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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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For fifteen years China has refused to press its closest ally to allow its people human rights, and used its veto power to block the UN Security Council from acting. Disband the Publicity Department (the former Propaganda Department), which exercises daily control over content in the Chinese press.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

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The IT press was buzzing in late April about the free portable WiFi embedded by Microsoft in select May 6 Forbes Magazine print issues. The IT press has been covering lots new developments lately in paying by mobile phone. Strange News. Yes that's right. Microsoft has placed an Office 365. Digital Wallets.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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Find the European Court of Justice press release here. Our TechSoup Global partners there are also working hard on disaster relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through the Community Boost r program and also a project called Mapa Poplava. Here in the U.S., I particularly like The Guardian’s coverage of this.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

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Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. Digital Wallets.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? 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.

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