Full Coverage: Asia and the Pacific

18.11.2009 “Do we have to point out that the police are not supposed to take their orders from industrial conglomerates?”
+ Activists and journalists deported, detained and intimidated

18.11.2009 Seventy per cent of Afghans surveyed see poverty and unemployment as the major cause of the conflict in their country, according to new research by an international aid agency and a group of Afghan organisations.

17.11.2009 The Egyptian authorities must act immediately to protect Cairo’s poorest inhabitants from rockslides and other dangers, says a leading rights group.

16.11.2009 Is brutality in the name of patriotism more justified than violence in the name of parallel ideologies, be it Maoism, communalism, or Hindu nationalism, asks Dilip Simeon.

16.11.2009 The European Commission is turning a blind eye to corruption, lack of transparency and poor human rights in a bid to secure gas supplies in the repressive police state of Turkmenistan, according to a new report.

16.11.2009 What a difference a day makes. I did bear witness, indeed, but to something altogether more inspiring ... to people power in its most direct form.

+ Message from Greenpeace's new international executive director

16.11.2009 It may seem far-fetched but success stories in changing sanitation behaviour in developing countries might offer insights for the difficult transition to low carbon lifestyles for the rich.

15.11.2009 The oceans slow down global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide. But there is a heavy price to pay in their own ecosystem. Cosmos Magazine

15.11.2009 Southeast Asian leaders agreed there was virtually no chance of finalising an internationally legally-binding agreement on climate change at the international conference in Copenhagen in December - and a proposed pledge to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 was dropped from the final statement of a summit in Singapore.
+ No time for Copenhagen deal, says Obama
+ No Climate Deal in Copenhagen Good for Green Patent Rights
+ EU must step-in to save Copenhagen from disaster

13.11.2009 The theft of West Papua's mineral wealth must end. The province's courageous resistance movement deserves nothing less, says John Pilger.

12.11.2009 As Primark’s new London store opened today, anti-poverty campaigners hung out the retailer’s “dirty washing” in public with a clothes line that cited workers making its clothes for as little as 7p an hour. .

12.11.2009 About 200 million under-fives in developing countries suffer from stunted growth, says a UN report.

11.11.2009 The planned expansion of plantations in the Papuan provinces of Indonesia should be immediately suspended and reviewed amid concerns over massive deforestation and widespread exploitation of local communities, environmentalists warn.

11.11.2009 Temperatures across the Yangtze River Basin could increase from 1.5-2 degrees Celsius over the next 50 years, while extreme weather events will also become more frequent, according to the largest river basin climate vulnerability assessment yet done.

10.11.2009 Industrialised countries must give at least 1.5 per cent of their gross domestic product to help developing countries onto a low-carbon economic path, a conference of climate-vulnerable countries agreed today.

09.11.2009 Vulnerable developing countries should embrace a carbon-neutral future, Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed told the opening of the Climate Vulnerable Forum in the Maldives.
+ Maldives on OneWorld

09.11.2009 Journalists from Azerbaijan, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Tunisia will be presented with International Press Freedom Awards this month.

06.11.2009 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown jhas been asked to undertake an investigation into the death of Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi, the New York Times reporter killed during a British military operation that rescued reporter Stephen Farrell from Taliban captors.

06.11.2009 India’s response to climate change has been paltry, half-hearted and directed at preserving existing elite lifestyles. Its credibility in international negotiations will only be restored if it takes urgent measures to reduce domestic energy use, says Praful Bidwai.

04.11.2009 The new Bangladesh-based International Centre for Climate Change and Development launches its first short course on climate adaptation on 15 November.