See all those languages? The Lingua project at Global Voices works to bring down barriers to understanding through translation.

Learn more about Lingua  »

· March, 2006

Stories about Law from March, 2006

China: Yahoo! in China

Today is Pick On Yahoo! Day at Asiapundit with “one of the most-biting attacks on the company and co-founder Jerry Yang that I have yet read,” up first.

Written by John Kennedy
30 March 2006

DR: No to “sexual liberty”

Andrés Duque reports that language referring to “sexual liberty” will be removed from a current draft amendment to the Dominican Republic's Civil Code. One of the fears among critics of...

Written by Georgia Popplewell
30 March 2006

DRC: UDPS’ Latest Demands

Doubting that elections can and will take place June 30 as planned, UDPS Liege posts(FR) the UDPS’ latest demands to the international community and the Congolese government. Demands include the...

Written by Alice Backer
30 March 2006

Belarus: Letter From Female Prisoners

LJ user kapitan_tanaka translates a letter written by Valyantsina Palyavikova and Larysa Bukholenka, two female prisoners who were jailed for their participation in the post-election protest in Minsk.

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
28 March 2006

Hong Kong: Police, Paparazzi and Privacy

BigWhiteGuy Randall van der Woning lambasts Hong Kong media following a plea for respect from the wife of the suspect in last week's fatal police-on-police shootout. “Decency? Such as local...

Written by John Kennedy
28 March 2006

Hong Kong: Private Information Uploaded

Simon World‘s namesake criticizes the Hong Kong government for continuing to remain silent two weeks after the discovery earlier this month of the accidental posting online of the names, ages,...

Written by John Kennedy
28 March 2006

Myanmar: asylum for refugees

Still on the “material support” issue that denies entry to Burmese refugees and asylum seekers to the U.S., Burma Underground writes a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush, the...

Written by Connie Veneracion
28 March 2006

Burundi: war crimes tribunal

Agathon Rwasi calls for the creation of a war crimes tribunal in Burundi and comments on the release of “thousands of people classified as “political prisoners” by a new political...

Written by Sokari Ekine
28 March 2006

Thailand: Dodging the Question

Thai blog Bookish reflects on the beleaguered Thai PM's evasion of a question posed to him on a TV talk show: Did he make a mistake transferring his company's shares...

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
27 March 2006

China: Sexual harassment issues

Ray Zhou from Not Only Movies blogs on bumps in China's development of anti-sexual harassment laws. “What if the teacher is gay and is more likely to be physically attracted...

Written by Luisetta Mudie
27 March 2006

China: Another Taishi village election

ESWN translates a Chinese-language news report from Boxun.com (ZH) about the result for the recent elections in Taishi village for a representative to the National People's Congress (NPC).

Written by Luisetta Mudie
22 March 2006

This site is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Please read our attribution policy to learn about freely redistributing our work Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved