Advocacy Through Mapping: Threatened Voices

Threatened Voices is an interactive mapping project to build a database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online and to draw attention to the campaigns to free them. The global voices community is  a champion for free speech and online expression around the world, and this new initiative is a continuation of the work on Global Voices Advocacy (#advox), led by Sami Ben Gharbia. This site was not an easy one to put together. It took a lot of  hard work by Jeremy Clarke, the lead hacker for Global Voices, Dan Braghis from Moldova, Gleb Kanunnikau from Belarus, and Solana Larsen in New York. We admire the work they have done,  and encourage you to support their efforts by letting others online know of this initiative, and if you are a blogger who faces threats because of what you write, do submit a report on the site.