Stories about Youth from November, 2007
Pakistan: High School Kids Protest
A student protest in Islamabad voicing opinion against the emergency imposed in Pakistan [YouTube Link]. The high school kids got lathi-charged (Baton Charge) right after the footage finished according to...
Serbia: Belgrade the “Party City”
Belgrade 2.0 corrects the Sunday Times on their view of Belgrade: “Milan is the fashion city, Amsterdam is the weed city, Paris is the love city, Berlin is the wall...
Serbia: Slavija
Dejan Čabrilo of Anegdote writes about Slavija, a Belgrade neighborhood he grew up in: “Seen the kids who offer to wait in line for visas at the German embassy in...
Jamaica: Push Carts
Montego Bay Day By Day features a photograph of one of the Jamaican town's push cart vendors.
Guyana: Violence Against Women
“It is time for men to change their attitude toward women – and it needs to start with the nation’s supposed leaders,” writes The Guyana Groove, as she tackles the...
Dominica: Things Must Change
Steve's Dominica notices the subtle changes around him.
Jordan: Dyslexic Children
Jordanian Kinano coaches us on how to discover whether our children could be dyslexic in this post.
Uruguay: Approval for XO Purchase
Rodolfo Pilas writes about the green light given to the Uruguayan project Ceibal that will purchase One Laptop
Chile: Strategy for OLPC
Luis Ramirez of OLPC Chile explains at One Laptop Per Child News about their project's strategy to “achieve free and permanent access to computers for at least 1 million Chilean...
Russia: Chewing Gum in the Soviet Union
Like a million other things, chewing gum wasn't freely available in the Soviet Union. In the post translated below, a Russian blogger recalls a childhood experience involving chewing gum - zhvachka - that appears comical now, but must have been rather traumatic 30 years ago.
Bahrain: Flaunting your wealth – and accounting for it
What are bloggers talking about in Bahrain this week? Financial accountability, the reasons for blogging, a childhood addiction to books, how to encourage creativity - and looking after appearances.
Philippines: Bloggers react to shocking suicide by girl, 12
Postcard Headlines has a roundup of bloggers’ thoughts on the shocking suicide by a poor 12-year old girl in southern Philippines and her lamentations about her family's poverty right before...
Slovenia: Student Work
Sleeping With Pengovsky writes on Slovenia's “two parallel labour markets. The “regular” one and another one, reserved solely for students.”
Slovenia: “Children of Petriček Hill”
Jennifer Dorroh writes about the Children of Petriček Hill documentary: “During the months after Germany surrendered in WWII, the Yugoslav government separated more than 90 children from their mothers and...
Pakistan: Student Protests update
An update on student protests at LUMS in Lahore at Naitazi.com.
Palestine: Challenging Nephew
Palestinian Iman writes about how her five-year-old nephew now thinks she is illiterate.
Cambodia: Mobile Internet
A new mobile telco is offering free mobile internet and attracting the geeks in Cambodia.
Singapore: Strange Sightings
Indi is spooking readers with the stories of his son being able to see what others cannot.
Pakistan: Student Protests, Police and the Underground Life
Students in Pakistan have joined activists in protesting the state of emergency imposed in the country. On 3rd November, the Lahore School of Management Sciences (LUMS) released a draft resolution...
Haiti: Learning Through Gameing
Bryan Schaaf at Haiti Innovation thinks that video games may be a great way to raise children's awareness about international development and humanitarian issues.
Bahamas: Abortion Debate
“In Bahamian society, whether legal or not, abortions will happen”: Adrian Gibson at WeblogBahamas.com shares his views on a woman's right to choose.
