Those behind it have published a declaration, explaining their motivations.
LONG, long ago in the history of the Internet way back in February 1996 John Perry Barlow, an Internet activist, published a "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace".
She has published a declaration in which she blames Stalin equally with Hitler for causing the 1939-45 war, by agreeing secretly to divide Europe.
Last week, the scientific magazine Nature published a declaration signed by 5,000 scientists from around the world who described the link between H.I.V. and AIDS as "clear-cut, exhaustive and unambiguous".
In 1948, a group of influential Finnish researchers published a declaration against the destructive impacts of selective logging on Finland's forests.
Early this year, the German Science Council published a declaration recommending that permanent positions for researchers with third-party funding should be created, with the condition that if the third-party money dries up, the individual can be legally given notice.
This geographical limitation dates from the time when Turkey adopted the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees in 1961, while having published a declaration that it would admit only aliens coming from Europe due to the geographical region in which Turkey is located.
In 1906, Lee published a Declaration of Principles, which said that PR work should be done in the open, should be accurate and cover topics of public interest.
In 1967, Croatian authors and linguists published a Declaration on the Status and Name of the Croatian Standard Language demanding greater autonomy for Croatian language.
Until now, ministers have had to publish a minimalist "declaration of interests".
