Information for Human Rights. Part II: Case Studies From Across the Globe

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Information for Human Rights. Part II: Case Studies From Across the Globe

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Activism Made Easy: A Study of Amnesty International’s Online Campaign to Stop Torture
John Lannon
"This paper analyses the Internet’s effectiveness in one area of human rights activism: as a site for action. Through a study of Amnesty International’s Stop Torture website, which was specially designed to enable Internet users to become human rights activists, it presents some of the lessons learned, and outlines the doubts that exist over the Internet’s value in this area."

Towards A Global Network of Rights: The Experience of Nepal
Sushma Joshi
"Electronic resources, particularly the Internet, have become a lifeline for many human rights activists around the world who otherwise do not have access to global information networks."

Information: an obstacle for human rights?
Serguei Chabanov
"Overall, human rights establishment tends to view Internet in a positive light. This paper attempts to highlight some of peculiarities of the Internet and digital media and the concerns they pose when used in human rights work. It argues that certain issues are problematic enough for the Internet at present to be considered a medium so far unyielding or even hostile to the furtherance of human rights cause."

Breaking Through the “Golden Shield”
Garden Networks
"This paper reveals the critical role of China’s biggest Internet surveillance system in web repression, the Golden Shield, as well as some current technological and surveillance methods employed by China. It will discuss efforts to overcome Internet censorship in order to help people in China access human rights information."

Human Rights Organisations and the Internet in Belarus
Marina Sokolova and Mikhail Doroshevich
"This article will analyse to what extent human rights activists in Belarus have begun to tap into the power of the Internet, and what has yet to be done."

The American Antitrust Institute: Introduction to a Virtual Public Interest Network
Albert Foer
"AAI’s experience demonstrates that it is possible with the help of the Internet to build from scratch and in a relatively short time an influential public interest organisation dedicated to research, education, and advocacy in the field of antitrust."

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Information for Human Rights. Part II: Case Studies From Across the Globe

Activism Made Easy: A Study of Amnesty International’s Online Campaign to Stop Torture

Towards A Global Network of Rights: The Experience of Nepal

Information: an obstacle for human rights?

Breaking Through the “Golden Shield”

Human Rights Organisations and the Internet in Belarus

The American Antitrust Institute: Introduction to a Virtual Public Interest Network

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