Potential health risks from farmed salmon could outweigh benefits.

9 January, 2004 - 01:00
The article in New Scientist reports that "Contamination by PCBs, dioxins and pesticides is on average 10 times higher in farmed salmon. The consequent health risks, such as a raised risk of cancer, could detract from the known health benefits of eating oily fish."
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Food Miles - facts to reflect on for the Christmas shop!

19 December, 2003 - 01:00
The Sustain report Food Miles - Still on the road to ruin? was published 5 years ago, an update to the first Food Miles report in 1994. 5 years on, it is interesting to look back on this report and see how relevant it still is.
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GreenNet members 'Piplinks' present Dirty Digger Awards

19 December, 2003 - 01:00
This small group of anti-mining campaigners presented awards to (dis)honour mining companies and executives whose showed a lack of commitment to sustainable development.
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'My non-stick frying pan killed my budgie!!'

19 December, 2003 - 01:00
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.
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Communication at War, Communication for Peace'.

15 December, 2003 - 01:00
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.
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'Communication at War, Communication for Peace'.

15 December, 2003 - 01:00
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.
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Jinbonet launches online guide for Human Rights in the Information Society.

11 December, 2003 - 01:00
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.
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Civil Society Summit Declaration Published.

10 December, 2003 - 01:00
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The APC WNSP is celebrating its 10th Anniversary at WSIS.

10 December, 2003 - 01:00
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Reporters Without Borders launches pirate radio in protest.

10 December, 2003 - 01:00
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.
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