The Latest Announcements in the Blogosphere

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Jeeran Supports (1-Goal) Initiative board

Dubai: Jeeran, the largest Arab user generated online community, has launched a notable advertising campaign through its network to support and promote 1GOAL in the MENA region. The campaign was launched in April 2010 with the purpose of increasing the participation of the Arab world in this universal initiative.

1GOAL is a campaign seizing the power of football to ensure that education for all is a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 1GOAL is bringing together footballers, fans, charities, corporations and individuals to lobby and achieve an ambitious aim of education for everyone. The underlying principle of this campaign is to call on world leaders to make education a reality for 72 million children by 2015.

â€œThis is our chance to show not just out-of-school children, but our own children, that when we make a promise, we keep it. With your help, we could have billions of fans cheering not just for their teams, but for one team: 1GOAL.

This is our moment to shine; we can bring millions of children in from the shadows of ignorance, and light up their lives with the legacy of education.â€‌ ~ Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah Co-Founder and Global Co-Chair, 1GOAL.

The initiative has captured unprecedented support and political will across the world. 1GOALis supported by the football world and its governing body, FIFA. 1GOALsupporters and ambassadors include a multitude of global football stars, celebrities and world leaders, all working to achieve the shared vision of education for all.

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Egypt - Student court martialled for blogging about army human rights violations

Reporters Without Borders condemns university student Ahmed Abdel Fattah Mustafa's trial by court martial for blogging about army human rights violations. Held incommunicado since his arrest by state security agents on 25 February, he appeared today before a Cairo military court on charges of “publishing false news” and trying to “undermine people's confidence in the armed forces.” The trial was adjourned.

“Mustafa is a civilian and there are no grounds for trying him before a military court,” Reporters Without Borders said. “These extraordinary judicial proceedings are designed to intimidate anyone who dares to criticise the army. This is further proof of the government's inability to tolerate sensitive subjects being tackled by bloggers.”

A student at the University of Kafr El Sheikh's engineering faculty and a member of the 6 April Movement,” Mustafa wrote in his blog

(http://hazel2eyes.arabblogs.com/archive/2009/2/805460.html)

in early 2009 about army human rights violations.

It was his lawyer who told his family that he had been arrested. The last entry in his blog was an anonymous comment warning him that he would be punished within two days because he “knew nothing about the army.”

His lawyers have not been allowed access to the findings of the investigation. The military forced Mustafa to delete the blog entry about the army.

Another blogger, Kareem Amer, has been jailed since 2006 for criticising religious authoritarianism and gender discrimination.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Biggest Climate March in History!

The city of Copenhagen closed down yesterday Dec.12 for tens of thousands of participants of the largest climate march and rally in history hold candles to remind world leaders of their hope for a real deal to solve climate change.

Civil society leaders, activists, young leaders, children, even penguins and polar bears from all over the world came together to ask their leaders to definitively action on climate change.

IndyACT- activists at the march yesterday.