Campaigning for human rights in the age of the internet
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Have you ever written to a government about human rights and received no reply? If your experience has been anything like mine you very rarely get any reply and just have to guess whether your letter or e-mail has been taken seriously...
When I go to the cinema I like to be transported to a different part of the world and to learn about what is happening. The local group of Amnesty put on the film "Shooting Dogs" about the Rwandan genocide recently but there are also...
Petitions to the UK Prime Minister takes the tradition of petitions to number 10 Downing Street and brings it up to date for the age of the internet. I recently discovered it by a link from Mark Thomas's site. There are already many...
Most of the history I was taught at school was very dull, just endless facts about kings, queens, battles and dates. (Why did we have to "do the Tudors" so many times?) Nearly all of it was about British history. I was pleased to drop...