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Thanks to ICTs, the discourse of human rights
is now spreading beyond the elite settings of in-
tergovernmental agencies, academic institutions
and international NGOs, to the villages and towns
of the oppressed. The online world is increasingly
being used to stimulate debate and learning about
human rights, sometimes through active citizen
participation in the reporting of violations.Access
to information enables human rights promotion
through reflection and learning, and while much
of what is reported may never be used to build
a case against the human rights offenders, it sets
in motion processes that ultimately lead, through
empowerment, to greater protection from abuse,
persecution and oppression.

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