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3 unusual facts about A Human Right


A Human Right

In December, 2010 they launched Buy This Satellite, a fundraising effort to purchase the TerreStar-1 communications satellite, after its owner, TerreStar Corporation, filed for bankruptcy.

A Human Right hopes that providing internet access to impoverished regions of the world would help to solve many of their problems, such as shortages of food, potable water, and health care.

TerreStar-1

Following TerreStar's file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a movement had been formed by the NGO A Human Right to purchase TerreStar-1 and to use it to provide free basic Internet access to developing countries.


Palestina, Peru

A documentary featuring Palestina, Peru, has been created under the title Web, in cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation and A Human Right.


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Jill Stein

And that’s true, for the environmental movement, the student movement, the antiwar movement, health-care-as-a-human-right movement—you put us all together, we have the potential for a Tahrir Square type event, and to turn the White House into a Green House in November.

Right to Internet access

High profile criticism of the notion that access to the Internet should be a human right comes from Vint Cerf who is often dubbed the “father of the Internet.”