http://involveyourself.com Give your face and involve yourself. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:39:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amnesty has released a new report, saying that women raped in the Nordic countries have little chance of acquiring justice. The rapists are rarely punished for their abuses. In the report “Case Closed, Rape and Human Rights in the Nordic Countries”, the situation for rape-victims in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and ... http://involveyourself.com/when-the-justice-system-fails Poor countries get ripped off by multinational companies Between 2002 and 2006, multinational companies have ripped off poor countries by between 98 and 106 billion dollars annually, according to a new report from Global Financial Integrity (GFI). The countries loose tax money due to a form of mispricing. This ... http://involveyourself.com/how-to-get-filthy-rich-by-stealing-from-the-poor Children keep disappearing from Norwegian asylum centres. Many of these may be victims of human trafficking and there is great reason to believe that several have been recruited into organised crime and narcotics. The problem of disappearing children is continuously increasing and most of them are never found. In the time ... http://involveyourself.com/norwegian-asylums-leaking-children A new report from Iran Human Rights shows that over 400 people were executed in Iran in 2009. The reasons behind the executions are political disobedience, rape, drug trafficking and murder. One of the authors of the report, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, claims that the executions are meant to spread fear amongst the Iranian people ... http://involveyourself.com/400-executed-in-iran-last-year It is a human right to have access to education. One of UNs Millenium Development Goals is to secure that all children have the right to education by the year 2015. However, a new report states that if we don't work harder internationally towards this goal, we will end up with 56 million children ... http://involveyourself.com/72-million-children-withouth-education Why travel to a huge film festival when you can make your own festival right where you are? At Oslo Dokumentarkino you can buy three movies from last years "Human Rights, Human Wrongs" festival. For 250 Norwegian kroner you get the movies China Blue, Shadow of the Holy Book and Darwin’s nightmare ... http://involveyourself.com/make-your-own-mini-film-festival-about-globalization-and-human-rights Google might stop their services in China due to Chinese attacks on Google's system and their censorship. After investigating the attack Google have reasons to believe that they have tried to get information about Google-acconts linked to Human Rights activists. Below is an abstract from their blog: These attacks and the ... http://involveyourself.com/google-says-no-to-chinese-censorship 1. Katzenjammer with 719 votes 2. Breed with 701 votes 3. Inception with 352 votes We are glad to announce the winners of our YouTube Music-festival, Give Your Live, which took place on the 14th December 2009. Our audience have given their votes and Katzenjammer, Breed and Inception are the winners. The prize is historical. Their songs ... http://involveyourself.com/winners-of-youtube-festival-are After the YouTube-festival on the 14th December 2009, we arranged a voting-contest! Amongst the 55 band which gave their live contribution to the festival, 3 have the chance to get their songs onto the New Golden Record. At the end of the contest which ended on the 31st December, we have ... http://involveyourself.com/involve-yourself-investigates-cheating After continous campaigning The Norwegian Student Board has decided not to renew another deal with Coca-Cola. This means there will be n Coca-Cola products in Norwegian universities or in schools of higher education. The board has based their decision on price compared to other suppliers of soft-drinks, but also on ethical grounds. ... http://involveyourself.com/norwegian-students-stops-deal-with-coca-cola