http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/5795 en_GB_uk covering poverty, human rights, and the environment - the issues too often neglected in the mainstream media. Follow global issues with OneWorld UK, the voice of civil society and independent media. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/86008 Sri Lankan war-displaced civilians, living in highly guarded camps in the northern Vauniya district, will be allowed to move freely from 1 December, according to a senior government official. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/86003 Detection dogs are helping track and count Javan rhino in Vietnam, in an attempt to save one of the world’s rarest mammals from extinction. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/86002 The annual number of deaths of children under five has fallen from around 12.5 million in 1990 to an estimated 8.8 million in 2008, says a new UN Children's Fund report. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85996 Newcastle tops Britain's latest Sustainable Cities Index, knocking the previous two winners – Bristol and Brighton – into second and third places respectively. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85998 Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention, says a new report. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164062/1/5795 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/article/view/164061/1/5795 The UN World Food Summit threw away a great chance to stop more than one billion people going hungry, according to a prominent development charity. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85992 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85991 The illicit trade in ivory, which has been increasing since 2004, has moved sharply upward this year, according to the latest analysis of seizure data. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164049/1/5795 The Egyptian authorities must act immediately to protect Cairo’s poorest inhabitants from rockslides and other dangers, says a leading rights group. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164050/1/5795 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164042/1/5795 Millions of people in poor countries will go hungry in future global food crises unless the world’s half a billion small-scale farms receive urgent funding and support, a development agency says on the first day of a global food security summit in Rome. + World leaders urged to tackle childhood hunger + FAO webcast http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164023/1/5795 More than 40 million people in 32 countries, most of them children, can now access vital health and education services after being traced and issued with birth certificates, campaigners announced today. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164038/1/5795 Policy-makers who factor the planet's multi-trillion dollar ecosystem services into their national and international investment strategies are likely to see far higher rates of return and stronger economies in the 21st century, says a new report. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164035/1/5795 A handful of countries are responsible for the failure of a crucial meeting to agree an effective mechanism that would give a global anti-corruption treaty real power, four major NGOs said today.