13/02/2004   Pressure is growing to stop Shell developing an area off the coast of Russia.

The remote island of Sakhalin is part of the route of the grey whale. Fears are that development will lead to renewed depletion of the grey whale population, numbers of which stand currently at around 100.

 13/02/2004   Internet in China - Amnesty International publish an update.
06/02/2004   Clean Up Your Computer

Catholic aid agency Cafod reports on working conditions on computer assembly lines in the third world. These can be appallingly low.
06/02/2004   The Internet by motorbike

In Cambodia, WiFi-equipped motorcyclists pull up to schools, download all the email, drive to the next village, and dump off copies of locally-destined mail, picking up their outgoing mail and delivering it to the next town.

 06/02/2004   Software costs more than a year's salary for many Africans

Without free and open source software (see our front page highlight) – “the broad socio-economic changes long promised by ICT would largely be limited to a tiny elite.”

 06/02/2004   Privacy International report on transfer of PNR data to USA

Report discloses covert EU strategy to establish regime of global travel surveillance. Negotiations by the European Commission described as "systematic deception and subterfuge".
06/02/2004   Lawyers attack terror trial plans.

David Blunkett is considering non-jury trials, to happen in secret. These have been condemned by a group of leading barristers.

 30/01/2004   Chea Vichea, president of the Cambodian Free Trade Union of Workers, was fatally shot.

ABC news reports on the latest in a series of 'suspected political killings of critics of the ruling party.'

 30/01/2004   Everyone got it wrong about Iraq.'

The online publication Spiked examines the claim that 'Saddam Hussein's Iraq had weapons so deadly that only all-out war could neuter their threat to mankind'.