Full Coverage: United Kingdom

31.05.2007 As outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes a farewell five-day tour of Africa ahead of the G8 summit, a report shows that Africa is still waiting for billions of dollars of aid promised at the Gleneagles summit in 2005.

30.05.2007

29.05.2007 British Prime Minister Tony Blair today begins a five-day trip to Libya, Sierra Leone and South Africa that he says "is all about showing that we need to keep re-engaging on Africa as a whole".
From: ePolitix.com

29.05.2007 Immigrants to the UK interviewed for three new reports published today had found jobs, but low pay and long hours often had a major impact on their lives beyond the workplace.
From Joseph Rowntree Foundation

25.05.2007 A parliamentary challenge to Britain's Ministry of Defence over the use of illegal interrogation techniques is a welcome attempt to discover the truth about how the armed forces are instructed to treat prisoners, says the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.
From: Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture

24.05.2007 It's Refugee Week again, 18-24 June, and as usual there's an array of events.

24.05.2007 The latest in a series of organisational storytelling seminars brings together scholars interested in the nature of stories and storytelling in organisations, and the use of stories in research on politics, gender, culture, leadership and emotion. London, 6-7 June.

24.05.2007 The UK government's new Energy White Paper is a huge missed opportunity and should have set out tougher polices on energy efficiency, renewable power and cleaner transport, said Friends of the Earth. Greenpeace joined the backlash with a statement setting out why it believes Tony Blair is wrong about nuclear power.

24.05.2007 The Fairtrade Foundation has expressed "shock and dismay" about conditions experienced by migrant workers employed by a company in the UK that is licensed to ripen the bananas sold to them by Fairtrade-certified producer groups in developing countries.

24.05.2007 Jonathan Heawood calls for active legislation for free speech in the UK.

23.05.2007 In a bid to avert criticism from environmentalists and other opponents, the UK government framed nuclear power stations as an environmentally friendly energy source as it unveiled its energy policy paper today.

23.05.2007 The UK Chagos Support Association has welcomed today's court ruling against the British government's "secret and illegal" attempt to banish Chagossians to make way for a U.S. nuclear base and urged London not to waste yet more taxpayers' money on another appeal.
+ Chagos Islanders win right to return-British court rules in their favour
+ Diego Garcia backgrounder

23.05.2007 Chagos Island families this morning secured another legal victory over the British government in their long-running struggle to be allowed to return to the Indian Ocean home from which they were evicted 40 years ago to make way for a US nuclear base. The government will almost certainly appeal, since consecutive British administrations, acting in lockstep with Washington, have shown their determination not to give an inch, whatever the courts say.
* Diega Garcia Backgrounder

22.05.2007 Bushman leader Roy Sesana will meet British MPs at the House of Commons on Wednesday to seek support for his people’s 10-year struggle to return to their land in the Kalahari desert in Botswana.
* Tribal peoples group launched in UK parliament

22.05.2007 Urgent action is needed to prevent the loss of some of Britain's most rare and threatened species, warns a report out today.
From: Countryside Council for Wales

22.05.2007 Incoming British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is urged to radically change the government's approach to arms exports in a new report that condemns "ugly" weapons sales' practices during the past decade.
From Saferworld

21.05.2007 Black Britons burst into How We Are: Photographing Britain in the fourth section (The New Britain, 1945-1969) of this fascinating exhibition.

20.05.2007 Out of India, a new display at Museum of London from 22 June, highlights the impact of the culture of the Indian subcontinent on London, and the contributions made by people of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent in the capital.

16.05.2007 It promises to be the start of an exciting association. Oxfam will be the official charity partner at the 2007 International Indian Film Awards (IIFA) to be held at Yorkshire, UK from 7 – 9 June.

15.05.2007 British MPs have been urged to defeat the "pernicious" Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill when it is debated for the third time in the House of Commons on Friday.