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Back in 2010, Techdirt reported on a fairly remarkable comment from the US ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Betty E. King, who said at a p...

It was expected that the Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, would raise the issue of NSA spying when she addressed the opening sessio...

As you may recall , terrorism was one of the primary justifications for bringing in the disproportionate Draft Communications Data Bill: ...

A good one , too : After two days of deliberations, the United Nations officials at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Poznan,...

OK, I admit it: I've been a teensy bit negative about WIPO in the past. In part, this was because I thought there was precious little h...

The ever-alert Erwin has spotted another push for ODF, this time from the UN's International Open Source Network , and aimed Asia-ward...

Here's a useful round-up of free software projects at the United Nations - there's more than you might think. Pity that this secti...

The UN is such a huge, amorphous organisation that it is no suprise that there are bits of it that rarely make it into the limelight. A cas...