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31.01.2007 A new, fairer U.S. trade policy would aim to give more people the opportunity to enjoy the benefits from world trade. Policy Innovations editor Devin Stewart explains how.

31.01.2007 Children caught up in crises around the world are being forced to wait for life-saving emergency relief as the introduction of the UN’s emergency fund has created an extra hurdle for aid agencies striving to reach those most in need, warns a top aid group.

31.01.2007 The Sri Lankan government should allow newsprint and ink to be transported into Tamil-controlled Jaffna to enable the city’s publications to function, two freedom of expression groups have urged.

31.01.2007 Campaigners are to protest outside of the French embassy in London on Friday to urge the government to stop representatives of the Zimbabwean government attending a forthcoming Franco-African summit.
From: Amicus

30.01.2007 The House has voted to raise the nation's minimum wage for the first time in 10 years, but the Senate is dragging its feet, says a Philadelphia-based social justice group rallying supporters to pressure their senators.

30.01.2007 William Drayton, the man who coined the term "social entrepreneur," tells the Times of India why the citizen sector is coming into its own globally, and how that will change the world forever.

30.01.2007 While the debate about the right to abortion continues to rage in the U.S., a number of countries are recognizing that access to safe abortion can save women's lives, says a population advocacy group.

30.01.2007 Baroness Miller hopes to recover some of the freedoms taken away from the British people through recent legislation. She talks to Padraig Reidy.

30.01.2007 Dr. Rashad Zidan, and the women of Iraq, have been working tirelessly to hold families together through the terrors of war. Nominated by the U.S.-based women's activist group CodePink, OneWorlders across the planet have voted them the People of 2006.

30.01.2007 African leaders yesterday picked Ghana as the new chair of the African Union, turning down Sudan's bid because of the government's failure to end the conflict in Darfur.

30.01.2007 The British MP who founded the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group announced today that he will not seek re-election, in order to concentrate on campaigning for a new international agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.

29.01.2007 Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis must drop its controversial court case against India, which begins in Chennai today, Oxfam urged. The case challenges India's patent law designed to promote cheaper generic medicines for poor patients.

29.01.2007 The Fairtrade Fortnight, February 26–March 11, will try to exceed last year's score of more than 10,000 events throughout the UK--from fashion shows and football matches to concerts and exhibitions, with tastings of Fairtrade products in churches, mosques, synagogues, schools, universities, supermarkets, and workplaces.

29.01.2007 Unless action is taken on Darfur at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa this week it will be too late, aid agencies warned.

29.01.2007 Celebrating Guineans took to the streets of Conakry on Saturday night after the ending of an 18-day nationwide general strike that paralyzed business and administrative activities.

29.01.2007 The political will exists to combat China's pollution, but collusion between business and local governments remains a major obstacle. Jianqiang Liu asks: who is really harming the country's interests?

26.01.2007 The World Social Forum's 50,000 participants prepared to return home Friday as Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai urged them to keep plugging away against the world's injustices.

26.01.2007 Colombia has resumed spraying to destroy coca plants allegedly grown in the region that borders Ecuador. But the U.S.-funded operation seems to be causing a lot of collateral damage.

26.01.2007 A U.S. court martial has refused to hear an officer's argument that the war in Iraq is illegal. Last weekend, more than 600 U.S. citizens joined a distinguished tribunal panel to hear the testimony the military court wouldn't.

26.01.2007 Irene Khan, Amnesty International’s secretary general, is blogging from the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos. Read it here.