Posts Tagged ‘Campaign’

Some good news

Friday, December 21, 2007 19:18 No Comments

Getting close to the end of the year there are some good news for human rights activists:  UN Calls for Moratorium on Death Penalty: The global campaign against the death penalty secured a landmark victory on Tuesday when the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the call for a worldwide moratorium (suspension) on executions. In a [...]

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Summer Olympics

Saturday, December 15, 2007 16:20 No Comments

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 [...]

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Torture is not a game, says Amnesty

Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:48 No Comments

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 [...]

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