Full Coverage: United Kingdom

27.11.2008 Refugee organisations yesterday took the first step towards a fresh campaign to end the British government’s “inhumane, ineffective” practice of insisting that refused asylum-seekers survive only on supermarket vouchers worth £35 a week.

26.11.2008 As the scale of the global credit, climate and oil shocks becomes clearer, support for a radical 'Green New Deal' is growing, two British campaigners told a meeting in parliament last night.

26.11.2008 All espresso coffee sold in Starbucks stores in the UK and Ireland will be Fairtrade certified by the end of next year, it was announced today.

24.11.2008 Don't give to street fundraisers – "charity muggers", or chuggers – says the organisation Intelligent Giving.

24.11.2008 Racial prejudice in Britain has been declining sharply in Britain since the 1980s thanks to the greater tolerance of younger generations, according to a new study.

18.11.2008 Is our greatest right the right to think, to eat, to rest, to talk, or something unexpected, like the right to own property or to enjoy the arts?

18.11.2008 Actors for Human Rights is launching a new production, which comprises of first-hand testimonies of undocumented migrants living and working in London.

15.11.2008 British pesticides campaigner Georgina Downs wins a historic victory with a High Court ruling that the Government has been acting unlawfully in its policy on the use of pesticides in crop spraying and failure to protect public health.

14.11.2008 People and the environment must be at the heart of fundamental reform of the international financial and economic system, a group of 24 NGOs tells UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown today as he leaves for the G20 Summit in Washington.
+ G20 must put fight against poverty at the center of global economic reforms

12.11.2008 Slavers of Harley Street, an addition to the Dockland Museum's London, Sugar and Slavery gallery, lifts the lid on London’s middle-class investments in slavery, dispelling the myth that the archetypal slave-owner was sitting on a porch in the Caribbean surveying his plantations.

10.11.2008 Almost a year since the opening of the only permanent exhibition in London dedicated to exploring slavery, the Docklands Museum is welcoming people to examine their own histories in relation to the capital city and its role in the global slave trade.

10.11.2008 Anti-poverty and environmental groups representing over nine million people are today urging British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call time on the global greed responsible for the worst financial crisis in history.

09.11.2008 Was the UK Climate Change Bill really approved by parliament or was it a dream? If this attack of political common sense continues, what will be the next campaign success story?

08.11.2008 London’s homeless people will make their voices heard at Museum of London on 4 December with the opening of Homeless in the Capital.

07.11.2008 Taking Liberties is a rich and absorbing show, of enormous educational value – every secondary school in the land would benefit from a visit – and full of interesting and revealing titbits and insights.

07.11.2008 Watch and comment on the best new international films from the United Nations, development agencies and independent producers: the We The Peoples film festival.

05.11.2008 I sat slumped in my seat as the credits rolled for Hunger, feeling as though I had been repeatedly punched in the head by Mohammed Ali. It is a powerful, unrelenting film.

05.11.2008 The Science Museum is to stage an exhibition that looks into the global food crisis and the debate surrounding genetically modified crops. The exhibition will be officially launched on 17 December by Professor John Beddington, the Government Chief Scientific Advisor.

05.11.2008 Late diagnosis of HIV remains an "alarming issue" among Africans living in the UK, according to data released by the Health Protection Agency.

04.11.2008 A one-day conference will explore the vital role of the arts, media, government, third sector campaigns and wider civil society in contributing to a fresh vision of human rights - a vision that shows their value and relevance for everyone.