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Friday, December 9, 2011

Human Rights and Social Media

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Human rights to the viral in 2011, people around the world using social media such as Twitter to protest against the dictatorship, the UN Human Rights Chief said on Friday.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in the message, the Human Rights Day on the eve of this year in the Arab world, as ordinary men, women and children to use Facebook and other social media platforms can withstand the power of the transfer of long-ruling dictator . Pillay said in a statement: "Today, in the past, editing, and financial factors - and access - to decide whether to protest, protest repression, television or newspaper reports around the world,."

"But it took place, you can guarantee it will be tweeted on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube on the broadcast, and posting on the Internet," she said. "In short, in 2011, the virus of human rights."

The United Nations is the extensive use of social media to mark the "World Declaration of Human Rights," 63 anniversary on Saturday.

Pillay, who is based in Geneva, is the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Friday to answer some of the hundreds of casting on respect for human rights through social media platform issues.

Known as the "30 days, 30 right," United Nations social media campaign is launched on November 10, with a daily release of the Rio Declaration, "the 30 specific articles.

UN human rights office said that more than 100 million people watching, including Tunis, Tunisia and the city particularly strong, from the interests of the Facebook page, Giza and Cairo, Egypt, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Indonesia Jakarta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Geneva; London and New York.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that human rights belong to everyone.

"Ban said," but unless we know unless we ask them to be respected, unless we defend our rights - and rights of others - the exercise of these, they will file in a few years old then.

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