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Cyber Attack Downs Mozambique’s @Verdade News Site On Election Day

@Verdade, a Mozambican weekly newspaper and Global Voices partner, was the victim of a massive cyber attack on Oct. 15, 2014, when Mozambican general elections took place last week. The attack began on the eve of the electi...

by Janet Gunter

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Meet The Woman That Spent 10 Days In An Insane Asylum To Change Journalism Forever

When Elizabeth Cochran was just twenty years old she read a particularly upsetting editorial in her local paper entitled What Girls Are Good For. In short, the column effectively considered the answer to be nothing. Eliza...

by Abby Norman

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Central Asia’s Rulers View Turkish “Soap Power” With Suspicion

Back when the post-Soviet states of Central Asia gained independence, there was much talk of Pan-Turkism, a word that had been largely forgotten during seven decades of communism and Russian linguistic influence. The idea th...

by Kanykei Tursunbaeva

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The Death And Gloom Of Donetsk And Gaza

There were two headline-grabbing events on Thursday, July 17: the downing of Malaysian Flight MH17, presumably by separatists in eastern Ukraine, and the beginning of Israel’s ground assault into the Gaza Strip. While the for...

by Sean Guillory

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Media Freedom – At The Heart Of The Post-2015 Framework?

World nations are gearing up for a new set of goals as the clock ticks towards the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals. Among the discussion for what the world’s new aims and objectives should be is the issue o...

by Priyanka Mogul

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Palestinian Supporters And Their Concern Regarding The BBC

Since the kidnapping and subsequent killing of three teenage Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on 12 June, the Israeli Army have launched a mass, indiscriminate campaign of abductions, home invasions, shellings and aer...

by Nuzhat Fatima

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Hillary Hysteria

If you have been keeping up with the news, there is hardly a day that goes by, in which former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not featured. Her recent book publication has everyone from the far ri...

by Mayda Margarita De La Fuente

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Hungary’s New Media Tax: An Undemocratic Legislation?

Hungary’s tumultuous political sphere seems like a never ending topic for democracy advocates. Right after the governing party’s much criticised actions (alterations in the country’s constitution, forced retirements and o...

by Tímea Fazekas

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Bare Breasts Breed Bad Boys: Why Censoring Nudity In The Wolf of Wall Street In India Is Beyond Unbelievable

Leonardo DiCaprio, fast cars, mountains of cocaine, nudity that would put Italian statues to shame, and Martin Scorsese: this adequately sums up The Wolf of Wall Street. About five months ago, I watched it in India, and then sa...

by Apratim Vidyarthi

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Cyber Attack Downs Mozambique’s @Verdade News Site On Election Day

Meet The Woman That Spent 10 Days In An Insane Asylum To Change Journalism Forever

Central Asia’s Rulers View Turkish “Soap Power” With Suspicion

The Death And Gloom Of Donetsk And Gaza

Media Freedom – At The Heart Of The Post-2015 Framework?

Palestinian Supporters And Their Concern Regarding The BBC

Hillary Hysteria

Hungary’s New Media Tax: An Undemocratic Legislation?

Bare Breasts Breed Bad Boys: Why Censoring Nudity In The Wolf of Wall Street In India Is Beyond Unbelievable

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