http://us.oneworld.net en_US Showcasing the most important news and views on human rights and development worldwide. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160548/1/ WASHINGTON, May 14 (OneWorld) - Americans -- from nonprofit groups to the Rockefeller family -- are starting to fight back against the petroleum industry, which is earning record profits as consumers face spiraling gas prices. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83725 This month marks the 60th anniversary of Israel's existence, but the organization Jewish Voice for Peace says it will not celebrate the establishment of a Jewish state until Palestinians are granted their fundamental human rights. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83724 Asian governments -- seen to have greater leverage with Myanmar authorities -- are being asked to increase the pressure on the military junta to effectively address the humanitarian crisis caused by Cyclone Nargis. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83723 A photoessay including award-winning photographs depicts the lives of girls in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and Nepal who marry as children. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83722 A South African High Court judge took "a brave step forward" when he recently ruled that the state's public water distribution system denies people their constitutional right to "a dignified life," blogs Rebecca Brown. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160541/1/ Global production of photovoltaic or solar cells -- which convert the sun's light directly to electricity -- increased 51 percent in 2007, reports an environmental research institute. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160534/1/ WASHINGTON, May 13 (OneWorld) - What single silver bullet is simultaneously reducing air pollution and oil dependency, rolling back urban congestion, and fighting obesity? http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83720 The Uzbek government continues to persecute people believed to have ties to the 2005 Andijan massacre, when state security forces killed hundreds in an attempt to quell anti-government protests, says a new report from a human rights monitor. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160530/1/ Across Bangladesh, poor rural women are building up their country's fragile democracy by methodically and discreetly eliminating the small inequities of their daily lives. From: Ms. Magazine http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83721 Historically, the Cuban revolution was "a success," writes scholar Saul Landau. But can Cuba today overcome the economic hardships -- and the resulting social changes -- the country endured after the collapse of the Soviet Union? http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160529/1/ More than 350,000 children living in poor countries could be saved each year using the money lost as corporations engage in illegal trade-related tax evasion, says a new report from an anti-poverty coalition. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83719 Climate scientists are ready to bet serious money that recent global cooling predictions are wrong. From: RealClimate http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83718 British shoppers have been warned that some products on sale may contain palm oil grown in Colombia after paramilitaries murdered or forced poor people off their land amid mounting demand to use the fruit of palm oil trees. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83717 The British government has been actively supporting plans by a British company to build an open-cast mine in Bangladesh that would destroy the homes of more than 40,000 people and threaten the water supplies of a further 100,000. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83716 Why do some people continue to hold Rachel Carson responsible for millions of malaria deaths, ask John Quiggin and Tim Lambert.