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Digital Natives with a Cause
Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society (India) proudly present their joint study “Digital Natives with a cause?”. This new publication shows that young people are sensitive and thoughtful and more then willing to contribute to change in their societies. It proves that the common complaint that young people are not interested in politics, is mainly a result of insufficient understanding of the world of youngsters. Digital Natives - youths thriving on digital technologies - are sensitive and thoughtful; it is time to listen to them.
Do you have a right to online knowledge? Report shows open internet in danger
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 16 November 2009
A new report that reveals how vulnerable the internet as we know it is, has just been published by two global civil society organisations. The annual report, called Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch), was released today by the Association for Progressive Communications and Dutch-funder Hivos. GISWatch 2009 is entitled Access to online information and knowledge – advancing human rights and democracy.
Iranian Women’s rights activist Shadi Sadr receives Dutch Human Rights Tulip Award today
Today Shadi Sadr, founder and director of the Iranian legal aid centre Raahi (on the road) in Tehran, has been awarded the prestigious Dutch Human Rights Tulip Award. Hivos has been cooperating with Raahi and Shadi Sadr from 2004 until 2007, when Raahi had to close its doors in a wave of repression against civil society activists who had contacts with the West. Shadi Sadr was repeatedly arrested and elaborately interrogated about her role as human rights defender/women’s rights activist and about the funding, which she received from the West for this work.
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