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October 2009
Reports | Global reports | HDR 2009 | Human Development Reports (HDR) | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Human development is about putting people at the centre of development. It is about people realizing their potential, increasing their choices and enjoying the freedom to lead lives they value. Since 1990, annual Human Development Reports have explored challenges including poverty, gender, democracy, human rights, cultural liberty, globalization, water scarcity and climate change.
September 2009
August 2009
FT.com / UK - French minister calls for full ban on burka
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July 2009
Amazon recalls (and embodies) Orwell's '1984' | Beyond Binary - CNET News
The publisher is certainly within its rights to stop selling the e-book and certainly Amazon needs to honor those wishes. But its hard to understand by what rights the retailer can remove the book from those who have already purchased one of the titles.
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OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit: Moving the Discussion Forward - Articles
GeoREL is now an ISO standard. The most visible efforts of the working group involved a pilot for ORCHESTRA, an effort to outline some possible licenses. The group extended the existing Creative Commons licenses with a few extra licenses to cover non-disclosure, commercial use and emergency use.
June 2009
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March 2009
just hear it | playable music search
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Tactical Tech is an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work. We provide advocates with guides, tools, training and consultancy to help them develop the skills and tactics they need to increase the impact of their campaigning.
February 2009
What Is Copyright? — Creative Freedom Foundation (creativefreedom.org.nz)
What Is Copyright?
Copyright is a legal concept giving the creator of an original artistic work rights over their work for a limited time.
Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline pledges cheap medicine for world's poor | Business | The Guardian
Put any chemicals or processes over which it has intellectual property rights that are relevant to finding drugs for neglected diseases into a "patent pool", so they can be explored by other researchers.
January 2009
3rd DATA PROTECTION DAY 28 JANUARY 2009
The aim of the Data Protection Day is to give European citizens the chance to understand what personal data is collected and processed about them and why, and what their rights are with respect to this processing.
Amnesty International : Human rights
December 2008
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YouTube - "Some Rights Reserved"
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Why Don't We Hang Pirates Anymore? - WSJ.com
Then there is the problem of what to do with captured pirates. No international body similar to the old Admiralty Courts is currently empowered to try pirates and imprison them. The British foreign office recently produced a legal opinion warning Royal Navy ships not to take pirates captive, lest they seek asylum in the U.K. or otherwise face repatriation in jurisdictions where they might be dealt with harshly, in violation of the British Human Rights Act.
