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Unfortunately the new year started with another crisis. Amnesty international UK is urging the UK Government to take a lead and call for an immediate, comprehensive humanitarian truce to allow desperately needed humanitarian assistance to the beleaguered civilian population, evacuation of the wounded and safe refuge for civilians wishing to flee the conflict zone. You [...]

Today is the 60th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights. All over the world people are celebrating this day. This video is made by Amnesty International UK with the message “You are powerful on protect the human”.

A follow up on the successful Amnesty International ad “signature”. Also see the first part of this ad.

Beating peaceful protestors does not uphold the Olympics values Amnesty International (UK) has launched the second video of “Human Rights For China” campaign. They’ve used the viral launch to highlight the case of Huang Qi, a 45 years old cyber-dissident who runs the www.64tianwang.com website and has been detained since 10 June. Huang Qi was [...]

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. See Amnesty International’s report. Related: Every Human has Rights

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: Also see: Human [...]

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 [...]

New York times has a report about the Iranian blogosphere entitled: “Iranian Blogosphere Tests Government’s Limits“. The article refers to a research done in Harvard’s Law school that mapped Iran’s online public (See the resulting map here). The research and the report are both interesting. I have also translated part of them to Persian in [...]

The Chinese government not only is suppressing the Tibet activists with military force, but also they’ve started cyber attacks against pro-Tibet activists. If you want to read more about this read it here. Thanks to Jadi.

Yesterday was 8th of March, I read an article(Persian) by an Iranian women rights activist. She reminded me that during the last year in Iran, 100 women right activists spent at least 1 night in prison. What was their sin? They were demanding their rights using different Nonviolent methods, like gathering signatures. A friend of [...]