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The Saturday after the 17th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning there will be a symposium on Strategies for International Humanitarian Organizations.

Shell has refused to publish the independent report it commissioned on its multimillion-pound community development programme in Nigeria, despite denying that the document is secret. Pressure on the oil giant was increased yesterday when Glenys Kinnock, the MEP and patron of the Ogoni Foundation, a human rights group, wrote to Shell demanding that it publish the independent report.

According to the American Association of Fundraising Counsel Trust for Philanthropy's new "Giving USA" estimates, U.S. charitable contributions in 2000 totaled $203.45 billion, an increase of 6.6 percent over the previous year.
Charitable contributions represented 2 percent of gross domestic product in 2000, a slight drop from the 28-year high of 2.1 percent achieved in 1999 and the same percentage as recorded in 1998.