World News from OneWorld UK

02.03.2009 An urgent redesign of the world’s financial systems and a major shift to a more “inclusive” banking system through microcredit and “social business” was called for by Nobel Prize winner and Grameen Bank founder Professor Muhammad Yunus in London yesterday.

16.02.2009 Christian Aid is urging supporters to recruit their local MPs in a bid to bring tax justice to developing countries.

16.02.2009 Mobile phone manufacturers must audit their supply chains in order to exclude minerals financing the armed conflict and atrocities in eastern Congo, say activists as the Mobile World Congress opens in Barcelona.

15.02.2009 Scientists have documented evidence of cold water-loving species shifting towards both poles to escape rising ocean temperatures, according to explorers conducting a census of marine life.

07.02.2009 Protecting civilians must be a top priority of the joint Congolese and Rwandan military operation in eastern Congo, a coalition of 100 humanitarian and human rights organisations said as a top UN official arrived in Goma, the North Kivu capital.

04.02.2009 A tribe of 300 Amazon nomads is fleeing from bulldozers as their last forest is rapidly destroyed, according to an organisation supporting tribal peoples.

09.12.2008 The food and financial crises have wiped out nearly 20 years of progress on reducing hunger, warns a leading development group, reacting to new UN figures show the number of hungry has risen to 963 million.
+ Number of hungry people rises to 963 million

25.11.2008 A San Francisco jury begins deliberations today in a precedent-setting civil case that seeks to hold oil giant Chevron liable in the US for human rights abuses in Nigeria.
+ OneWorld's Nigeria Guide

06.10.2008 Forced displacement is on the increase around the world, with the number of refugees now topping 11.4 million and internally displaced people at 26 million, says the head of the UN refugee agency.

24.09.2008 Refugees who have been disabled by the war in northern Uganda are confronting food shortages and inaccessible public services in government-run camps, as well as being under growing pressure to return home, even though they lack the resources to resume a normal life.