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Dangerous Ambivalence: UK Policy on Torture since 9/11: Undermining the Torture Ban

November 04, 2006 By: fotdmike Category: Human Rights, Politics

Dangerous Ambivalence: UK Policy on Torture since 9/11: Undermining the Torture Ban

The British government has sought to undermine and continues to undermine the global ban on torture in a variety of ways. Taken together, these various policies pose a significant danger.

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Internet Censorship

October 31, 2006 By: fotdmike Category: Censorship, Computers Internet & Stuff

In the continuing battle against internet censorship Amnesty International have launched a campaign, irrepressible.info, to combat the insidious encroachment on our freedoms of speech and communication.

Irrepressible Adj. 1) Impossible to repress or control.

Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.

The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression.

Amnesty International, with the support of The Observer UK newspaper, is launching a campaign to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress.

Find out more about this campaign

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