Posts Tagged with ‘Bloggers-Unite-for-Human-Rights’

Before I finally go to sleep at night, I try to clear out my feeds as much as I possibly can just so that I'm not so overwhelmed when I wake up in the morning. I usually catch Steven Hodson's From the Pipeline feature in that last pass at night, and sometimes save links to read first thing in the morning.
Last night, however, as I was reading his links, I was really hoping to not want to come back to [...]

If you've been following Laura Fitton on Twitter (@Pistachio), you've probably seen a lot of links with news about the cyclone and resulting aftermath in Myanmar. And the junta running the Myanmar government doesn't want its citizens seeing the information behind those links. Actually, they don't want anyone to see them.
I've mainly been following the story on Irrawaddy, and the news is not good. The junta is delaying aid to people suffering, sometimes to make it look as if [...]

BlogCatalog.com is partnering with Amnesty International to promote a global campaign to increase awareness of human rights violations throughout the world.
On 15 May, BlogCatalog.com and Amnesty International are asking bloggers to choose any topic with regard to human rights, whether its censorship of information on the Internet, imprisonment of bloggers, or some other topic that deserves more awareness, and post at least one blog post to raise awareness of that issue. The effort is called Bloggers Unite for Human Rights.
There [...]