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04/30/2008 The UK Competition Commission’s recommendation for a food chain ombudsman has been welcomed as a way of preventing big supermarkets from imposing unfair terms and conditions on producers in developing countries.

04/30/2008 Refugees account for over half of those that will need food aid this year due to increased food prices, writes an international refugee agency, noting that violent reactions to the crisis may also force more people to flee their homes.

04/30/2008 Zimbabwean groups have asked the international community not to turn away from their country at this key moment. Human rights advocates in Washington have picked up the mantle, urging their African counterparts to press Robert Mugabe on key issues of democracy and human rights.

04/30/2008 The indigenous Ayoreo peoples of Bolivia and Paraguay are increasingly forced out of the wilderness by ecological destruction only to confront a new brand of isolation from their ancestral way of life.

04/30/2008 Medical research and development largely disregards the health needs of millions of people in developing countries and needs a complete overhaul, according to a leading international medical charity.

04/30/2008 Why some say travelers should think twice before boarding.

04/30/2008 The world food crisis is hurting a lot of people, but global agribusiness firms, traders and speculators are raking in huge profits.

04/29/2008 Scientists at a U.S. university are developing indoor fish farming techniques that may prove "a sustainable answer to the world's growing fishery crisis," reports an environmental research institute.

04/29/2008 It is impossible to promote a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace without engaging Hamas, says a women-for-peace group referring to former U.S. President Carter's talks with the governing political party in Palestine, which is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.

04/29/2008 Despite the multitude of political and social barriers they face, the daughters of migrant workers in China are determined to change the course of their lives by securing solid educations and careers.

04/29/2008 In the wake of World Malaria Day, an anti-pesticide advocacy organization discusses the danger of spraying DDT to kill mosquitoes carrying the disease and promotes malaria prevention alternatives.

04/29/2008 The bark beetle is devastating North American trees because global warming has created a perfect climate for them. The ability of northern forests to take up and store atmospheric carbon is not just compromised; it is reversed.
From: Climate Progress

04/29/2008 Chevron’s ongoing role in financing and profiting from the military regime in Myanmar (Burma) is documented in a report released today that alleges continued human rights violations by pipeline security forces, including murder, rape, torture and forced labour.
From EarthRights International

04/29/2008 World leaders at a UN meeting in Switzerland must go beyond immediate aid to address the root causes of the global food price crisis, an international charity said before UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched an appeal for $755 million to help the starving and said he would chair a new task force on the issue.

04/29/2008 A new campaign has been launched targeting British company Vedanta over its plans to mine a sacred mountain in India.

04/29/2008 Arctic scientists are preparing for the possibility that the North Pole could lose all its ice cover for a time in 2008.
From: New Scientist

04/29/2008 Kenyans talk about how they feel they are denied basic human rights - views that are particularly revealing given the violence that followed the country's disputed election results.

04/28/2008 Few people are aware that Louisiana is home to the United Houma Nation, nearly half of whose members were displaced when Hurricane Katrina struck. They are still struggling to get their lives back.
From: Reznet

04/28/2008 A bill to amend laws allowing workers to sue for pay discrimination on the basis of gender, race, or age was blocked Friday from debate in the U.S. Senate.

04/28/2008 Hundreds of Chileans have announced their intention to leave the Catholic Church following the Vatican's involvement in a local constitutional ruling to ban free contraception.