Tag: HUMAN RIGHTS

Americans might be on the fence about whether or not health care is a right or a privilege, but they seem to be in agreement with the vast majority of the world's population when it comes to the question of Internet access being a fundamental right. An international survey, conducted by the BBC World Service, found that 79-percent of respondents thought that having access to the Web was a basic ...

When Google launched its service in China back in 2006, the search giant came under intense criticism for caving to government demands to filter and censor search results. Google originally defended its decision by saying that the benefits of granting access to a wealth of information outweighed the the company's discomfort with being forced to censor the results. But something has changed. ...

In a move sure to raise more than a few eyebrows, authorities who manage a former Nazi concentration camp have set up a Facebook page for the infamous establishment. Auschwitz, now a Polish state museum, was the site of over 1 million murders at the hands of the Nazi regime, and now has its very own Facebook presence, the BBC reports. Officials set up the page in an effort to raise awareness and ...

The movie 'Blood Diamond' helped alert the world to the horrors of the illegal diamond trade, which predominately occurs in war-torn African countries where the proceeds benefit terrorists and militias. Eve Ensler, a playwright most widely known for 'The Vagina Monologues,' is now trying to warn the world of another product produced amid conflict and strife. Ensler contended during an interview ...