Internet´s greatest achievement is the democratization of information, not only regarding how users access it, but also how it´s released. That is the very reason why taking control over the Internet is the objective of authoritarian systems, which fight for its domination whilst depriving it of this merit. However, the NGO “Reporters without borders” has published a report specifically to condemn Internet´s enemies.
The office of the High place Commissioned for the Human Rights of United Nations has put at the disposal of the organizations a guide for the agents of the civil society who work with this program of the International organization. The guide explains how the diverse mandates and the mechanisms of the human rights of United Nations work, and how the members of such of civil society, as organisations defenders of the human rights, the not governmental organizations and the academic institutions, can interact with them an as efficient as possible way.
Poverty is no longer that tattered old woman, begging and dressed in black. Poverty today has a thousand faces - happy ones, young ones, child-like ones, ones with dark skin and others with white gloves - but all of them would be subject to less poverty if they had the Internet at their disposal. With “Blog Action Day 2008 poverty” in mind, which takes place on 15 October, I want to share this post with you. Perhaps it'll make a child smile or bring a tear to the eye of a grown man.
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Today we recommend Accessibility Color Wheel, the fruit of our collaboration with the Associació Catalana de Cecs i Disminuïts Visuals (Catalonian Society for the Blind and Partially Sighted).
