Full Coverage: Northern Europe

31.08.2005 Britain's Department for International Development is accused of spending UK aid money on a public relations campaign to pursue a privatisation agenda in Sierra Leone.

31.08.2005 Many councils are demanding an urgent review of new legislation that deprives failed asylum-seekers of benefits - a move which they say can lead to destitution, homelessness and children taken into care.

31.08.2005 Climate change will wreak havoc on the UK's marine environment, deepening the decline of cod, threatening the future survival of some sea bird colonies, and causing wide-scale coastal disruption, says a new report.

30.08.2005 Part of east London will become a no-go zone in September as the capital once again plays unwilling host to the world’s largest arms fair.

30.08.2005 The Helsinki Conference, 7-9 September 2005 is the culmination of the Helsinki Process. It is a multi-stakeholder dialogue and networking event for addressing the challenge of making ambitious targets of the world community a reality. 400 representatives of civil society, government, the corporate sector, academia and media are invited to come together to build commitment for the implementation of needed steps towards a safer, more just and democratic world.

30.08.2005 The UK government was on Sunday blasted by development agencies for blowing £700,000 of a £3m relief project meant for Malawi—a country plagued by drought, HIV/AIDS, and a disastrous economy—on hotel bills and meals for U.S. consultants.

29.08.2005 The Mayor of London, Muslim and Sikh organisations and campaign groups are joining to lobby MPs to ensure government security measures do not criminalise those who condemn terrorist attacks and those whose help to the police in fighting terrorism is vital.

26.08.2005 Petitions to Parliament contributed to Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807... the fight goes on.

26.08.2005 Deportations of Muslim clerics by European countries have set back community relations and led to serious human rights violations, says a new report.

26.08.2005 A publisher announces it will "green" its book production and publish its first book printed on paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.

25.08.2005 The UK’s new security measures targeting non-nationals suspected of terrorism undermine basic human rights, Amnesty International said Wednesday, expressing concern that individuals deported to third world countries may be at risk of torture.

24.08.2005 Home Office figures released show the number of applications to come to the UK has fallen again.

23.08.2005 A Scots local newspaper editor is facing charges of incitement to racial hatred after he published an editorial opposing a proposed refugee centre in the north-east of Scotland.

22.08.2005 Take a red flower to lay at the Japanese embassy in London to represent the blood of slaughtered dolphins.

22.08.2005 Two international campaign groups have produced an online game to help increase pressure on the EU to give more aid for water and sanitation. Play the game and see how much EU money you can collect.

22.08.2005 Two leading international NGOs have joined forces to call on the UK government to use its European Union presidency to step up aid for water and sanitation.

22.08.2005 A coalition for political action on climate change - Stop Climate Chaos - is to be launched next month by a group of NGOs.

19.08.2005 The UK should cancel plans to return failed asylum-seekers to Iraq given the unsafe conditions there, Human Rights Watch said. The Home Office has already rounded up scores of Iraqis and detained them in deportation centres.

18.08.2005 Rejected asylum-seekers should not be forcibly returned to central or southern Iraq because the whole country is extremely unstable and dangerous and no part can be considered safe, the UN refugee agency has advised.

18.08.2005 As part of The Great Volga River Route project, an International Workshop on Sustainable Development and World Heritage took place on 28-31 July 2005 in Bucharest, Romania.The aim is to link young people through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and engage them in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage and Biosphere sites.