Bloggers united for human rights

It’s Bloggers Unite for Human Rights Day. Here’s a quick focus on two blogs/bloggers:

- Burmese Bloggers Without Borders is an independent voice reaching out to the rest of the world. In March they highlighted the case of two Rangoon journalists who were imprisoned. Amnesty International has also taken up the case of Thet Zin and Sein Win Maung.

- Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer has been in prison for over a year now, for writing about political repression, religious extremism and discrimination against women. Amnesty is also working for his release.

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4 Responses to “Bloggers united for human rights”


  1. 1 AmandaNo Gravatar

    Global Voices Online is also great for keeping an eye on these issues as well as an insight into discussions outside the angloblogosphere in general.
    http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/

  2. 2 suzNo Gravatar

    Here’s a great example of an English blogger using the Day to highlight a human rights concern.

  3. 3 KimNo Gravatar

    Thanks for the post, suz! Is there some sort of roundup planned for how bloggers have responded?

  4. 4 suzNo Gravatar

    Kim, on the Bloggers United website linked above, they have asked bloggers to send in links to their posts for the day. So far there’s 455 replies.

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