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Kiran
02 May 2012, 16:17
Hi again PaulOf course, as Sanjana will also no doubt agree, a lot of the
real cuinttg edge human rights work is being done in the kinds of places
where practitioners wouldn't really want to be heard shouting about it.
Maybe human rights, more than any other discipline, finds itself in this
situation. When, for example, the Nigerian NGO contacted me about their
monitoring efforts in the elections there, my first reaction was to hold
back any news since I had no idea what danger, if any, they would put
themselves into if the authorities got wind of it. As it turns out there
were keen for me to push it out wherever I could, and fortunately the BBC
decided to bite and it all went well for them (not the actual election, but
their monitoring).Over the past year or so, more and more human rights
organisations have been in touch with me to ask for input, advice, help,
access to FrontlineSMS etc. I would love to have pushed these stories out,
but haven't been able to for obvious reasons. It's a shame, but it's not me
putting my neck on the line and we obviously need to be careful what we say
in public.Ken
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