Full Coverage: Europe

30.11.2007 Sweden tops a new Humanitarian Response Index, followed by Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the European Commission.
From: Dara International

30.11.2007 UK household expenditure on ethical goods and services has almost doubled in the past five years - but is still a small proportion of the total annual consumer spend, according to the Co-operative Bank's Ethical Consumerism Report.
From: The Co-operative Bank

29.11.2007 The inaugural UK staging of Hollywood’s Annual ARTIVIST (activist artists) Film Festival takes place at the Genesis cinema in Whitechapel, east London, on 7-8 December.

29.11.2007 Population 6 million.
400,000 dead.
2.5 million displaced.
4 million reliant on aid.
What will you do?
Tricycle Theatre, London, 2 December

28.11.2007 Keep world leaders on track: join the National Climate March in London on 8 December.

28.11.2007 The Security Council should target people and organisations that help violate UN arms embargoes and strengthen action against arms brokers, according to the first analysis of the world body's 27 embargoes since 1990.
From: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

27.11.2007 Responding to the Uk government chief scientific adviser's claim that there is a moral case for GM crops, an environmental group said such crops are not needed to deal with growing populations and climate change.

27.11.2007 Domestic violence in the Russian Federation; sex slavery in India; self-immolation in Central Asian republics; gender-based violence and HIV; and 'compensation' marriages are the five underreported stories used by the UN Population Fund to launch a campaign against gender-based violence.
From: UNFPA

26.11.2007 Britain's agricultural aid is ignoring the needs and voices of the poorest farmers and prioritising economic growth over tackling hunger and improving food security, according to a new report.

25.11.2007 A year on, Ivar Amundsen remembers his friend Alexander Litvinenko and reflects on the ruthlessness of Putin's Russia.
From The New Statesman

22.11.2007 The prospects of a nuclear power renaissance in Britain are zero and the global industry is in steep decline, Green MEPs warned yesterday.

22.11.2007 Invasion - a comparison of Soviet and Western media performance, by Nikolai Lanine and Media Lens.

21.11.2007 The 21st Fair Trade Fair - which claims to be the oldest and largest "Fair Christmas Event" in the UK will be held at Westminster Central Hall, Parliament Square, on 1-2 December.

21.11.2007 British mining corporations supported by the UK government, such as Vedanta Resources, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, are complicit in human rights abuse while making huge profits in developing countries, a new report claims.

20.11.2007 Major world powers, including Russia and the United States, are circumventing international bans on chemical weapons development under the pretense of expanding law enforcement capabilities, charge arms control experts.

19.11.2007 As European Union development ministers meet in Brussels to discuss Economic Partnership Agreements today, a leading international charity warns that signing proposed temporary "framework agreements" would damage economies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific countries and undermine regional economic integration.

16.11.2007 Remembrance Day was marred by the unacknowledged deaths in Iraq - a genocide that threatens to outstrip the horrors of Rwanda in the numbers killed and displaced, says John Pilger.
FromNew Statesman

16.11.2007

16.11.2007 In eastern Slovakia, some of the poorest and most marginalized people in Europe are often denied their right to education and are subject to discrimination and segregation in schools, says Amnesty International.

16.11.2007 It will take at least 5 to 10 years for the marine environment to recover from the oil spill that wreaked havoc in the Kerch Strait leading to the Black Sea last week, says a leading environmental group.