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31.07.2007 GlaxoSmithKline provides research funding to doctors who write favorable opinions of depression drugs for children, despite evidence from clinical trials that the medication can cause anger and even suicide.
From: CorpWatch

31.07.2007 U.S. lawmakers missed an opportunity for "concrete meaningful reform" in the latest farm bill, said a U.S. based non-profit Monday, adding that the legislation reaffirms the status quo, which benefits large corporations at the expense of rural communities.

31.07.2007 Arms control advocates expressed "grave concerns" this weekend about U.S. concessions to India on key non-proliferation provisions.

31.07.2007 In response to the story of a young Egyptian girl who was raped and gave birth to a child, bloggers from the Middle East and United States share their opinions on rape and veiling, civil rights in Palestine, and more.

31.07.2007 The new special blend of biofuel could deliver a fleet-wide cut of up to 5220 tonnes CO2 per year.
From: Radio Taxis

30.07.2007 As Uganda starts negotiating with the Democratic Republic of Congo about reparations for plundering its neighbour’s resources and committing atrocities there between 1996 and 2001, a senior official in Kampala has suggested the talks may end with no payment being made. Henry Wasswa reports.
From: Institute for War and Peace Reporting

30.07.2007 Is it possible to speak mostly Spanish and still assimilate into U.S. culture? Do you have to like hamburgers more than tacos? Activists and academics weigh in on what assimilation is, and whether U.S. Latinos have achieved it.
From: New America Media

30.07.2007 Thirteen years after the cease-fire agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, villagers still living along the Azerbaijani frontline remain trapped in a state of neither peace nor war.

30.07.2007 The violence in Iraq is overshadowing a humanitarian crisis, with eight million Iraqis - nearly one in three - in need of emergency aid, says a report released today.

30.07.2007 Ground-level ozone from pollution could be a much more important driver of climate change than scientists had previously predicted, shows a new study.
From: BBC

29.07.2007 Ranglai Mro, a minority community leader from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, has been sentenced to 17 years in jail after protesting against the eviction of his people from their land to make way for an army training centre.

29.07.2007 Two UN agencies have issued a $129 million joint appeal aimed at getting tens of thousands of uprooted Iraqi children back in school.

29.07.2007 Disturbing new images of tiger carcasses piled up in cold storage at one of China’s largest “tiger farms” raise questions about enforcement of tiger trade bans in effect in China and internationally.

29.07.2007 Patio heaters are latest global warming disaster, claims Carbon-info.org's chairman Flemming Bermann.
From: Carbon-info.org

29.07.2007 Parts of Sri Lanka have motored ahead with reconstruction efforts in the 30 months since the 2004 tsunami struck the divided island nation; others areas have lagged woefully behind.

29.07.2007 'How much longer can we ignore this catastrophe and how will climate change affect the work of civil society?' asks Kumi Naidoo, CIVICUS Secretary-General?

27.07.2007 A new and worse civil war in Sudan is possible unless the international community presses for a fundamental shift in the way the country is governed, says the International Crisis Group.
From: International Crisis Group

27.07.2007 Zimbabwean women are suffering increasing repression as they mobilize to confront the government in the face of a spiraling economic and social rights crisis in their country, according to a new report from Amnesty International.

27.07.2007 Although there is disagreement over how Puerto Rico should be governed -- as a U.S. territory, U.S. state, or independent nation -- there is consensus that Puerto Ricans themselves must play a major role in deciding the island's fate.

27.07.2007 Ahead of Thursday's conference in Jordan on Iraqi refugees, 36 international humanitarian organizations have urged governments to dramatically increase the amount of aid they give to countries hosting Iraqi refugees.