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International Human Rights Day 2011

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2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. In my Fall 2011 President’s Update , I mentioned PBS NewsHour’s two stories, and complete press coverage of our work is listed on our website. The year 2011 has shown in many ways that the arc of history is bending toward justice.

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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

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Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. We held the meeting in Chiang Mai because it’s where our longtime partner the Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) is headquartered.

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