Full Coverage: Northern Europe

31.07.2007 GlaxoSmithKline provides research funding to doctors who write favorable opinions of depression drugs for children, despite evidence from clinical trials that the medication can cause anger and even suicide.
From: CorpWatch

26.07.2007

26.07.2007 A British parliamentary committee report on Burma should shame Britain's aid ministry into changing its policies to ensure assistance reaches those most in need even if it means delivering cross-border aid from neighbouring countries, a democracy group said yesterday.

26.07.2007 The British government's proposal to extend the period for which people can be detained under terrorism legislation to 56 days "is an assault on human rights and freedoms," says a leading rights group.

25.07.2007 The British government's continued authorisation of the export of military equipment to countries renowned for their violation of human rights is condemned by a leading peace organisation.
From: Saferworld

24.07.2007 British opposition Conservative Party proposals on international development have been welcomed by a leading charity but it challenged leader David Cameron - who yesterday addressed the Rwandan Parliament - to turn them into concrete manifesto promises.
* Webcameron
+ Saferworld response
+ Simon maxwell's ODI blog

24.07.2007 A exhibition on Changing climate, changing lives? is running at the Royal Geographical Society in London. It explores the science behind the phenomenon, projections, and the possible effects and actions in the UK.

24.07.2007 Gender equality is still generations away -- 200 years in the case of women's representation in Parliament -- Britain's Equal Opportunities Commission said today as it called for urgent action across all aspects of life to close the gaps within 10 years.
From: Equal Opportunities Commission

24.07.2007 More than 3 million scientific procedures were carried out on animals in the UK last year, up 115,800 on 2005, and 133,800 more animals were used in experiments, new government figures show.
From: National Anti-Vivisection League

23.07.2007 Britishness is the theme at the Soho Theatre in London's Dean Street in the coming weeks. Plays include White Boy (what does it mean to be a white boy in Britain today?) and Victory Street (racial tensions in northern town).

23.07.2007 With a cast of thousands - well, 1000 - Pageant celebrates 1,000 years of immigration with words, music and "spontaneous happenings". And it's free.

22.07.2007 A British official has failed to persuade Sudanese authorities to open a new site to accommodate displaced people living in squalid shelters on the fringes of an official displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region.

22.07.2007 It's happening today, it's happening here, says Freefall theatre company in a production in London (31 July-4 August) about UK sex trafficking.

22.07.2007 It's happening today, it's happening here, says Freefall theatre company in a production in London (31 July-4 August) about UK sex trafficking.

17.07.2007 Inequality in Britain is at a 40-year high, according to research released today, and the public believes the gap between rich and poor is too large.
From Joseph Rowntree Foundation

16.07.2007 Britain's New Home Secretary should back a plan to allow almost 500,000 people who are living illegally in the UK to stay and pay taxes, according to a think-tank.
From: Institute for Public Policy Research

16.07.2007 Iceland, according to Europe-wide research.
And see which European country is the worst in terms of its carbon footprint per person.

11.07.2007 Gordon Brown can do more for African than Tony Blair, as shown by his appointment to the Africa portfolio of former UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, a principal architect of the Millennium Development Goals and the man who rescued the all-but-collapsed leadership of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2005. Salim Lone explains.

05.07.2007

03.07.2007 The London Literature Festival has two key strands: Saying the Unsayable, which examines issues surrounding freedom of expression and the boundaries of offence, and Metropolitan Lines, which celebrates London as muse.