Human Rights:
The Importance of Social Networks

Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one's opinions and ideas using one's body and property to anyone who is willing to receive them.

The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously, but includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.

Using social media we have freedom of speech and we speak or voice trough a computer.

According to a 2011 report published by Nielson, Americans spend nearly a quarter of their online time on social networks and blogs.

Social Networking helps people out there trying to let know to the world the irregularities of the government or bad people out there trying to break the law.

With Facebook or twitter or any web page they can make justice or be helped just with a click, so social networking it’s really important in life.

“I had no words to add, I just sat down for some minutes. I felt she wanted to spare me from listening, listening to horrors that many others preferred untold” wrote Rosebell Kagumire on her blog.

“The Internet Freedom Fellows programme was launched last May to highlight the innovative use of the Internet in promoting and defending human rights,” said Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, U.S. Representative to the UN Human Rights Council.

Around the world people are using new media in the call for freedom, transparency and greater self- determination. We must always remember that it is not the tools, but the courageous people who use them, who are the human voice of freedom.