· November, 2007

Stories about Youth from November, 2007

Pakistan: High School Kids Protest

  14 November 2007

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 Chapati Mystery.

Serbia: Belgrade the “Party City”

  14 November 2007

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 city, and New York is New York” – and Belgrade is the “party city.”

Serbia: Slavija

  14 November 2007

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 exchange for a small fee? That was us, and probably still is – the perks of living in the capital...

Jamaica: Push Carts

  13 November 2007

Montego Bay Day By Day features a photograph of one of the Jamaican town's push cart vendors.

Guyana: Violence Against Women

  13 November 2007

“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 issue of violence against women.

Chile: Strategy for OLPC

  12 November 2007

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 children living in poverty before our bicentennial (2010)”

Russia: Chewing Gum in the Soviet Union

  12 November 2007

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.

Slovenia: “Children of Petriček Hill”

  10 November 2007

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 fathers at camps in northeastern Slovenia. While the children were detained at one camp, many of their parents were executed...

Pakistan: Student Protests, Police and the Underground Life

  8 November 2007

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 on behalf of the faculty, students and staff condemning “gross political injustices that the nation has experienced in the past...

Haiti: Learning Through Gameing

  8 November 2007

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

  8 November 2007

“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.