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Mary Robinson on media freedom

30 May, 2008
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by Alexandra Samuel

The Elders' Every Human Has Rights campaign has just relaunched its site (on Drupal!) We've been privileged to work with the EHHR team in telling the story of the Universal Declaration of Human Rig

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Every Human Has Rights makes human rights personal

The Elders harness online campaign tools for social change

23 April, 2008
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by Alexandra Samuel

For the past two months, I've been part of the digital strategy team for The Elders, an extraordinary NGO that was launched last year by Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel. The vision is to convene a council of elders for the global village; the founding elders include Desmond Tutu, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mary Robinson and Kofi Annan.

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Ep. 17: the big-jar-of-change episode

16 March, 2008
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by Alex and Rob

Alex came home from a talk by Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus, and she was in a soul-searching frame of mind. How does the web support meaningful social change? And is there a particular kind of change the web does an especially good job at?

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