Amnesty International Launches New Technology-Driven Campaign Tool

Amnesty International

17 March 2011

Amnesty International Launches New Technology-Driven Campaign Tool

to Mobilize Action to Stop Harmful Gas Flaring in Nigeria

Eyes on Nigeria Website Offers Comprehensive View of Most Pressing Human Rights Challenges Facing Nigeria

Contact: Suzanne Trimel, 212-633-4150, 917-815-5964 (mobile), strimel@aisua.org

(San Francisco) – As more than 1,000 activists gathered in San Francisco Friday to mark 50 years of Amnesty International’s human rights activism, the organization’s U.S. section launched the latest project in its pioneering campaign employing satellite and geo-spatial technologies to expose and fight rights abuses.

Eyes on Nigeria (http://www.eyesonnigeria.org) is the newest project to emerge from the organization’s groundbreaking Science for Human Rights Program, which employs new monitoring tools and technologies to expose and visualize human rights abuses and situations in which human rights are at risk throughout Nigeria, including through active monitoring of harmful gas flaring in the Niger Delta region.