Overseas news archive
October 2009
21.10.2009
A £2 billion research programme to help achieve worldwide food crop production rises of at least 50 per cent by 2050 has been called for by the UK's national academy of science.
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20.10.2009
The British government was condemned today for giving UK private military and security companies a licence to kill by refusing to regulate the industry.
more...From: War on Want Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] Image: Stop Private Armies: War on Want demo (Photo: Guy Smallman)
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19.10.2009
People & Planet, the World Development Movement and Platform are taking the Treasury to court over its failure to curb Royal Bank of Scotland's support for fossil fuel projects.
more...From: People & Planet Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] |
19.10.2009
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced today that it will not award its $5 million (plus $200,000 a year for life) prize this year. The award is designed to promote African development, with a special focus on good governance.
more...Related topics/regions: [Africa] Image: Mo Ibrahim Foundation
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16.10.2009
Coral reef services worldwide are worth $172 billion a year, say experts at a biodiversity conference.
more...Image: Bhutan forest © Piet van der Poel
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16.10.2009
The UK is lagging behind other European countries in taking action to prevent a billion people going hungry, according to a report released to mark World Food Day.
more...+ Governments accused of making hunger worse From: ActionAid UK Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] |
16.10.2009
Some of the poorest countries in the world have made striking progress on hunger, but some wealthier countries, such as India, lag behind, says a report released to coincide with World Food Day.
more...From: ActionAid UK |
16.10.2009
The prosector of the International Criminal Court is looking into last month’s events in Guinea, where at least 150 people were killed when security forces opened fire on an opposition rally.
more...Related topics/regions: [Netherlands] [Guinea] |
15.10.2009
Afghanistan’s next government must urgently devote greater resources to building up to 6,000 new schools, training upwards of 5,000 new midwives and professionalising the police, say aid agencies.
more...From: Oxfam International Related topics/regions: [Afghanistan] Image: Girls in Afghanistan © Oxfam
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15.10.2009
In the run up to the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October, Amnesty has called on world leaders and policymakers to change the debate on poverty from economics to addressing the human rights problems that impoverish and keep people poor.
more...From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat |
14.10.2009
Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Eritrea, Sierra Leone Chad, and Ethiopia score worst in a Global Hunger Index, which links the problem to gender inequalities.
more...From: International Food Policy Research Institute Related topics/regions: [Burundi] [Chad] [Congo (Democratic Republic of)] [Eritrea] [Ethiopia] [Sierra Leone] Image: Global Hunger Index
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14.10.2009
Increases in global contraceptive use have contributed to a decrease in the number of unintended pregnancies and, in turn, a decline in the number of abortions, says a new report.
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14.10.2009
The Congolese government’s military operation in eastern Congo, backed by UN peacekeepers and aimed at neutralising the threat from a Rwandan Hutu militia group, has resulted in an unacceptable cost for the civilian population, says an NGO coalition.
more...+ Congolese government should push companies to be more rigorous From: Oxfam International Related topics/regions: [Congo (Democratic Republic of)] [Rwanda] |
13.10.2009
Food production in Sub-Saharan Africa grew in 2008 for the first time in decades, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
more...From: SciDev.Net Image: Natural food store, California © Peter Armstrong
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12.10.2009
The UK government today blasted Vedanta Resources over its treatment of the Dongria Kondh tribe in Orissa, India.
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [India] |
11.10.2009
The world will miss its agreed target to stem biodiversity loss by next year, according to experts convening in Cape Town for a landmark conference devoted to biodiversity science.
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10.10.2009
The British Government is to provide Fairtrade with £12 million over the next four years.
more...+ Concern over bnanana price wars From: Fairtrade Foundation Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] Image: Fairtrade cocoa
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09.10.2009
The South African Council of Churches has joined in condemnation of what it describes as "savage attacks" on poor, defenceless members of the a Durban community resisting relocation and fighting for a place to call home.
more...+ Democracy’s everyday death: South Africa's quiet coup Related topics/regions: [South Africa] |
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