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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... [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... [20 Feb 2007]
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... [27 Jan 2006]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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... [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... [20 Jul 2006]
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]
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]
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]
'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... [07 Jun 2005]
'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]
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]
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