Full Coverage: Europe

30.04.2008 The UK Competition Commission’s recommendation for a food chain ombudsman has been welcomed as a way of preventing big supermarkets from imposing unfair terms and conditions on producers in developing countries.

29.04.2008 The Frontline Club is running a Congo season of films and talks, 6-15 May.

29.04.2008 A new campaign has been launched targeting British company Vedanta over its plans to mine a sacred mountain in India.

28.04.2008 Hundreds of Chileans have announced their intention to leave the Catholic Church following the Vatican's involvement in a local constitutional ruling to ban free contraception.

28.04.2008 "After eight years of Putin, the country has a rubber-stamp parliament dominated by a single party, whose only stated policy is loyalty to the Kremlin," writes Fred Weir in Moscow.

27.04.2008 Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead is a son’s documentary about his dad. But what a dad!

26.04.2008 A World Bank-backed carbon-reduction programme in which concessional loans would be offered to developing country governments was compared to a "protection racket" by Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper at a meeting in London at the weekend.

23.04.2008 Small farmers from around the world celebrated last week the International Day of Peasant's Struggle and honored the communities and organizations in over 25 countries that are challenging escalating food costs.

23.04.2008 The energy industry and government are investing in spin rather than renewable energy, said a leading development group ahead of a London meeting to discuss fuel poverty in light of rising gas and electricity bills.

22.04.2008 Activists across Europe - many dressed as orang-utans to draw attention to Unilever's "monkey business" - have been demonstrating to protect Indonesian rainforests from the expansion of the palm oil industry.

22.04.2008 Two leading voices in the fight against climate change are at loggerheads over the weight given to "food miles" in a UK labelling system designed to encourage consumers to choose low-carbon products in shops and supermarkets.

22.04.2008 One of the three writers from Thailand whom the giant retailer Tesco is trying to suppress with serial libel writs has arrived in London at the invitation of the free speech body Index on Censorship.

22.04.2008 European Union trade deals are unfair to developing countries and can lead to increased poverty warns a new report, which says the benefits of free trade deals with the EU sit with European businesses rather than developing countries.

21.04.2008 Unless cast-iron guarantees are built into plans for the 2012 Olympics, the Games will fail to leave the promised positive local legacy for the poorest residents of East London, according to a new report.

18.04.2008 Pope Benedict's papacy is "the 'greenest' ever," writes Gary Gardner, emphasizing that the religious leader actively embraces both environmental and social sustainability.

18.04.2008 The UN needs to address women's reproductive rights as it conducts the first "peer reviews" of member countries' human rights records, says a coalition of 11 rights groups from around the world.
From: Center for Reproductive Rights

16.04.2008 The UK-based mining giant Anglo American has been accused of making huge profits while its operations are worsening poverty, damaging the environment and fuelling conflict and human rights abuse.

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13.04.2008 The West's recognition of Kosovo's independence has given fresh impetus to other separatist movements. Consider Abkhazia, says Shaun Walker.
From Prospect

11.04.2008 For 50 years dangerous concentrations of radionuclides have been accumulating in earth, air and water from weapons testing and reactor incidents. Yet serious studies of the effects of radiation on health have been obscured – not least by the World Health Organisation, writes Alison Katz.