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> Privacy International tackles biometric passport
> As the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) is making plans
> to make the air "safer", Privacy International and many other networks
> and organisations openly question the proposals of the ICAO, in
> particular the issue of using biometrics in passports and other
> ID-related travel documents. Show your support on this very pressing
> issue by signing up to the Privacy International letter to the ICAO.
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> Clean up your computer: Working conditions in the electronics sector
> CAFOD report, March 2004.
> Its products may embody the latest in high technology, but labour
> standards and conditions in computer manufacturing can be appallingly
> low. Many stages of computer production are carried out by low-skilled,
> low-paid workers - most of them women - in developing countries.
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> Winners of WACC's photographic competition: "Images of Communication"
> Chaired by Adrian Evans, the director of Panos Pictures, a panel judged
> more than 200 submissions to the competition from all over the world.
> Communication was illustrated in many moving ways and the quality of the
> submissions was high. The competition will be repeated again next year.
> Read more...
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> It's official - journalists have no right to a conscience
> By Mike Jempson, Bill Norris & Charlotte Barry MediaWise, March 2004.
> The Committee of Editors reviewing the UK newspaper industry's Code of
> Practice have decided not to include a conscience clause for working
> journalists, thus rejecting pleas from MediaWise, the National Union of
> Journalists, the Commons' Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport,
> and Daily Express journalists.
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> NEWSROOM/WSIS: http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/49
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> UN ICT New York meetings March 2004
> The community platform of the World Summit on the Information Society
> website has just published the final updates on the meetigns that took
> place last week in New York, focusing specifically on Internet
> governance, as called for in the WSIS Plan of Action.
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> WSIS phase II: Tunisia meeting showed some directions
> The structure as well as the struggles for the second phase of the WSIS
> summit process are slowy becoming clearer. One thing is clear: It will
> be more complex than the first round, as it has to deal with many more
> loose ends. WSIS 2003 only had to deliver two pieces of paper (the
> declaration of principles and the action plan). This left a lot of time
> for endless discussions, arm-twisting on wording, sorting out friends or
> foes in different arenas, and for civil society to start playing inside
> the official UN process. Now, the negotiators from Geneva will meet the
> real world. And as conflicts remain, the actors are positioning
> themselves for the second round.
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> Was WSIS worth it?
> Anriette Esterhuysen, APC, March 2004
> Was WSIS worth it? The general verdict on the recent United Nations
> World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in December 2003 was
> a thumbs-down. The Summit outcomes were limited after an arduous and
> expensive process. However, argues Anriette Esterhuysen, APC executive
> director, from the perspective of many civil society organisations that
> participated actively, the WSIS has created a new opportunity for
> solidarity across ideological, sectoral and geographical divides.
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