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Anonymous claims hacks on 500 Chinese websites

...Anonymous has recently turned its attention to the human rights struggle in China, hacking and defacing hundreds of government and commercial... Read more

5 April, 2012 by Steven Musil

Government data policy is flawed, report says

...data is "fundamentally flawed", according to a report from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. The EHRC has joined in long-running complaints from privacy... Read more

16 August, 2011 by Mark Say

UN report calls for review of UK copyright crackdown

...users, according to a report due to be adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on Friday. The UK should revise or repeal the Digital... Read more

2 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Cisco accused of aiding Chinese repression in lawsuit

...filed on behalf of the religious group by the Washington, DC-based Human Rights Law Foundation. The 52-page lawsuit names chairman and chief executive... Read more

23 May, 2011 by Steven Musil

MPs flag privacy concerns in Freedoms Bill

...the national DNA database may not ensure compliance with the UK's human rights obligations, or may risk new infringements of individual rights, Parliament's... Read more

10 October, 2011 by Sade Laja

Home Office: Police will retain data on innocent people

...they were charged or convicted of an offence. The European Court of Human Rights ruled against the policy of indefinite retention of a person's... Read more

27 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

Europe ready to overhaul data-retention law

...digital rights groups, said on Monday that the report's analysis of human rights concerns is a "whitewash". We think the report's a whitewash... Read more

18 April, 2011 by David Meyer

Human rights sites must improve DDoS strategy

Distributed denial of service attacks against independent media and human rights sites have been common in 2010 and are expected to become... Read more

23 December, 2010
<endeca_term>Human Rights</endeca_term> Law Concentrate (Undergraduate MCQs from Oxford University Press) 1.1

Human Rights Law Concentrate (Undergraduate MCQs from Oxford University Press) 1.1

Human Rights Law Concentrate is a high quality revision guide published in print... Read more

24 April, 2012
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Human Rights 02

...app allows you to search and read 145 of the most important Human Rights texts today. Specifically, it contains Human Rights docs relating to: 1... Read more

11 February, 2012
<endeca_term>Human Rights</endeca_term> Watch for iPad 1.2

Human Rights Watch for iPad 1.2

Introducing the Human Rights Watch iPad application. This app brings you the weeks foremost human... Read more

1 February, 2012
Silicon Valley <endeca_term>Human Rights</endeca_term> Conference 1.0.1

Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference 1.0.1

...how the high-tech industry can better plan for and manage the human rights implications of their technologies. It is an outcome-oriented event, centered... Read more

21 October, 2011
United Nations Declaration of <endeca_term>Human Rights</endeca_term> [UN] 1.1

United Nations Declaration of Human Rights [UN] 1.1

This edition to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains the complete text of the Declaration. It includes all thirty... Read more

30 August, 2011
United Nations Declaration of <endeca_term>Human Rights</endeca_term> HD [UN] 1.1

United Nations Declaration of Human Rights HD [UN] 1.1

This edition to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains the complete text of the Declaration. It includes all thirty... Read more

30 August, 2011
Charter of Fundamental <endeca_term>Human Rights</endeca_term> 1.0

Charter of Fundamental Human Rights 1.0

The Charter of Fundamental Human Rights in all 23 official languages of the European Union Read more

27 August, 2011

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