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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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According to their site: "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games in 2001, disregarding international criticism of China's human rights record. Both the IOC and the Chinese have argued that the Games will "improve human rights in China" and therefore Tibet.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

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The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. " It is intended to be a dynamic public database of tech innovators for good around the world. TechSoup Technologies for Good. Hacker Helper. All Things D.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it. Since then, the network has grown to include hundreds of members residing in the UK, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, China, and Canada.

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