In assessing cyber crime legislation, policy makers and gender and development advocates must carefully consider the implications for privacy and information security. As ICT blur the lines between personal and public, the nature of the internet and cyber crime - including how they affect human rights and social justice - must be questioned.
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According to the Graz University of Technology research, Google as search engine is dominating and that on its own is dangerous, "but could possibly be accepted as 'there is no real wayout', although this is not true, either. However, in conjunction with the fact that Google is operating many other services, and probably silently cooperating with still further players, this is unacceptable".
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Gangs and corrupt officials in Latin America. Tyrants in the Middle East and Asia. Wars in Africa. Death threats and court cases in Europe and Central Asia. These are the most serious threats to free expression, says the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) in its half-year press freedom review. The report is a grim picture of the attacks, imprisonment and violence faced by journalists in many countries.
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The Beyond Tunis publication series was launched by Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) to highlight efforts to advance the use and application of Knowledge and ICT for Development after the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis in 2005. Its first two editions, popularly known as 'Flightplan 1.0' and 'Flightplan 1.5', collated inputs from more than 40 authors - practitioners and thinkers from across the globe. The latest issue, Beyond Tunis 2.0: Horizon, was published as a companion to the GKP-organized Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3), held in Kuala Lumpur in December 2007.
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In 2007 the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted a set of 45 ground-breaking proposals on how WIPO should reorient its operations to foster economic and social development within its 182 Member States. The Development Agenda proposals are intended to require WIPO to take a broader approach to promoting creativity and innovation, instead of focusing exclusively on maximizing intellectual property rights. Several ngos have submitted proposals to WIPO in the framework of a series of meetings on intellectual property rights.
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April Howard and Benjamin Dangl investigate the Paraguayan city Ciudad del Este, known in the American press as a "Jungle Hub for World's Outlaws", and a "hotbed""teeming with Islamic extremists and their sympathizers". Despite a lack of evidence, Washington and the media are asserting links to terrorism in the Tri-Border Area to advance their agenda in a region that is increasingly shifting to the left.
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In 2005, a group of scholars and activists, mostly from the global South, created the Copy/South Research Group to analyse, criticise, and confront the oppressive nature of current global copyright regimes, such as those defended by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and similar ones around the globe.
World Peace and Security
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- Thu Aug 14 2008
Media criticise Gaza death ruling
Reuters news agency says the Israeli army has made reporting in Gaza "almost impossible" after it cleared a tank crew that killed one of its cameramen.
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BBC News
Human Rights
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- Wed Aug 13 2008
Ransacking of longtime women's news agency
The devastation and disorder of a burglary and violent vandalism at the women’s news agency CIMAC (Women’s Communication & Information) offices in Mexico City last weekend suggest that it was more than a common break-in.
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AWID
