Full Coverage: Europe

25.08.2009 Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission has issued legal proceedings against the British National Party's constitution and membership criteria, which it claims breach human rights law.

25.08.2009 Half of UK adults believe the police are too heavy-handed or deploy too many officers when dealing with peaceful protests, according to a new poll.
+ Mass Visual Trespass

24.08.2009 Kwame Kwei-Armah’s four-part series retracing Queen Elizabeth’s 1954 royal trip, On Tour With The Queen, is odd but quietly engaging.

24.08.2009 On a visit to China last week, Tony Blair said that encouraging people to reduce flying and driving is not an appropriate response to climate change. This is not good enough for a prospective president of the European Union.

21.08.2009 "Deep concern" at political developments in the run-up to the much-delayed presidential elections in the internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland has been voiced by the UK-based team coordinating election observers.

21.08.2009 Containers of waste which were alleged to have been illegally exported from the UK to Brazil last month are due to arrive at the port of Felixstowe today (Friday).

20.08.2009 Indications for success at the global negotiations on climate change in Copenhagen at the end of the year are not promising, says John Gilbert of campaigning group K2S.

19.08.2009 A Global Water Roundtable has been established to develop global standards for freshwater stewardship.

17.08.2009 Adapting to a warmer climate in the UK brings the promise of Mediterranean pleasures. Whilst poor countries will struggle with food production, we can look forward to consuming more of it outdoors.

16.08.2009 The G20 Finance Ministers meeting in London on 4 September will be marked by a day of action.

14.08.2009 The British Government today took a major step to clean up public life in the Turks and Caicos Islands, following dismissal of a legal challenge to its plans.
+ Britain Suspends Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands

14.08.2009 A series of plays tackling pressing human rights issues. All performances will be by the group Actors for Human Rights with each play followed by a discussion with the play's writers and human rights campaigners.

14.08.2009 Greenpeace has been placing rocks on the sea floor in order to stop destructive bottom trawling in Sweden.

12.08.2009 Chechnya is becoming "a death zone for human rights workers", says a US-based monitoring body.

11.08.2009 British Foreign Secretary David Miliband should scrap proposals for UK private military companies to police themselves or risk further killings in Iraq and Afghanistan, said a prominent development charity, following reports that a security contractor working for a British private military company shot dead two colleagues in Baghdad.

07.08.2009 The Environment Agency has prevented a tanker from leaving the UK on suspicion that it was going abroad for illegal dismantling - the first time the Agency's powers have been used to stop a ship from leaving a British port.

06.08.2009 Photographer Tim Hetherington’s exploration of Liberia between 2003 and 2007 brings an extraordinary range of characters to life: warlords and presidents, environmental activists and traditional
hunters, political hustlers and democratic visionaries.

05.08.2009 The launch of Primark’s second biggest UK store in Bristol next week will be marked by a demonstration over the conditions faced by 7p-an-hour workers making its clothes.

03.08.2009 Immigration proposals unveiled by the British government on Monday are wrong because they target legal rather than illegal migrants and discriminate against people from the Indian subcontinent, according to Keith Vaz, chairman of parliament's home affairs committee.

03.08.2009 Officials from the UK Government's arms export agency have met Chinese military representatives - even though Beijing is still subject to a European Union military embargo.