déplace loin ou que j’ai un examen, je mets une serviette hygiénique, mais chez moi j’utilise un chiffon. Je n’ai pas assez d’argent pour porter tout le temps des serviettes. C’est cher”, explique Sonam Kumari, lycéenne travaillant également comme couturière à domicile, qui habite dans un village reculé à la frontière avec la région de Champaran, dans le nord-est de l’État du Bihar [fr]. “C’est sûr que c’est mieux d’utiliser stayfree [marque de serviette], c’est plus hygiénique et elles sont emballées dans un petit paquet facile à transporter”, ajoute Kismat, la voisine de Sonam. Dans le nord-est de l’Inde, plus de 30 % des jeunes #femmes interviewées disent avoir abandonné l’école lorsqu’elles ont commencé à avoir leurs #règles.

#sang #menstrues