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Tagging for Human Rights

If you are a frequent web surfer, you can use your knowledge and writing skills to help expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable by making human rights more visible on the web. Your 10 to 15 minutes each day, adding content to a social networking site as described below, can go long way to ensuring that others can quickly find information online about human rights.

Promote Articles Covering Human Rights

Social networking services like del.icio.us, digg.com and flickr.com allow users to submit links to a website, bookmarks or images. Users then can add descriptive text and keywords, or tags. These sites aggregate posts with other people’s submissions.

We need your help to make sure that content about human rights shows up on these social bookmark sites. The increased presence of that kind of content can enhance the visibility of the human rights issues we all care about. And it could make it easier for people to find human rights-related information online.

What You Can Do:

• Subscribe to social networking sites (check our resource list for more information)
• Add or promote stories focusing on human rights
• Write descriptive text for these articles or stories
• Create keywords or tags that describe these stories
• Encourage your buddies to participate in this process