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Change for Burma! Tour highlights human rights violations By: Inspire Magazine, February 5, 2009 A UK tour highlighting the plight of thousands of people living under Burma's brutal regime, continues during February with more visits to churches and Christian groups. Change for Burma! a joint campaign between Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) and Partners Relief and Development UK, aims to raise awareness, kickstart international action over Burma's human rights violations and bring long-lasting change for the country. Read full article... Video: Vlogging for the blind By: Juliana Rincón Parra, Global Voices, February 3, 2009 Nicomedes Flores from Voces Bolivianas blogging movement in Bolivia explains how Open Source Software designed for the visually impaired helps him communicate online with chatting, emailing and blogging. Meanwhile, in Ethiopia, an UNESCO and the International Telecommunication Union sponsored organization trains the blind and those with visual disabilities on how to use computers and communication technologies, and an employee and advocate of the ENOVIB network for the blind speaks to youth about how blindness can be an opportunity instead of a disability. Read full article... Sure we can! By: Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone, Idealist.org, February 2, 2009 This is an audio portrait of a "canner" named Eugene "The King of Can's" Gadsen and the work that he and his friends and colleagues Ana Martinez De Luco and Drew Swope are doing to improve the conditions of their community. Read full article...
Call for applications, Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge By: Peace and Collabrative Development Network, February 4, 2009 The Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley is pleased to announce the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge. Recent innovations in science and technology, especially mobile technologies, have provided human rights advocates, journalists, and scientists with new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and disseminate this information in real time throughout the world. Deadline to apply: March 13, 2009. For more information... Free West Papua Campaign newsletter & urgent action By: Free West Papua, February 2009 Indonesian police have raided a makeshift exodus camp in Jayapura, next to the grave of Theys Eluay, the head of the Papuan Presidium Council who was assassinated by the Indonesian military in November 2001. Despite being a peaceful settlement on tribal lands owned by Papuans, the police backed up by Indonesian military raided the camp and proceeded to destroy it, and also arrested some of those Papuans present. For more information... Scholarships offered by The Henrich Boell Foundation to students with shared goals of democracy, ecology, solidarity and nonviolence The Heinrich Boell Foundation is offering scholarships for German and foreign students studying at a university who have a positive attitude towards the goals of the Green project, share the fundamental ideals of the Heinrich Boell Foundation - democracy, ecology, solidarity and non-violence - and who take an active socio-political role. Application deadline is March 1, 2009. For more information...
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