May 20, 2013
- "Fair Deal" seeks to maintain access to knowledge, economic opportunity, fundamental rights. The Canadian-based organization Open Media International (http://openmedia.org/) announced on May 16 that it is launching an international coalition called "Our Fair Deal (http://ourfairdeal.org/)," seeking to counter the potential restrictions on the Internet posed by an international agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (http://www.ustr.gov/tpp) (TPP). The TPP is currently being...
- "Fair Deal" seeks to maintain access to knowledge, economic opportunity, fundamental rights. The Canadian-based organization Open Media International (http://openmedia.org/) announced on May 16 that it is launching an international coalition called "Our Fair Deal (http://ourfairdeal.org/)," seeking to counter the potential restrictions on the Internet posed by an international agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (http://www.ustr.gov/tpp) (TPP). The TPP is currently being...
May 15, 2013
- Taiwan Church News
3193 Edition
May 6-12, 2013
Headline NewsPro-Taiwanese organizations promote “Festival on Taiwanese Romanization” to raise awareness about POJ
Reported by Chen Yi-hsuan
Written by...
May 13, 2013
U.S. commission tracks key offenders; some optimism over new ‘watch list’ countries
May 13, 2013 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Elizabeth Lechleitner/ANN
This year’s report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has Seventh-day Adventist human rights experts...
April 15, 2013
April 11, 2013
“I came away inspired by what I have seen in the Presbyterian Church of Vietnam,” says WCRC General Secretary,Setri Nyomi,following a three-day tour of Vietnam.
Setri Nyomi and Nguyen Mba Nha in "attic church"
April 1, 2013
[Episcopal News Service] Military service is an historical tradition in Navajo culture.
In Mike Bekis’ immediate family, for instance, 38 members have served or are currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.
“Just like my five uncles before us, they were all World War II [veterans], all of us have stepped up,” said Bekis, in a telephone call from Farmington, New Mexico, with ENS. “And we just followed in their footsteps.”
In May 2012, Bekis, who served in...
March 26, 2013
- Report criticizes Syria, China, Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam. IFEX (http://www.ifex.org/), a Toronto-based network of organisations committed to defending and promoting freedom of expression as a fundamental human right, reports on a study that looks at the way governments are increasingly using technology that monitors online activity. It allows them to intercept electronic communication in order to arrest journalists, citizen-journalists and dissidents. On 12 March 2013, the World Day...
- Report criticizes Syria, China, Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam. IFEX (http://www.ifex.org/), a Toronto-based network of organisations committed to defending and promoting freedom of expression as a fundamental human right, reports on a study that looks at the way governments are increasingly using technology that monitors online activity. It allows them to intercept electronic communication in order to arrest journalists, citizen-journalists and dissidents. On 12 March 2013, the World Day...