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07.11.2009 A proposed Ugandan law on HIV/AIDS promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic and would violate human rights, a group of more than 50 Ugandan and international organisations and individuals says in a new report.

06.11.2009 Ways of using DNA barcoding on issues ranging from protecting health to prosecuting smugglers of bushmeat, endangered birds and plants are to be discussed at an international meeting in Mexico.

06.11.2009 Campaigners have appealed to the UN to intervene to halt the evictions of thousands of families from their ancestral home in a Kenyan forest.

05.11.2009 British chancellor Alistair Darling and finance ministers from the world’s leading economies are accused of sticking to policies which threaten higher unemployment and climate chaos.

05.11.2009 Countries meeting in Brazil this week should agree a temporary fishing ban for the beleaguered Atlantic bluefin tuna, as an essential measure to avoid imminent stock collapse, says an international environmental group.

05.11.2009 A retreat from international funding commitments for AIDS threatens to undermine the dramatic gains made in reducing AIDS-related illness and death in recent years, according to a new report.

05.11.2009 Major dams need not spell disaster for the communities they displace, according to research published today that spells out the need for benefits to be shared over decades and not just a few years.

04.11.2009 Britain's leading cheap fashion retailer, Primark, today faced accusations of cashing in on the recession by exploiting overseas workers producing its clothes.

03.11.2009 Certifying palm oil is not a solution to the environmental damage and human rights violations caused by oil palm plantations, an international environmental group said at a meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in Malaysia.

03.11.2009 Congolese armed forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have killed hundreds of civilians and committed widespread rape in the past three months in a military operation backed by the United Nations, according to an international rights group.+ UN peacekeeping chief calls for probe into killings by armed forces