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Business & Human Rights at Yahoo!

Information and technology can transform lives, communities, and even political systems. We use information and technology to learn, to inform, to create and to connect. Expanding access to information and technology brings their power to more people, but it can also present complex challenges. At Yahoo!, our business, products, technology and operating footprint increasingly intersect with human rights issues around the world. We know that we, like other companies, have important obligations to the communities in which we operate. Yahoo! is committed to leading in the efforts to protect and promote free expression and privacy on the Internet, so in 2008, we launched the Yahoo! Business & Human Rights Program. The BHRP integrates human rights issues into the way we make business decisions and promotes privacy and free expression through concrete actions. To learn more about what we do, go to Our Initiatives.

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Yahoo! Sponsors Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2010

Yahoo! is sponsoring the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2010, which will be held in Santiago, Chile on May 6-7. The Summit’s theme is “Next generation citizen media, public access and citizen participation.” Global Voices Online will gather with a diverse group of bloggers, activists, technology experts, and journalists from around the world for two days of public discussions and workshops. A two-day internal meeting for Global Voices editors, translators and contributors will follow the public gathering. To learn more, click here.

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