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MobileActive in the Economist, NY Times, and Canadian Broadcasting Service

April 12, 2008 | CorinneRamey
file under:
CBC, cell phones, economist, election monitoring, human rights, mobile activism, new york times, press, video

MobileActive has been in the news this week, including in a special section on 'mobility' in the Economist, titled "A World of Witnesses." The article discusses various ways that mobile phones have been used for social good, including in health, election monitoring, and recording human rights abuses.

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Witness

file under:
citizen journalism, hub, human rights, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Media and Journalism
operates in:
United States

contact:

The Hub, a project of human rights advocacy group WITNESS, is a website that hopes to create a new space for human rights related video content, including footage shot on mobile phones.

According to the Hub website,

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References / Past Projects

Read more about the Hub on the MobileActive blog.



Using Mobile Phones to Advance Human Rights

December 10, 2007 | CorinneRamey
file under:
human rights, mobile monitoring, the hub, video, witness

A new website called the Hub, calling itself "the global platform for human rights media and action," has its official beta launch today in honor of International Human Rights Day. The Hub, a project of human rights advocacy group WITNESS, hopes to create a new space for human rights related video content, including footage shot on mobile phones.

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Join the discussion on mobiles in human rights!

November 28, 2007 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
human rights, mobile phone, mobileactive, new tactics

Just back from MobileActive07 in Brazil (more on that shortly!) we are immediately jumping into sharing some of our learnings in an online discussion on using mobiles in human rights work over with our colleagues at New Tactics. Please join us there where we'll be dicussing with human rights practitioners all over the world question like:

1) How are you using mobiles in human rights work?

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New Tactics Discussion: Using Mobile Phones in Action

November 17, 2007 | CorinneRamey
file under:
activism, human rights, mobileactive, new tactics

New Tactics, a community for people committed to human rights, is sponsoring a virtual discussion on "Using Mobile Phones in Action" from November 28 to December 4. MobileActive.org is partnering with New Tactics and is also participating in this online conversation. We all believe that "strategic and tactical thinking, long used by business and military strategists, is an effective means for the human rights movement to expand options and possibilities of what can be done." The discussion will focus on tactics for activism using mobile phones.

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A Day of Red For Burma. Today.

September 28, 2007 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
burma, human rights, protests

The MobileActive.org community stands with the people who so courageously demanded a free and democratic Burma. Our thoughts are with you on this dark day for human rights and democracy.



Indiba-Africa Development Alliance

file under:
human rights, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, mobile, sms
operates in:
South Africa

contact:
anil@indiba-africa.org.za

For Immediate Release

RURAL WOMEN PRODUCE RADIO PROGRAMMES ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST THEM

Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa – 13 September 2007

Rural women in KwaZulu Natal will soon be producing their own radio programmes on human rights issues affecting them. This is an initiative of the UmNyango Project, which is currently using SMS technology for rural women and men in KwaZulu Natal to access information to and report incidences of violence against women and children, as well as violations of women’s right to land. There are currently 160 people using this facility, with the overwhelming number being women users.

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References / Past Projects

To strengthen and support government departments, statutory institutions (such as national human rights institutions and parastatals), the private sector and civil society organisations to instigate and enhance their capacity to enable integrated and sustainable emancipatory initiatives which promote political, socio-economic, cultural and environmental justice



Control Arms -- Using Mobiles for Petition Campaign

January 20, 2006 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
human rights, mobile activism, petition campaign

Control Arms, a joint campaign of Oxfam, Amnesty, and Iansa, is running the 'Million Faces' campaign to push for an international arms trade treaty.  Mobile users can upload teir picture and join the petition via their mobile phones in the UK (curiously this is not mentioned anywhere on the site..)

Here is how it works: To join the call for an international arms treaty on a mobile phone, participants text the word 'petition' followed by their full name to a number in the UK (84118) and their name is automatically added to the Million Faces petition.  Alternatively, they can upload their picture (to 07955 474747) with their name and age and their photo will be added to the petition. 

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