World News from OneWorld UK

30.01.2006 World energy supplies are adequate and the market and energy institutions will be able to absorb any shocks, according to energy chief executives speaking at the World Economic Forum yesterday.

30.01.2006 Hamas should announce publicly and immediately that it will not carry out attacks that target civilians or cause them indiscriminate harm, a leading rights organisation said today in a letter to the winners of the Palestinian parliamentary elections.

30.01.2006 A websiteproject launched today aims to preserve the endangered language and culture of one of the world's most marginalised and maligned populations, the Romani.

30.01.2006 in terms of democracy, Nepal is probably the worst of all 42 countries in which ActionAid works, according to the organisation's chief executive, Ramesh Singh, himself a Nepali.
* OneWorld UK Guide to Nepal

19.01.2006 Terrorism and bombing campaigns, lawlessness, kidnapping and targeted killings continue to wreak havoc on Iraqi civilians, with the rights of women, children, detainees and religious leaders grievously violated, according to a new United Nations report.

18.01.2006 African leaders must do more to protect human rights - with rape, torture and unlawful killings continuing in many parts of the continent and widespread impunity for violations, a leading rights group said ahead of an African Union meeting in Sudan.

09.12.2005 Kalahari Bushman Roy Sesana tells the world, ''My people love their land, and without it we are dying" as he receives one of this year's 'Alternative Nobel Prizes'.
* Sesana's speech in full

09.11.2005 The chances of a global trade deal that benefits poor countries are rapidly diminishing, said international aid agency following downbeat meetings in London and Brussels.

27.10.2005 The situation in Sudan's Darfur region is deteriorating sharply, warns the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, who says that a further calamity there could have "a devastating impact" on neighbouring countries.

10.10.2005 At least 18 supporters of the main opposition party in Tanzania's semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar were wounded on Sunday after police opened fire on a crowd.