The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN says it remains "deeply concerned" for the safety of journalist Hassan Bility in the light of the latest failure to have him brought before a court.

Amnesty International expressed concern last Wednesday at "increasing attacks on freedom of expression" in The Gambia following the arrest of three journalists.

Amnesty International expressed concern last Wednesday at "increasing attacks on freedom of expression" in The Gambia following the arrest of three journalists.

Ruling party militants attempted to push a family of white farmers off their property Wednesday in the most serious bid to force defiant farmers to honor a government eviction order, farmer representatives said.

OneWorld and Eurodad have launched a new DebtChannel.org Discussion Forum: "From Monterrey to Johannesburg". This online event will discuss issues such as sustainable development strategies, aid and debt, and the way the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development(WSSD) should tackle them.

A one-week course on infectious disease modelling will be held in Pretoria between 2-6 September. Delegates will be introduced to the fundamental concepts, principles and theories that are used to develop models of infectious diseases in human populations, and there will be a specific focus on the application of these methods to the design and evaluation of vaccination programmes.

Protesters seeking to disrupt the World Summit on Sustainable Development may decide to make their mark electronically. SA has not yet experienced the severity of cyber attacks suffered by some foreign firms. But the summit will put local companies in the firing line from protesters using hackers to cause chaos.

"Despite Algeria's troubled political situation, it is potentially a big connectivity market. Recently it has begun to open itself up to competition and although progress is slow, significant steps forward have been made."

This article from Declan McCullough challenges programmers to use their skills and not their voices if they want to protest human rights violations.

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and Vincent Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol upon which the internet functions, share their new visions for networked communications.

The U.N. Security Council must stand behind its intention of delivering justice to victims of both sides in the conflict that devastated Rwanda in 1994, Human Rights Watch says.

The International Federation of Journalists, the world's largest journalists' organisation, has called on Ugandan rebels to lift the death threat issued against a Belgian journalist who is reporting on the plight of child soldiers.

The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN has condemned the custodial sentence handed down to Christopher Mwoki Kyandi on 24 July on charges of "publishing false news". The editor of the scandal magazine The Truth was given a nine-month prison sentence on the basis of a sex-related article published in early July which caused a furore in the capital Nairobi.

Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has called for the release of journalist Pa Ousman Darboe, who has been held since 2 August following an article in the Banjul biweekly The Independent reporting that the vice-president had remarried. The article referred to the legal problems of the vice-president’s late husband.

A state of alert imposed in Niger on Monday could threaten freedom of expression, according to Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), which has urged President Mamadou Tandja to repeal the decree through which he instituted the measure.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has confirmed that Simret Seyoum of the banned private weekly Setit has been in detention since early January 2002.

OneWorld and Eurodad have launched a new DebtChannel.org Discussion Forum: "From Monterrey to Johannesburg". This online event will discuss issues such as sustainable development strategies, aid and debt, and the way the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development Summit (WSSD) should tackle them.

The World Wide Web Consortium, which specifies the standards for HTML, amongst other things, has just released the working draft of XHTML 2.0. An overview is available from the web site featured below.

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