http://us.oneworld.net/article/archive/3319 en_US http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83708 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83705 Global production of solar photovoltaic cells increased 51 percent in 2007, to 3,733 megawatts. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83702 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83703 More than 500 women representing over 40 countries began last week a 12-day bicycle tour of the Middle East to campaign for peace. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160453/1/3319 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83698 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 http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83700 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. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160445/1/3319 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83685 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. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160430/1/3319 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83692 NGO representatives in Chad are mourning the killing by bandits of Pascal Marlinge, the country director of Save the Children UK. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160421/1/3319 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83682 The United States should repeal restrictions on humanitarian assistance to Burma and help those affected by Cyclone Nargis, said an international refugee agency yesterday, higlighting the "tremendous need inside Burma." http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160386/1/3319 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. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160385/1/3319 Tighter government monitoring to prevent the continued dumping of toxic e-waste on the developing world is demanded by the world federation of consumer organisations.