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13.04.2006 Activists have climbed on board what they claim is "an illegal cargo vessel full of fish stolen from Guinean waters" and painted the words "Stolen Fish" on both sides of its hull.

13.04.2006 The UN Children's Fund has urged all parties to the conflict in Nepal to agree on one thing next week: children, so that they can benefit from the start of the new school year and national distribution of Vitamin A capsules and deworming tablets.
* Police fire at Nepal Bar Association protest, many injured
* General strike brutally repressed in Nepal

13.04.2006 Leading development and environment NGOs, including Christian Aid and Friends of the Earth, have welcomed the commitment by The Co-operative Bank to hold no investments in the World Bank's private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation.

13.04.2006 A Bangladeshi family planning doctor, Dr. Halida Hanum Akhter, and Haiti's Foundation for Reproductive Health and Family Education have won this year's UN Population Award.

12.04.2006 The World Trade Organization should listen to the African Union and ensure that trade rules support African development, said a leading international aid agency as African trade experts and ministers meet WTO officials for crucial talks in Kenya this week.

12.04.2006 The condition of activists Medha Patkar and Jamsingh Nargave worsened on the 14th day of hunger strike, sparked by anger over the Indian government's failure to resettle people displaced by the huge Narmada dam project.

12.04.2006 Life is completely paralysed in Nepal for yet another day, as the government clashes with pro-democracy demonstrators. Blogger Suvash Darnal
reports from Kathmandu.
* Civilians live in fear of increasing violence

12.04.2006 Some 550 leaders from 86 Brazilian tribes have slammed President Lula's government's record on indigenous peoples and have declared this month "Indigenous April" to highlight their concerns.

12.04.2006 The UN refugee agency will open an office in Chechnya as soon as security conditions allow, the organisation's chief, António Guterres, said after a visit to Moscow, St. Petersburg and three republics in the North Caucasus.

12.04.2006 Environment groups have attacked Welsh First Minister Rhodri Morgan's suggestion that a barrage in the Severn Estuary would be "our equivalent to the Three Gorges Dam" in China: they point out that the dam is an environmental and social disaster, set to make an estimated 1.2 million people homeless and a unique species of white dolphin extinct.

11.04.2006 The Nepalese government must stop arresting journalists and other media workers, 97 of whom have been detained and 24 others injured during nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations since 5 April, an international media watchdog said yesterday.
* Kathmandu homes to be raided: Home Ministry
* Nepal army accused of beating up medical students

11.04.2006 The Nepalese army retaliated against protesting staff and students at a teaching hospital in Kathmandu yesterday by attacking the students' hostel at night, according to a report on the International Nepal Solidarity Network (which is banned in Nepal).

11.04.2006 More food and peacekeepers are arriving in Central Katanga, DR Congo - where mortality rates "are well above emergency thresholds" - but few agencies are operating there, says an update by an international refugee group.
* DRC: 'Ketudi Byakudya' - We don't have enough food

11.04.2006 Rising nitrogen emissions from developing nations will soon threaten plant life in some of the most biodiverse parts of the planet, warn researchers.

11.04.2006 Greenpeace says it is on the tail of a huge cargo ship full of "stolen fish" from Guinea heading to the Spanish port of Las Palmas.

11.04.2006 Consumer groups urged G8 energy ministers meeting in Moscow yesterday - World Consumer Rights Day - to produce a realistic energy action plan, while campaigners around the world organised a host of other activities.

11.04.2006 Five medical staff working for a Christian Aid-funded organisation have been murdered in north-west Afghanistan. The killings follow the death of two Catholic development agency workers in a mine attack in Sri Lanka.

11.04.2006 A Catholic development agency has called for end to violence in Sri Lanka as two aid workers are named among seven dead following a mine attack.

10.04.2006 UN human rights officials have expressed concern at reports of the Nepalese army shooting into a crowd of demonstrators, resulting in death and injury.
* More coverage: International Solidarity Nepal Network, "the website so good it's banned in Nepal".
* In their own words: Nepal blogs.
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10.04.2006 Millions of Nepalis have been affected by a curfew imposed in the capital and other major cities. For detailed coverage see the International Solidarity Nepal Network, "the website so good it's banned in Nepal". In their own words: Nepal blogs.
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