>Subject: Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP PT FR [October 3rd 2005]
>Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 10:16:05 +0100
>From: "Myriam Horngren" <mh@wacc.org.uk>
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>Women's human rights: violence against women, pornography and ICT
>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
>Numbers (ICANN) approval of .xxx as a global top
>level domain for sexually explicit materials in
>the internet received murmurs of protest from
>several governments, particularly from Brazil and the United States.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/955
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>NEWSROOM/WSIS PHASE 2/ SPECIAL PREPCOM
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>WSIS Prepcom 3 closes in disarray
>30 September 2005.
>The last preparatory conference, less than 60
>days before the Tunis summit, ended tonight at
>21:00 without an agreement. The open questions
>will have to be dealt with in the time before
>Tunis - and basically without civil society participation.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/956
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>Prepcom 3: Futuro dudoso para sociedad civil
>Por Gustavo Capdevila
>GINEBRA, 20 sep (IPS) - Antes de finalizar la
>segunda fase de la Cumbre Mundial sobre la
>Sociedad de la Información en noviembre en
>Túnez, la sociedad civil sabrá el papel a
>cumplir en este proceso para abatir la brecha
>digital y democratizar las comunicaciones. Pero
>activistas ven nubarrones en el horizonte.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/954
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>Statement on the contribution for document WSIS-II/PC-3/DT/10 (Chapter
>Submitted by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
>On behalf of the Informal Coalition on Financing ICTD (...)
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/953
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>Prepcom 3: China Blocks Open Discussion at WSIS with Procedural Maneuvering
>September 20, 2005
>The International Federation for Human Rights
>(FIDH) and its member organization, Human Rights
>in China (HRIC), denounce the decision of the
>World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), a
>process that claims to include the broadest
>possible participation, to block open discussion
>on supporting independent NGO voices.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/951
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>NEWSROOM/WSIS [TUNISIA AND COMMUNICATION RIGHTS]
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>Ligue Tunisienne pour la défense des Droits de
>l'Homme: Conférence de presse à Genève
>Tunis le, 29 septembre 2005
>A l'occasion du Prepcom3 du Sommet Mondial de la
>Société d'Information (SMSI), une conférence de
>presse autour de la liberté de presse en Tunisie
>s'est tenue, lundi 26 septembre 2005 au Club de la presse à Genève.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/947
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>U.N. Defends Having Tech Summit in Tunisia
>By NICK WADHAMS
>Associated Press Writer
>September 28, 2005, 9:20 PM EDT (...)
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/946
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>NGOs Complain of Summit Host Tunisia's Rights Record Gustavo Capdevila
>GENEVA, Sep 28 (IPS) - One of the biggest clouds
>looming over the World Summit on the Information
>Society (WSIS) is the human rights record of
>Tunisia, which will host the second phase of the
>Summit, scheduled for Nov. 16-18.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/952
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>Crédibilité des Nations Unies remise en question alors que le SMSI approche
>Un communiqué de presse de l'IFEX-TMG
>26 Septembre 2005 (...)
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/949
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>Credibility of the UN in doubt as WSIS looms
>Freedom of expression experts question
>credibility of UN World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia.
>26 September 2005, IFEX-TMG press release. (...)
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/950
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>Journalist Hamadi Jebali wages second hunger strike in five months
>Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York
>23 September 2005
>The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply
>concerned about the health of imprisoned
>Tunisian journalist Hamadi Jebali, who has been
>on a hunger strike for eight days to protest 14
>years of unjust imprisonment. CPJ today called for his immediate release.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/948
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