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'My non-stick frying pan killed my budgie!!'
The Free Range Network study Toxic shock! looks at the effects of per-fluoro-chemicals (PFCs).
From FRAW’s Free Range Bulletin 03/2003:
This is no joke. It’s deadly serious to budgies at least, and perhaps in the longer term
humans too.
There are a group of chemicals, per-fluoro-chemicals, that are found in many products, and increasingly in human tissues. In the USA, where Teflon® is…
Communication at War, Communication for Peace'.
At a conference in the World Forum on Communication Rights, a parallel forum to the
official World Summit on the Information Society, speakers from the United
States, Colombia, and a Kenyan technologist working in Rwanda took up this theme.
'Communication at War, Communication for Peace'.
At a conference in the World Forum on Communication Rights, a parallel forum to the
official World Summit on the Information Society, speakers from the United
States, Colombia, and a Kenyan technologist working in Rwanda took up this theme.
Jinbonet launches online guide for Human Rights in the Information Society.
Korean Progressive Network 'Jinbonet' launched an online Guide to Human rights in the Information society on December 10th, 2003, the 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Reporters Without Borders launches pirate radio in protest.
Reporters Without Borders will broadcast from Geneva on the 9-10 December to coincide with the start of the World Summit on the Information Society, which it has been banned from attending.
The Rastafarian poet Benjamin Zephaniah will not accept an OBE from the Queen.
He talks about his reasons in The Guardian , which, by doing so, is going against the convention that if one doesn't accept, one does so privately.
WWF are criticised for LaFarge sponsorship by leading Scottish NGOs.
This follows a recent court action undertaken by LaFarge to appeal the decision not to allow their plans for a 'super quarry' in Scotland.