[huridocs-tech] OneWorld launches world news syndication with

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OneWorld launches world news syndication with Yahoo! 
News

London, UK -- Nov 22, 2001 -- OneWorld, the leading 
online network for human
rights and sustainable development, today announced a 
daily news syndication
to the World News section of Yahoo!Ò News 
(http://news.yahoo.com), one of
the most popular news site on the Web.
The syndication agreement between OneWorld and Yahoo! 
Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a
leading global Internet communications, commerce and 
media company, is the
first daily non-profit world news syndication to a major 
corporate Web
portal. OneWorld news stories focus on events relating 
to human rights,
world poverty, social justice, the environment and 
sustainable development.

Peter Armstrong, Director of OneWorld International, 
said: “OneWorld has
always been a trusted source of information on global 
issues through our own
portal site www.oneworld.net.  Our agreement with Yahoo! 
ensures that a
wider audience worldwide will be able read news stories 
from OneWorld, with
our distinctive agenda - issues that matter most to 
people in this era of
globalisation. This syndication signals the fact that 
OneWorld has now
become an established global news brand, bringing 
together the voices and
concerns of people worldwide.”


“As a global company, Yahoo! continues to serve our 
world audience with news
that is of interest and relevance,” said Kourosh 
Karimkhany, senior
producer, Yahoo! News.  “This agreement with OneWorld 
helps Yahoo! News
expand its world news section and continues to grow our 
line-up of the Web’s
leading news sources.”


OneWorld has over 1000 media partners made up of 
non-government
organisations (NGOs) and international bodies. These 
range from United
Nations agencies to household names such as Amnesty 
International and
Greenpeace, as well as grassroots groups tackling 
poverty in developing
countries.


Visit OneWorld on Yahoo! News 
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/oneworld/?u.


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For more information and media enquiries contact Glen 
Tarman, OneWorld
publicity manager, Tel +44 (0)20 7735 2100 Email 
media@oneworld.net


OneWorld on Yahoo! News FAQs www.oneworld.net/yahoo/



For information on becoming a OneWorld partner 
organisation visit
www.oneworld.net/partners/joining/ or email 
partnership@oneworld.net.


Note:

OneWorld is a non-profit network that aims to harness 
the democratic
potential of the Internet to promote sustainable 
development, human rights
and an end to world poverty.

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