Full Coverage: Europe

29.12.2007 Companies in Norway have until Monday to increase the proportion of women on their boards to 40 per cent or face the prospect of being shut down.
From Daily Telegraph

27.12.2007 Intense diplomatic efforts are continuing in Afghanistan to prevent the expulsion of a senior UN official accused of engaging in talks with leaders of the Taliban.

26.12.2007 Six French aid workers have been sentenced to eight years of forced labour for attempting to kidnap more than 100 African children, who they said were Darfuri orphans.
From Earth Times

26.12.2007

21.12.2007 New European Union market access regulations for developing countries may devastate livelihoods and undermine growth, warns an international charity.

19.12.2007 A European Union-wide campaign for "adequate minimum income schemes" has been launched by the European Anti Poverty Network, to ensure an EU based on social justice and equal opportunities.

19.12.2007 Poor countries will be denied up to £170 million this Christmas by supermarkets who fail to pay developing country suppliers a fair price for imported groceries, according to researchers.

18.12.2007 About 60 per cent of annual turnover in UK retailing occurs during the Christmas period. A new briefing, The Carbon Cost of Christmas, exposes some of the biggest festival 'No-nos' followed by some big Christmas ‘Yes-yeses'.

17.12.2007 The sacking of the European Fisheries Council was demanded by 200 Greenpeace activists from 14 European countries this morning when they blocked the seven entrances to the EU building where the Council was meeting to determine catch levels for 2008.

17.12.2007 The City of London is criticised for paying out million of pounds in Christmas bonuses while denying many of the world's poorest countries the tax owed by British companies.

14.12.2007 Some 2,000 children pass through UK holding centres each year. Their imprisonment breaches a key UN Convention, says Alice O'Keeffe.
From New Statesman

10.12.2007 Shenanigans at the UN climate change conference in Bali: Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley - a British climate sceptic who has already presented "The IPCC's Scientific Fraud" at one of the conference's many side-events - was called out of a room in which he was speaking and told he would be "thrown out by security" if he continued to hold press briefings within the conference compound. As usual these days, the confrontation has been captured on YouTube (UNmenace1. mov and UNmenace2.mov).
Tuesday, Bali: Monckton strikes again. In a nearby hotel - not the UN conference centre - he is due to be part of a panel that will speak after a screening of the "anti" TV programme The Great Global Warming Swindle.

06.12.2007 In past years, the HIV epidemic has ravaged the populations of many former Soviet nations, the majority of victims claimed by needle sharing and drug use. Thanks to new programs such as needle exchange and harm reduction, these countries are taking big steps in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

05.12.2007 Saudi Arabia was given the Fossil of the Day Award by NGOs at the climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, on Wednesday.

05.12.2007 The newest official U.S. intelligence review not only contradicts the Bush administration's line on Iranian intentions regarding nuclear weapons, but points to a link between Tehran's 2003 decision to halt research on weaponisation and its decision to negotiate with European foreign ministers on both nuclear and Iranian security concerns.

04.12.2007 New evidence shows a growing tide of human rights abuses perpetrated by private armies in Iraq as the UK government spends millions of pounds on unregulated mercenaries.

03.12.2007