UNESCO, and press freedom organizations including Intermedia Pakistan, International Media Support, and the Open Society Foundations is organizing an international conference on the safety and security of journalists in Islamabad from 6 to 7 March.

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Its launch was the culmination of a conference on 6-7 March, hosted by Intermedia Pakistan with support of International Media Support (IMS), Open Society Foundations (OSF) and UNESCO, and attended by many local stakeholders, including members of parliament.

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The adverse WTO ruling offers the U.S an excellent opportunity to demonstrate simultaneously its commitment to the free trade principles of the international trading system, and its belief in the values of a free and open society.

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Although the Chinese have been beneficiaries of an open international economic order, they could end up undermining it simply because, as an autocratic society, their priority is to preserve the state's control of wealth and the power that it brings.

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