Amnesty International Internet Freedom Campaign

Amnesty International is celebrating their 45th anniversary and the organisation launched a new campaign, irrepressible.info, to challenge repression on the internet. It aims to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress.

Amnesty announced launch of the campaign for internet freedom -

The campaign launches on May 28 with a new website http://irrepressible.info enabling people to join the campaign by signing a simple pledge opposing internet repression. Thousands of online pledges will be collected, calling on all governments and companies to respect internet freedom. These will be presented to a UN meeting on the future of the internet in November 2006.

Amnesty is asking people to turn censorship on itself by putting a unique badge on their own site or email signature. The badge contains excerpts from websites that governments have censored for political reasons – so every person that takes part, will be helping to broadcast censored content that the authorities have tried to repress.

You can participate in the Amnesty campaign by joining them and signing the pledge for internet freedom.