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New Communications Capabilities Help Human Rights Campaigners to Help Others
White Paper Amnesty International's Irish Section faced a situation that its main office building was about to undergo an extensive 15-month refurbishment, which meant moving into temporary offices for an extended... [19 Sep 2009]
Amnesty liberates donations
News Amnesty International UK is launching a mobile payments system to handle donations of up to £800. A spokeswoman for Amnesty International said payments via PSMS are also... [27 Feb 2007]
Amnesty: ISPs must safeguard free speech
News The human rights group Amnesty International has called on ISPs to do more to protect free speech online. Responding to Amnesty's call, the chair of the Ispa council, Jessica... [20 Feb 2007]
US web stranglehold challenged
News Similarly, Amnesty International has sent a delegation to the Internet Governance Forum in Athens to emphasise the need for protecting free speech. Steve Ballinger, part of Amnesty's... [30 Oct 2006]
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! slammed over China
News betrayed their values and colluded with government censorship in China in pursuit of lucrative revenue opportunities, according to human rights charity Amnesty International. has been singled out as the... [20 Jul 2006]
White House divulges surveillance details
News Sensenbrenner asks the attorney general, for instance, to respond to points raised in a 30 January letter sent by groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International and People for... [09 Feb 2006]
Microsoft feels the heat in web censorship row
News Amnesty International representative Amy O'Meara said the human rights organisation welcomed Smith's suggestion of industry-wide standards for handling oppressive government regulations but felt that... [01 Feb 2006]
Amnesty slams 'colluder' Google
News Amnesty International has hit out at Google over the search giant's agreement to 'collude' with the Chinese government and aid the authorities in censoring the internet. Kate Allen, UK director of... [27 Jan 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.01.06
Round-Up Kate Allen, UK director of Amnesty International, said: "Google and other companies must stop colluding with the Chinese government in restricting people's rights to freedoms of opinion, expression and... [27 Jan 2006]
'Be flexible, not addicted', warns Citrix
News The only Citrix exec in the auditorium at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre to dodge the BlackBerry amnesty was CEO Mark Templeton - "because I'm the boss", he explained - who praised the... [07 Jun 2005]
Syria jails government critic over "unlawful" internet use
News Human rights group Amnesty International has condemned the sentence and is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of four other Syrians currently being held on similar charges. In a public... [21 Jun 2004]
Microsoft, Sun 'contribute to Chinese human-rights abuses'
News Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Cisco are among major IT vendors slammed by Amnesty International for contributing to human-rights abuses by selling technology to the Chinese government that is used to... [02 Feb 2004]
Vietnam silences online activists
News Human rights group Amnesty International has slammed the Vietnamese government for jailing at least 10 people for online activitism, saying the government is using national security legislation to... [28 Nov 2003]
Human rights enshrined in open source software
News In September, Republicans in the US released a report titled "Tear Down This Firewall," and this week, Amnesty International published a report highlighting China's crackdown on internet use. Software... [02 Dec 2002]
Pressure groups hold Snooping Bill summit
News Organisations include Amnesty International, the Broadcasting Union (BECTU), Campaign against the arms trade, Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties, Feminists against censorship, Index on Censorship, the... [05 Jul 2000]
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