World News from OneWorld UK

05.09.2008 Aid has to be increased by $18 billion a year between now and 2010 if donors are to meet their Millennium Development Goal pledges, according to a UN report launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
+ UN report highlights lack of access to essential medicines

05.09.2008 The six-month prison sentences imposed on four Iranian cyber-feminists for "publishing information against the government" are an outrage, says a media freedom group.

04.09.2008 Demands by developing countries and campaigners for immediate improvements to make aid work better for the poor have been blocked at an international meeting by the US, Japan and the World Bank, according to an international development charity.
+ International aid transparency initiative launched
+ UK plan for ending abuse of aid
+ Action Needed So Aid Works Better for the Poor, Zoellick Says

04.09.2008 New advice to consumers on fish sustainability - including fish to "eat" and "avoid" - has been issued by the Marine Conservation Society, which warns that inadequate labelling will continue to lead to confusion among shoppers.

04.09.2008 A global initiative to increase the effectiveness of aid by making it easier for people in recipient countries to track how the money is spent has been unveiled by the British government.

04.09.2008 Major food and soft drink companies are "using a persuasive array of techniques" to market unhealthy products to children in the Asia-Pacific region, claims a new report.

04.09.2008 Efforts to tackle the floods in north-east India that have affected over 2.7 million people must be increased urgently to avert a secondary disaster due to disease, an international agency has warned.

03.09.2008 Making more long-term aid commitments has been a sticking point for the US and Japan at a crucial global summit in Ghana on how aid works, according to an international development agency.
+ Poor are ignored in making aid work
+ How do we measure up?

03.09.2008 The Observer has admitted that a story accusing Survival of releasing hoax photos of uncontacted Indians was "inaccurate, misleading [and] distorted".

02.09.2008 Concern over reports of women being abused in flood relief camps in the Indian state of Bihar has been voiced by an international aid charity, as another warned that Children living on highways to escape floods are being killed by traffic.