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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Through projects that integrated statistical analyses into multidisciplinary human rights work, we engaged in the public debate about human rights violations in Colombia.

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How Nonprofits Can Steward Corporate Donors on Social Media

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By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. The Global FoodBanking Network, FedEx, and International Paper. International Paper and FedEx worked together to leverage their core competencies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

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One of our biggest areas of work is in Colombia, a place where violence and human rights abuses are not a thing of the past. They concentrate on recovering the remains of the many people disappeared during Colombia's complex and violent internal conflicts. One of the EQUITAS staff was assaulted last month multiple times.

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Benetech Human Rights Data Analysts Uncover Critical Evidence

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Discovered by chance, these police and prison records told the stories of serious human rights violations from the perspective of the perpetrators. The past year of research by HRDAG analysts has supported key criminal prosecutions and uncovered the truth about political violence in Guatemala, Iran, Colombia, Chad and Liberia.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Human Rights Patrick Ball recently spent a month at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he held office hours and helped prosecutors use quantitative data and statistical analysis to pursue war crimes cases. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work.

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This Young Woman Keeps Her Gloves On: Maria Estela Godinez

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

story and photo via Ricardo's Blog. Ricardo tells her story on his blog: Maria Estela built a glove that allows speech-challenged people to move their fingers in a similar fashion to Braille language and have those signals recognized by software that converts them into speech. Colombia???s Her passion is electronics.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

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She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. Do you have a story about global philanthropy you'd like share?