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World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council
“Libraries – A voyage of discovery”
August 14th – 18th 2005, Oslo, Norway
IFLA
and a related story from sometimes LISNews contributor Walter Skold via Worldnet Daily On the eve of the world’s largest library conference, a group of prominent dissidents from the former Soviet bloc have issued a stinging rebuke to Fidel Castro for jailing independent librarians and have called on the International Federation of Library Associations, or IFLA, to challenge Cuba over its human rights violations.
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“We know what it is like to live in a society where freedom is repressed in the name of democracy and national sovereignty, and where the voicing of dissent is banned in the name of safeguarding freedom of expression,” says a letter released yesterday by the Czech-based People In Need Foundation.
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