 During the United States presidential election of 2008 Global Voices was commissioned by Reuters to create a website, Voices without Votes, to track global online conversation about US politics and foreign policy.Amira al Hussaini was editor of the website, and Global Voices authors and editors all contributed in the 8 months leading up to Barack Obama's inauguration in January 2009.From 2006-2007, Global Voices and human rights video organization WITNESS collaborated on a pilot project to monitor human rights citizen videos from around the world.