Full Coverage: Europe

21.08.2008 50 Global Days of Action Against Poverty and Inequality from 1 September to 20 October.

21.08.2008 Britain rates committed campaigners such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King far more highly than celebrities such as Sir Bob Geldof and Angelina Jolie, according to a new poll.

21.08.2008 Yarl's Wood, Britain's main immigration removal centre for women and families, comes under fire again for a lack of activity for detainees and the plight of children detained for increasing periods of time and with insufficient provision to meet their needs.

20.08.2008 Only 38 per cent of Britain's total water use comes from its own rivers, lakes and groundwater reserves - the rest is imported in products from around the world, says a report that names the UK as the world's sixth largest water importer.

20.08.2008 British mining company Vedanta is under intense pressure over its plans to mine the Dongria Kondh tribe’s land in India, as a Scottish investment group sells its shares and Amnesty International joins the campaign in support of the tribe.

18.08.2008 A new report, Environmental Claims in Advertising: Is Green a Grey Area?, has been published by the Advertising Standards Authority in response to rising concern over what consumers and campaigners see as 'greenwash'.
+ Claims in Advertising: Is Green a Grey Area? Climate controls

18.08.2008 The British government has failed to prevent child sex tourism despite having laws in place for over ten years and has turned a blind eye to the dozens of British sex offenders who travel or work abroad, says a new report.

18.08.2008 The British government has failed to prevent child sex tourism despite having laws in place for over ten years and has turned a blind eye to the dozens of British sex offenders who travel or work abroad, says a new report.

18.08.2008 The British government has failed to prevent child sex tourism despite having laws in place for over ten years and has turned a blind eye to the dozens of British sex offenders who travel or work abroad, says a new report.

15.08.2008 Thirteen Iraqi Kurds said today they were continuing a hunger strike that began last Saturday as a protest against their detention and threatened deportation from Britain.

13.08.2008 The development of genetically modified crops risks creating "the biggest disaster environmentally of all time", according to Prince Charles.
+ Prince Charles hits GM nail on head

12.08.2008 A Greenpeace team has begun placing 150 granite rocks on the bed of the German North Sea in an effort to stop fishing boats from bottom trawling.

08.08.2008 Three companies have been named "worst for abusing tribal peoples’ rights" in a statement marking the UN Day for Indigenous Peoples on 9 August.
+ Supreme Court gives go-ahead to mine – tribe vows resistance

05.08.2008 Greenpeace France has launched two court cases in an effort to find out what’s really been going at the French nuclear site Tricastin-Pierrelatte, which has been hit by a series of accidents.