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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 capped at £4.50 and this was not an appropriate or convenient rate for Amnesty...

Tags: amnesty international, m-payments, amnesty, mobile

[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 Hendrie-Liaño, said Ispa is "in regular dialogue with the UK government...

Tags: free speech, amnesty, amnesty international, isps

[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 delegation, said: "The Internet Governance Forum needs to know...

Tags: icann, un

[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 worst offender by Amnesty for allowing its...

Tags: amnesty international, google, yahoo!, microsoft

[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 the American Way.

Tags: wiretapping, wiretap, spying, surveillance

[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 Microsoft's move represented only a "very small...

Tags: censor, censorship, china, microsoft

[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 Amnesty International, said: "Google must stop...

Tags: shi tao, google, censorship, yahoo

[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 information.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[27 Jan 2006]

'Be flexible, not addicted', warns Citrix

'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 great strides taken in connectivity and the...

Tags: swindon, citrix, access, working

[07 Jun 2005]

Syria jails government critic over "unlawful" internet use

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 statement Amnesty it considers the trial to be...

[21 Jun 2004]

Microsoft, Sun 'contribute to Chinese human-rights abuses'

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 censor the internet.

[02 Feb 2004]

Vietnam silences online activists

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 prosecute government criticism on the web.

[28 Nov 2003]

Human rights enshrined in open source software

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 distributed under an "enhanced source" licence...

[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 Law Society, Liberty, the Library Association...

[05 Jul 2000]

'Ignore China at your peril' UK firms warned

News Amnesty International was not available for comment at press time. The Internet is giving a huge number of small businesses the opportunity to get access to international markets. UK companies are in danger of missing out on major opportunities in...

[26 May 2000]

Amnesty hands over electronic petition to UN

News Ann Callaghan, campaign co-ordinator at Amnesty International, said its success was largely due to the efforts of the Australian team, who ran ads on Web pages and in the trade press. Amnesty is planning to use email in its campaign to free Tibetan...

[09 Dec 1998]

Chinese human rights Web site comes under attack

News The site was live for only one week before hackers penetrated its security precautions and posted angry protestations and links to human rights Web sites - including Amnesty International. A Chinese government Web site set up to improve the...

[28 Oct 1998]

Amnesty promotes human rights on the Net

News Human rights pressure group, Amnesty International is using its newly launched branded Internet service to boost funds and save money. The service is run for Amnesty members in partnership with an Internet marketing company, Affinity Access, and...

[16 Oct 1998]

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