Visitors also had the opportunity to call personally for the release of non-violent political prisoners. The fact that the EXPO organisers removed from the presentation overnight a contribution on torture in Turkey helped Amnesty International achieve additional public awareness of the problem. Nevertheless, against the heavyweight presence by which industry dominated the Theme Park and offered its options for solutions, the few presentations of the NGOs remained little more than fig leaves. The Projects Around the World programme was something new in the history of world exhibitions. The themes of the selected international projects range from questions of sustainable forest management and future energy supply to social issues and urban and rural development.
Developmental themes are a special focal point.
In particular, the programme is to include appropriately in the world exhibition both the capability and the problems of the developing countries in order to promote the partner-like dialogue of the groups of this One World. As feared by critics from the beginning, not all theme sectors were given equal coverage. The Projects Around the World could seen at various locations in the EXPO grounds, such as in the country pavilions, in the Global House and in the Theme Park. The rest were based in countries around the world, inaccessible to most EXPO visitors. The EXPO organisers called the worldwide projects 'The Network of Good Ideas'.