These high-tech bracelets combat activist kidnappings with a tweet

April 5, 2013 10:00 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Human rights organization Civil Rights Defenders distributed the first set of "Natalia Project" bracelets, which use GPS technology and social media to send out a distress signal if an activist or aid worker is taken hostage.

Facebook will give you $20K for your brilliant human rights idea

May 31, 2012 1:34 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Use Facebook? Of course you do! But do you use it in a way that promotes and improves human rights?

If you have a great idea or application that uses the Facebook platform for human rights, the company just might …

Vint Cerf: Internet access isn’t a human right

January 5, 2012 9:49 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Vint Cerf, one of the godfathers of the web and chief Internet evangelist for Google, wrote a controversial op-ed for the New York Times today saying that Internet access is not a human right.

With all the protests and unrest …