http://unimondo.oneworld.net/article/archive/2096 en_GB_uk http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164062/1/2096 A group of NGOs has lodged a legal complaint claiming that one of the world's leading timber wholesalers bought timber from Liberian companies that provided support to Charles Taylor's brutal regime. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85993 “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 http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164028/1/2096 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. . http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164018/1/2096 When Primark’s new London store opens on Thursday, anti-poverty campaigners will hang out the retailer's “dirty washing” in public with a claim that workers make the company's clothes for as little as 7p an hour. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164010/1/2096 A catastrophe is unfolding in the Niger Delta. Entire communities are devastated. The land they have lived on for generations is poisoned. Behind this catastrophe is a UK company – Shell. But they’re hiding behind a smokescreen of denials and excuses. It’s time this stopped – it’s time Shell was called to account. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85962 The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85941 Surprisingly, Ralph Nader says yes. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163910/1/2096 Hundreds of activist organisations had their internet service turned off after the US Chamber of Commerce strong-armed an upstream provider to pull the plug on The Yes Men. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163911/1/2096 For many Western campaigners, the collapse of apartheid was a highlight – perhaps the highlight - of their political lives. “Separate development” was so disgusting and the enemy so obdurate that success was particularly sweet. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85728 A useful summary of latest thinking on privatisation of public water supplies. From Poverty to Power http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85669 In 2006 Zambia earned just $133m from copper exports estimated to be worth $3bn. Trying to rectify this robbery is a tough job for the government, especially given the volatility of world prices. Zambian Economist http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163108/1/2096 Joe Berlinger describes making Crude as “heartbreaking and inspiring”. That will surely also be the verdict of most viewers. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85328 This would be a perfect article for April Fool's Day. But it's deadly serious and very original. Mara Gordon argues that Coca-Cola's distribution methods in Tanzania offer ideas for getting life-saving medicines to those who need them. Global Health http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162245/1/2096 Christian Aid is urging supporters to recruit their local MPs in a bid to bring tax justice to developing countries. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162244/1/2096 Mobile phone manufacturers must audit their supply chains in order to exclude minerals financing the armed conflict and atrocities in eastern Congo, say activists as the Mobile World Congress opens in Barcelona.