Excerpted from World Association of Newspapers:
"New Media Under Challenge", with presentations by Soe Myint of Burma, Editor of Mizzima online news service, Sharon Hom, Director of Human Rights in China, Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Managing Editor of the Freedom of the Press Survey at Freedom House, and Anton Nosik, President of the Rambler Search Portal in Russia. The session will be moderated by Abi Wright, Communications Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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For more information on this issue:
- Trends Bulletin:
Media censorship intensifies with continued crackdowns (Updated) - China Rights Forum, No.2 2006:
Technology and Human Rights - Articles, interviews, HRIC issue briefs, resource list and more focusing on the issue of technology and human rights. - China Rights Forum, No.2, 2006:
"A Conversation with Citizen Lab" - Sharon Hom interviews Ron Deibert and Nart Villeneuve on their work battling Internet censorship. - China Rights Forum, No.2, 2006:
"The Hijacked Potential of China's Internet" - He Qinglian details the ways in which government controls have forced China to miss out on the full benefits of the Internet revolution. - Written testimony submitted to U.S. Congressional Hearing:
"The Internet in China: A Tool for Freedom or Suppression?" - China Rights Forum, No.3, 2005:
"Logging on in China's Internet Cafes: An HRIC Field Survey" - China Rights Forum, No.4, 2004:
"Media Control in China" - HRIC Case Study:
"Human Rights and Spam: A China Case Study" - China Rights Forum, No.3, 2003:
"The Rise of the Internet and Advancing Human Rights"
