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Apr 9 2009 12:00PM
Mobile phone campaigns in Kenya

Last week I went to the ‘E-campaigning forum’ also named for the specialists as ‘ECF09′. The event is for people who are into online campaigning. It’s in Oxford and it’s a good opportunity to network with people from non-profit...

Apr 8 2009 5:19PM
Panic on the streets of London Bangkok, Chisanu, Colombo

Lots of talk about protest today- not least the shocking footage that the Guardian’s got hold of, showing riot police shoving Ian Tomlinson to the ground shortly before he died of a heart attack. Some witnesses are saying that he has...

Apr 8 2009 3:59PM
Retrial on the killing of a rainforest activist

Dorothy Stang was an American nun and rainforest activist, one of many people murdered in Brazil for standing up for the rights of the poor and against the destruction of the Amazonian forest. As many as 1100 activists, small farmers...

Apr 7 2009 4:58PM
The g-word

When Niluccio used the term ‘the g-word’ in our morning roundup today, I quickly whispered to another colleague, asking what he meant. Genocide. Yes, a word with serious charges and devastating consequences – definitely not a term to...

Apr 6 2009 7:23PM
My first Amnesty AGM, and AIUK will be doin' it for the kids.

I am most thankful that I can start writing away on this brand new blog about something so positive! 'Tis the huge success for children's rights at the Amnesty Conference and AGM in Swansea this weekend just gone. The resolution...