World News from OneWorld UK

24.05.2006 As top sportswear brands prepare to showcase their wares at the soccer World Cup in Germany, many sportswear workers in Asia are facing intimidation or dismissal for attempting to unionise, according to a report released today.

04.05.2006 A new Sudanese law restricting NGOs, as well as the effects of the pervasive presence of security and intelligence services, especially in Darfur, have been questioned by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
* Darfur 'near anarchy'

04.05.2006 The number of child labourers worldwide has fallen 11 per cent in four years.

26.04.2006 Sri Lanka's problems are far worse than "a mere escalation of violence" and only civil society groups, not politicians, can halt "the plunge into an abysmal crisis in all areas of life", says an Asia-wide rights group.

19.04.2006 As Brazil celebrates 'Indian Day' (19 April), Guarani Indians have warned that blood will flow if attempts are made to evict them from their land.

12.04.2006 The African Union has been urged to send a mediator to Banjul to assess whether the July AU summit there should be postponed because of the Gambian government's illegal detention of two newspaper executives.
* CPJ calls on Pakistani and US authorities to reveal all information about missing journalist

11.04.2006 UK Home Affairs Minister Charles Clarke suffered a setback in the High Court yesterday to his restrictions on non-EU nationals marrying, which he was told "infringed their right to family life".

07.03.2006 The criminal process that led to an eight-year sentence for Uzbek human rights defender Mukhtabar Tojibaeva violated international fair trial standards, an international rights group said today.

22.02.2006 Search and rescue operations in The Philippines in the wake of the mudslide give way to helping those displaced by the heavy rains in southern Leyte.

31.01.2006 Hundreds of severely mentally ill offenders in the US are mired within a healthcare system that is too slow to help and a justice system that is too quick to pass death sentences, a leading rights group said today.