Hi everyone,

Hope your Monday is going well so far. Just a quick note to steer you toward a few points of interest…

As some of you may already know, next week is the start of Refugee Week. Between the 18th and 24th of June, there will be a UK-wide programme of arts, cultural and educational events taking place to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK. There is a Refugee Week blog that you might find interesting at http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/getinvolved/blog.htm, as well as several ways in which you can get involved. Check out http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10221#blog to see what you can do to take part.

In the run-up to Refugee Week, we are reminded of the continuing crisis in Darfur and the countless numbers of people there who are being forced to flee their homes and livelihoods as refugees. Last week Amnesty launched the ‘Eyes on Darfur’ project. This project is a website for which Satellite cameras have been employed in order for ordinary people (like all of us) to monitor events on the ground in 12 Darfuri villages. The site is http://www.eyesondarfur.org/ and you can find out more about the project from our press release http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17368.

Lastly, on a more flowery note, our web team have created a very cool animation and screensaver for blogs and websites which we thought you should see. Take a look at it and, if you like what you see, copy and past the code(s) at http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10903. We think it is rather lovely indeed! Hope you do too and that it will grow its way around the web in no time.

That’s it for today. Until next time…
Liz and Steve
The Project Blog seedlings

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Be afraid, be very afraid…

Amnesty launched its annual report today on the state of human rights around the world – it’s a massive, comprehensive round-up of the year’s human rights developments.

This year the report focuses on how governments and armed groups alike have used ‘the politics of fear’ to turn people against each other and create an increasingly polarised world.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

You can read more on our website at:
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17360

or can see the whole report online at:http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/Homepage

and join the debate at the Guardian’s Comment is Free site at:


There are also video clips of key events at

And audio at:


The report also highlights attacks on freedom of expression in the last year, from the legal restrictions on journalists in Russia and Turkey - both countries where high-profile journalists were murdered – to the struggle for dissent online as activists used the internet to get stories out and governments tried to stop them. The Times’ take on the report is really interesting in that respect: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1828944.ece

“Bloggers are on the frontline in the global rights battle’, says the Times.

We couldn’t agree more.

Spread the word,

Steve and Liz
The ‘Project Blog’ team at Amnesty