Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Urgent human rights alert from the Women's Learning Partnership:
"Thirty-four of our colleagues and partners in the Iranian women's movement were arrested on Sunday, March 4 outside of Tehran's Revolutionary Court. They were staging a peaceful protest against the increasing government pressure on civil society activists and, in particular, the ...
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Web Braille offers access to thousands of electronic braille books on the Internet for the use of eligible braille readers by the Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS).On May 11th 2006 NLS made the following announcement on the Web Braille website:
"Because of technical ...
Posted in Books and Literary Things, Campaigns & Petitions, Library of Congress, News & info, USA, web braille | 6 Comments »