Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to apologise for six decades of human rights failure and to re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements. …
Some of the most striking images of 2007 were of monks in Burma, lawyers in Pakistan, and women activists in Iran.
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With 100 days to go until the Beijing Olympics, Amnesty International today (30 April) launched the first in a series of four hard-hitting animated films highlighting human rights abuses linked to the Chinese authorities’ hosting of the Games, in particular the risks of peacefully protesting in China. Watch the first animation here:
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A while ago I wrote about Amnesty Internationals campaign against Torture, Unsubscribe-Me. Amnesty is now launching a series of short effective films in order to spread the human rights message.
First add of these series is against waterboarding, a method that is used by the CIA in the “war against terror”. This is ‘The film the CIA doesn’t want you to see’. This film will be on 50 UK cinema screens from 5th of May.
Help spreading the word, by showing the video to your friends, posting it on your weblog/webpages or linking to it. You can also Unsubscribe yourself.
Warning: the video contains shocking content!
2008 is the 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human rights.The Elders say that the government have been signing this declaration for the past 60 years but now you have the chance to sign it in Every Human Has Rights website. You can read a plain language version of the declaration in this homepage and be one of those who sign and join this campaign.
The Hub, the media site specialized for human rights, is also working with Every Human Has Rights campaign to build a global digital data bank of human rights stories, in text, audio and video.
Amnesty marks sixth ‘anniversary’ of Guantanamo with prison cell protest outside US embassy
Today was the sixth “anniversary” of Guantanamo prison opening, Amnesty International organized protests in London, Belfast in front of the US embassy to call for closure of this prison.
The 2008 Summer Olympics will take place from 8-24 August 2008 in Beijing, while China still remains one of the countries with most human rights abuse in the world and it is the biggest prison for journalists and cyber-dissidents. This Olympics is a good chance to pressure the Chinese regime to respect the human rights issues. China’s hosting of the Olympics provides it with
a unique opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights Amnesty International has a campaign to make sure that this opportunity does not pass by without notice, action
and sustained improvements. Here are the links for Amnesty.uk and amnesty.de campaign pages, you can go to these pages and take action.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Noam Chomsky
My good friend Jadi has written in his Persian weblog that the webpage of The world’s Aids day is filtered (censored) inside Iran! Isn’t that amazingly stupid? Jadi has a category in his page which is called Stupid Filtering where he introduces these kind of stupid censorship.
In a previous entry here I posted an Amnesty advertisement, I found another one while surfing in the internet which is also very interesting and effective, especially I guess it is interesting for people of my country, you’ll find out why when you go to the rest of this post:
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton
American novelist (1862–1937)
I first saw this quote in an Amnesty international commercial on YouTube. I was surfing in YouTube for the Amnesty international advertisement which you can watch here. I find it really well made,I thought I will share both with you.
Three men who escaped the death penalty joined forces in New York to
campaign for a global abolition of this irreversible punishment.
Each was sentenced to death for a crime they did not commit - and each
shares a brutal experience of living on death row. Together, they lived
under the shadow of execution for a combined 54 years.
Go to Amnesty’s homepage to watch a slide show about the stories of death penalty with commentary of Collin Firth.
Amnesty has reacted to the launch of a new computer viral promoting the film Saw IV where players torture celebrities using electric drills, knives and spiked clubs. It is called the chamber of torture, even looking at the design of the webpage makes me feel sick. I really don’t understand, how sick one should be to enjoy such thing.
“Torture isn’t something funny that happens to celebrities. It’s horrific and it is happening right now to real people. “If people want to see what’s really going on - and do something to stop it - they should join the thousands who’ve Unsubscribed from torture and terror at www.unsubscribe-me.org. ” Said Sara MacNeice, Amnesty International UK.
Unsubscribe Me is an Amnesty International campaign to unite against the human right abuse that is taking place in the name of “war on terror”. On the main page there is a video of a performance artist undergoing, for real, interrogation techniques permitted in the CIA handbook. I added the widget of this campaign with the video in this post if you want to watch it see the rest of this post.
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