UK News from OneWorld UK

08.03.2004 One in three food products UK supermarket shelves are directly contributing to the destruction of the world's rainforests, a new report by Friends of the Earth reveals today.

08.03.2004 Fourteen Greenpeace activists facing criminal charges over anti-war action have asked Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith to appear as a witness in their court case this week following his declaration that he would stand up in court to defend his advice to go to war in Iraq.

05.03.2004 A powerful committee of MPs have slammed the UK government’s plans to allow GM crops to be commercially grown. The government is expected to give qualified approval for GM maize next week.

05.03.2004 UK pupils will be inviting their MPs back to school on 23 April to ask them to help generate the money required to get the world’s children into school. The event is timed to coincide with the World Bank Meeting in Washington on 24 and 25 April, where finance ministers from across the world will meet to discuss aid for basic education.

05.03.2004 The new Female Genital Mutilation Act, recently passed in the UK, could imprison parents for up to 14 years if they take their daughters abroad to be circumcised.

04.03.2004 UK consumers are still exposed to a cocktail of pesticide residues in the food they eat according to new figures released by the Pesticide Safety Directorate.

04.03.2004 The government has announced a fund of £12 million to help local authorities provide care and support for unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

03.03.2004 Leading UK retailer, Tesco PLC, has been closely linked to the sale of products from Japan’s controversial hunting of whales, dolphins and porpoises, the Environmental Investigation Agency and Greenpeace reveal.

03.03.2004 The UK government has announced plans to increase its financial assistance to Afghanistan – one of the poorest nations in the world – to at least £500 million over five years.

03.03.2004 Vast numbers of asylum seekers in Scotland are being left destitute, without accommodation or financial support, as a result of the government’s new immigration laws, says The Big Issue in Scotland.