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What Does Human Rights Mean to You?

Have Fun - Do Good

I'm going to pick one to get involved with: Protect Three Victims of Police Brutality in Mexico (UA 330/08) Protect Syrian Prisoner From Torture (UA 328/08) Prevent Torture of Prisoner in Syria (UA 326/08) Why do you believe every human has rights? by Chris Michael on WITNESS' The Hub blog. •

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization. The birth of CompuMentor is described in Howard Rheingold’s The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. And I do see that movement building.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

The original version of Movements.org was founded in 2008 by then-U.S. David Keyes is very clear that the mission of Movements.org and in fact all of the Advancing Human Rights programs is to empower human rights activists in closed societies like Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea.

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