Full Coverage: United Kingdom

30.04.2009 The United Kingdom comes bottom of a new "Intellectual Property Watch List", which aims to be a global snapshot of how copyright laws serve or subvert consumer interests around the world.

28.04.2009 Current Government proposals under new EU legislation need to be more ambitious if they are to deliver the positive change needed to protect Britain’s rivers, according to a new campaign network.

27.04.2009 Governments are responding to public disgust at financial greed by increasing taxes for high earners. But it's a reminder that becoming a little less rich does not address extreme global inequalities.

26.04.2009 Exhibition of 100 ID portraits found at S-21, a Khmer Rouge torture and interrogation prison where fewer than 20 out of 14,200 prisoners are believed to have survived.

25.04.2009 Several hundred people today staged a protest against British company Vedanta, as it bids to expand its controversial aluminium refinery in India.

24.04.2009 British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has been attacked for backing the use of mercenary troops, which a development charity says will increase the risk of human rights abuse.

24.04.2009 UK legislation to allow the government to hold secret investigations into suspicious deaths involving state agents would undermine accountability and breach human rights law, warns an international rights group.

22.04.2009 The UK government’s promise to meet existing aid commitments to the world’s poorest people in 2010-11 was welcomed by a major development group - but it expressed concern at “efficiency savings” totalling some £155 million planned for the Department for International Development for the same period.
+ Green and Brown shoots in contradictory budget
+ Campaigners celebrate! UK government sticks to aid promises
+ UK sticks to its aid promises
+ Save the Children reacts
+ Budget fails 3.9 million UK children living in poverty
+ Darling blows historic opportunity to build low-carbon future

21.04.2009 Leading British retailers Tesco and Primark today are accused of cashing in on the recession with cheap fashion sales by exploiting overseas garment workers.

20.04.2009 A new bill that campaign groups warn could precipitate human rights and environmental damage by UK companies is being rushed through parliament a day before the Government releases its supposedly ‘green’ budget.

19.04.2009 Although his case study of China is hardly typical, Timothy Garton Ash offers a painful reminder that cutbacks in media reporting have further diminished coverage of foreign news. Guardian

16.04.2009 The Prince’s Trust breached charity law by running a joint fundraising event with a Conservative Party body called Women2Win, the Charity Commissioners have ruled.

15.04.2009 If you work for an NGO, or have made a donation, or been on a march, or signed a petition for a fairer world, The Fever has something to say to you.

07.04.2009 Hundreds of Tamil protesters have rallied through the night outside Parliament demanding the government acts to end war in Sri Lanka.
+ Oslo protests
+ Resettlement for IDPs to Begin from Mannar before April

07.04.2009 Previous adaptations of August Strindberg’s 1888 play Miss Julie have placed it in South Africa, the US and Ireland, and have added race to the original’s clash of class and gender. So there’s no reason why the Polight Theatre should not take it as an inspiration for a short piece on European migrants.

06.04.2009 A leading children's charity has declared a "crisis" for families in the UK, as it partners with another UK charity to distribute cash grants to around 1,000 families who are struggling in the recession.

06.04.2009 A timely piece of research by the Sustainable Development Commission but why add the question mark to its title?

06.04.2009 The outcome of the G20 reinforced fears that the US and China will not reach agreement on climate change this year. Maybe it's time for campaigners to downgrade the Copenhagen summit, however unpalatable.

04.04.2009 The 10th London Palestine Film Festival runs at the Barbican Centre and the School of Oriental and African Studies on 24 April -8 May.

04.04.2009 The Charities Aid Foundation has welcomed a parliamentary select committee recommendation that charities should be fully compensated for cash deposited in failed Icelandic banks.
+ Banking Crisis: The impact of the failure of the Icelandic banks