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• 'Women empowerment
• blogging
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Internet
• Venezuela

I write (and have been editing for two months as a substitute editor for Latin America) for Global Voices Online. I wanted to share with you some of the latest posts our authors have written on the subject of gender. We use blogs and other social media and citizen journalism sources for our posts; this way, you can really see what bloggers and citizens from these countries are talking about.

Venezuela: Women Who are Not Afraid of Mice:
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/07/29/venezuela-allies-in-technology-...

Global Voices in Spanish created a blog carnival for Colombian women on "Colombian women and the Internet", here is a summary of the posts that we received:
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/07/22/blog-carniva-colombia-women-and...

Brazil: Daily Violence Against Women:
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/07/20/brazil-daily-violence-against-w...

You can find more posts on the issue of gender, from all over the world, here: http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/gender/

****Update: Here is another one, just published today:

Haiti: Displaced Women and Girls Victims of Gender Violence:
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/07/30/haiti-displaced-women-and-girls...