Full Coverage: Europe

31.07.2008 A change in the law is needed in the wake of the House of Lords ruling in favour of the Serious Fraud Office's termination of a corruption investigation into BAE arms deals with Saudi Arabia, say campaigners.

30.07.2008 British foreign secretary David Miliband is facing claims that the government is mounting a political block against moves to regulate UK private military companies amid reports of human rights abuse in Iraq.

30.07.2008 Developing countries were right not to give into heavy-handed negotiating tactics by the US and the EU as crucial trade talks collapsed, according to a development group.
+ Pro-development approach essential if WTO talks to resume

29.07.2008 The House of Lords will give its verdict on Wednesday on the Serious Fraud Office's appeal against a ruling that its director acted unlawfully when he stopped a corruption investigation into a huge BAE-Saudi arms deal.

28.07.2008 The British water company Biwater has failed in its bid to claim up to $20 million in damages from the Tanzanian government following the collapse of a controversial water privatisation contract in 2005.

27.07.2008 "The Age of Stupid" is now – because we continue to pump out carbon while knowing that it’s poisoning the world. The Age of Stupid is also an entertaining documentary film. But the makers hope it will be more: that it will help mobilise NGOs and individuals into action.
+ Pete Postlethwaite at the movies

26.07.2008 How far would you go to defend what you believed to be right? Which political rights do you enjoy in Britain today and which would you least like to lose? Taking Liberties: the struggle for Britain's freedom and rights runs at the British Library until March 2009.

25.07.2008 Austria has banned the import of the "highly dangerous" genetically engineered maize MON 863, produced by US agro-chemical giant Monsanto.

25.07.2008 Petroleum-fuelled prosperity is masking the challenge of oil depletion and removing the sense of urgency that is desperately needed to promote diversification in oil-exporting states, a report warns.

24.07.2008 The number of refused asylum-seekers living destitute in Leeds has more than doubled over the last 18 months, according to a new study that says the asylum system is not working.

23.07.2008 A photography exhibition looks at the prevalence of slavery and injustice in the 21st century through the lenses of eight internationally acclaimed documentary photographers.

22.07.2008 Deforestation is still rampant globally and European Union countries are guilty of compounding the problem, according to a new report.

20.07.2008 Britain can no longer rely on US assurances that it does not use torture, says a new report on human rights by a group of MPs, who also question the outsourcing of torture of British nationals by Pakistan, say London must do more to bring about the closure of Guantánamo Bay, urge that a stronger line be taken with China and voice alarm at the deteriorating rights of Iraqi women.

18.07.2008 As the UK Government's Climate Bill reaches its final stages, Pete Postlethwaite presents his new feature documentary, The Age of Stupid, to the All-Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group on July 21

17.07.2008 Europe is in danger of falling significantly behind the US and other rich nations when it comes to irresponsible drug promotion, according to a new survey by an international consumer organisation.

16.07.2008 A two-part thriller involving participants in international climate change negotiations will be shown on BBC2 on 23 and 25 July.

15.07.2008 The British government must fulfil its responsibilities to the people of East Timor, following a quarter-century of violence during which the UK supplied arms to Indonesian forces that illegally occupied East Timor until 1999, a Catholic development group said today.

15.07.2008 A judgment by Switzerland's highest judicial body "sets a grave precedent for independent humanitarian action in zones of conflict," says an international medical organisation.

14.07.2008 An alarming number of injuries are sustained by asylum deportees at the hands of private "escorts" contracted by the Home Office, says a report published today.

10.07.2008 The Independent Asylum Commission's final report recommends the UK conducts a "root and branch review" of its detention policies, and that it should stop detaining the children of asylum-seekers entirely.