Getty Closer to 10th Annivesary of Falun Gong Persecution
July 20 will mark the 10th year of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China by the Chinese communist regime. Thousands of practitioners and supporters are expected to participate in activities in Washington, D.C., plus many more all around the world.
Interestingly, the year 2009 sees the 50th anniversay of the Tibetan takeover, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and now the 10th anniversary of the Falun Gong persecution.
US Embassy Releases Statement About Green Dam
“The U.S. Government is concerned about Green Dam both in terms of its potential impact on trade and the serious technical issues raised by use of the software. … The U.S. is concerned about actions that seek to restrict access to the Internet as well as restrictions on the internationally recognized right to freedom of expression. They should push for a commercial solution. If the government is purporting to be focused on blocking pornography, then the industry should work with the government to ensure that there is an open market for quality net-nanny products in China. If the government wants to require computer makers to install net-nanny software at the factory, then the computer makers should be free to choose which software they believe would be most effective without damaging the performance of the computers they sell.”
Human Rights Quote #1
Let’s start off with some quote material:
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man’s basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.”
–U Thant, Third United Nations Secretary-General, 1961-1971
China’s Green Dam Filtering Software
One of the main way the Chinese regime keeps news about the human rights atrocities it commits out of the mainstream is to censor and filter Internet access for Chinese citizens. You may hear of the Great Firewall of China.
Recently, the Chinese regime required that all new computers in China be installed with its Internet filtering software called Green Dam.
Computer experts and human rights watchdogs, upon examining the software, found two primary findings which are shocking but unexpected.
Read more on The Epoch Times’ article: Green Dam Filtering Software a Censorship Boondoggle
Human-Rights.ws Is Back!
After sitting idle for a couple of years and getting comment spammed to death, this human rights blog is back and coming to life! And it’s running on the freshest new version of Wordpress.
Human rights is, and should be, one of the most important issues everybody face and think about. A human being and life should have the most basic rights. Human rights being violated anywhere are the concern for all citizens of this world. Until the basic rights of a human being is respected and upheld, human life will not fully valued.
That’s it for this first post to get this blog going again. Please check back soon.