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05/12/2008 More than 27,000 people in the Irrawaddy delta region of Burma -- one of the areas hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis -- have received food aid and other crucial supplies, a UN food agency announced yesterday.

05/12/2008 Corporate accountability advocates called on Pepsi to publicly report water quality information, as is required of public water systems, during one of the corporation's annual shareholder meetings last week.

05/11/2008 A tragedy on an "unimaginable scale” will occur in Myanmar unless there is a massive and fast infusion of aid, experts and supplies into areas hardest-hit by the cyclone, said a spokesperson for the International Rescue Committee.
+ Up to 1.5 million in danger
+ Supplies running low
+ Forty per cent of dead or missing are children

05/10/2008 British government ministers have scrapped radical plans to test a carbon rationing scheme that would have forced citizens to carry a carbon card to swipe every time they bought petrol or paid an electricity bill. They claim the idea was too expensive and would be unpopular.
From: The Guardian

05/10/2008 NEW YORK, May 9 (OneWorld) - A human rights watchdog has launched a unique nationwide campaign to pressure the Bush administration to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

05/09/2008 The UN should establish an agency to regulate international transport emissions, notably from highly polluting activities like aviation and shipping, said a climate change watchdog.

05/09/2008 Global production of solar photovoltaic cells increased 51 percent in 2007, to 3,733 megawatts.

05/08/2008 The global food crisis is unraveling economic advances made in recent years by large sections of the poor working classes of Latin America, reports a U.S.-based ethnic media organization.

05/08/2008 More than 500 women representing over 40 countries began last week a 12-day bicycle tour of the Middle East to campaign for peace.

05/08/2008 WASHINGTON, May 8 (OneWorld) - More than 800 development and human rights activists are gathering here this week, developing and calling on Congress to implement new strategies to tackle world poverty and hunger.

05/08/2008 Exile-run media outlets and their undercover, in-country reporters have managed to keep independent news and information flowing on Myanmar politics, policies and natural disasters such as the May 2-3 cyclone.
+ Burma Regime Must Be Forced to Allow In Aid

05/08/2008 Hundreds of members of the remote Dongria Kondh tribe held a protest in India yesterday against plans by a British company, Vedanta, to mine their sacred mountain.

05/07/2008 UNITED NATIONS, May 7 (OneWorld) - A major U.S.-based humanitarian aid group is urging the Bush administration to revise its aid policy toward Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) and provide immediate assistance to the cyclone victims in that country.

05/07/2008 Jesus León Santos, the leader of a democratic farmer-to-farmer network, recently received a prestigious environmental award for promoting sustainability through traditional agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico.

05/07/2008 Sri Lanka’s worsening human rights record and failed promises for improvement undermine its claim for a place on the UN Human Rights Council, a coalition of national and international NGOs said in a letter released today.

05/07/2008 NGO representatives in Chad are mourning the killing by bandits of Pascal Marlinge, the country director of Save the Children UK.

05/07/2008 NEW YORK, May 6 (OneWorld) - Women's rights advocates in the United States have launched a novel global initiative aiming to help millions of women across the world who face violence at the hands of men.

05/06/2008 UNITED NATIONS, May 5 (OneWorld) - The United Nations is facing scathing criticism from the world's indigenous communities for its attempts to promote carbon trading as a tool to address climate change concerns.

05/03/2008 UNITED NATIONS, May 2 (OneWorld) - The global food crisis is likely to persist if speculative investment by the corporate world is not reined in soon, warned a top expert responsible for reporting to the United Nations on human rights violations.

05/02/2008 UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (OneWorld) - The Canadian government has drawn fierce condemnation from the world's indigenous communities for its refusal to sign an international document that recognizes native people's right to self-determination.