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Advarsel: Ikke totalt hjernedød aktivitet, du kan lære noe om menneskerettigheter av ĂĄ spille de…

http://youth-egames.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=84



Alternativ tegneserie

Lese om brudd pĂĄ menneskerettigheter byr ofte pĂĄ lange, offentlige dokumenter, men ikke alltid… Tegneserien “Unknown soldier” byr pĂĄ ett brutalt innblikk i konflikten i Nord-Uganda, en av borgerkrigene sør for Sahara som har vart lengst. Joshua Dysart forteller om geriljabevegelsen Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Mange av soldatene i LRA er bortførte barn. Nesten to millioner er drevet pĂĄ flukt. Barnesoldater og internt fordrevne er bare noen av de mange problemer konflikten fører med seg.

Les tegneserien her: (aldersgrense 18ĂĄr)

http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/12182_1.pdf



The story of stuff

Annie Leonard is an activist who has spent the last ten years travelling around the world fighting environmental threats. In this short movie she gives you a picture of where all the stuff you buy come from, where it goes and how the process of making the product affects the planet.

In the past three decades alone we have used up one third of the planet’s natural resources.  If all humans had the same consumption as the Americans, we would need five worlds to cover our basic needs. Make a change in your consumption-habits and save the climate. The poorest countries are the ones who gets affected the most by climate change. Read more about climate change.

 



Earth Hour

On this Saturday, the 27th of March, you can be a part of a global awareness campaign for climate change. By switching of the lights for one hour starting at 8.30 pm you demonstrate that you are willing to work to create a sustainable low carbon future for our planet. Join the movement together with millions of others from all around the world!



What are human rights?

What are Human Rights? If you ask twenty different people you will probably get twenty different answers.

Here is The Story of Human Rigths.



Norwegian Asylums Leaking Children

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 period 2000-2008, 600 kids disappeared. PRESS – Save the Children Youth thinks the children are an easy target for human trafficking. Last year alone there were 71 children disappearing from asylum centres.


PRESS – Save the Children Youth, expresses the need to prevent this from happening and they are now demanding that asylum-children are given the same treatment as Norwegian orphans. – Nobody would have closed their eyes if this happened to Norwegian kids, says Kirsten Kvalø leader of the organisation, to Dagbladet.




Google says no to Chinese censorship

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 surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.It is great news that big companies such as Google takes responsibility and joins our fight for human rights. Their decision will have great impact on the corporate social responsibility of other companies – and not least on nations such as China which stops people from having free speech.



Youth believe in fighting poverty

A new survey from Norstat proves that 84 prosent of 15 year-olds and youth between 17-19 year olds do not think that poor countries are responsible for their own poverty. 57 prosent states that they believe poverty can be extinguished.

200 youth took part in this survey. Over halv of them said that they think they themselves can contribute towards a better future with regards to reducing poverty.

The survey was conducted on behalf of Strømmestiftelsen.

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Huge success for YouTube Festival

Yesterday Involve Yourself arranged the first ever Music Festival on YouTube. Over 50 bands gave a live performance for Human Rights. Exclusive videos from Datarock, Karin Park, Katzenjammer, The Loch Ness Mouse, Real Ones, Shining and many more are to find on our festival-site. Thousands of people enjoyed a festival withouth rain, muddy boots and annoying crowds.

If you missed out on this great event – do not worry! There is plenty of time to enjoy the Give your live-festival.

Sit back, relax and enjoy some great music! Give Your Live for Human Rights



YouTube-festival

Artists and bands did their video takes for the YouTube music festival at Revolver in Oslo yesterday. The basement where we did the filming was crowded with various artists and production people and the atmosphere was fantastic. Here’s a series of pictures, enjoy!

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