Posted on December 7, 2007 by Sameer Padania
Next Monday, December 10, is International Human Rights Day, and it seems a good moment do our bit to make sure we don’t forget Burma.
COHRE (the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions) has posted two reports - one on Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Displacement and Land Rights in Burma (pdf) and the other naming Burma [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2007 by Sameer Padania
As I mentioned in my last post, a number of the Egypt police brutality videos at the Hub had been embedded from Wael Abbas’ YouTube account. When his account was suspended, these videos on the Hub (and everywhere else they were embedded) stopped playing. We’ve now managed to restore some of the key videos, and [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2007 by Sameer Padania
News just in from Hossam El-Hamalawy…:
I’ve just received the following message from blogger and friend Wael Abbas…
disaster: youtube disables my account claiming there were complaints about my police torture videos!!!
This is un-bloody-believable. YouTube has just disabled probably the most important channel for the Egyptian blogosphere. Wael’s videos have been central in the fight against [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2007 by Sameer Padania
[Slight changes below, after a second look at the project...]
For me, the 2002 series I Have A Right To… still represents a good benchmark for how the BBC’s World Service can knit together human rights resources of real and lasting value - and that others can use and build on.
Now, the World Service is celebrating [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2007 by Sameer Padania
The Citizen Media Law Project has come out with two excellent resources in the last week, both of which are going to be tools for the Hub:
1. “A report entitled “Fair Use Principles for User Generated Video Content” that sets out six guidelines designed to minimize the collateral damage that copyright enforcement efforts may inflict [...]
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