World News from OneWorld UK

24.09.2008 Ten years since its establishment - despite major human rights crises in Darfur, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe - the landmark African court of human rights has yet to hear a single case, says a new report.

23.09.2008 The UN Children's Fund has welcomed the British government's decision to grant children seeking asylum, migrant children and those who have been trafficked into the UK the same rights as British children, including their right to education, health care and social services.

06.08.2008 Almost half the world 634 kinds of primates are in danger of extinction, according to the first comprehensive review in five years.

09.07.2008 The G8 summit has failed and the meeting's final declaration is a combination of window dressing, wishy-washy exuberance and vague ambiguities, says a development group.

01.07.2008 A new project is being launched to support conflict survivors in Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.

24.06.2008 European governments are dodging the truth about the US practice of kidnapping and illegally sending terrorism suspects for interrogation in countries with a reputation for torture, a leading rights group says in a new report.

24.06.2008 The argument that increasing whale populations are behind declining fish stocks is completely without scientific foundation, leading researchers and conservation organisations said as a meeting of the International Whaling got underway.
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23.05.2008 As a deadly new strain of Black Stem Rust devastates wheat harvests across Africa and Arabia, and threatens the staple food supply of a billion people from Egypt to Pakistan, the areas where potentially crop and life-saving remnant wild wheat relatives grow are only minimally protected.

31.01.2007 Children caught up in crises around the world are being forced to wait for life-saving emergency relief as the introduction of the UN’s emergency fund has created an extra hurdle for aid agencies striving to reach those most in need.

31.01.2007 The Sri Lankan government should allow newsprint and ink to be transported into Jaffna to enable the city’s publications to function, two freedom of expression groups have urged.