Full Coverage: United Kingdom

30.03.2007 World leaders agreed more than 100 years ago on a process to settle international disputes like the one causing sabres to rattle in London and Tehran this week, says the Transnational Foundation. Why don't they use it?

29.03.2007 Participate at the CIVICUS World Assembly, which is a forum for international civil society representatives to get together, exchange ideas, experiences and build strategies for a just world.
Meet high-profile speakers and grassroots activists from all over the world at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre - Glasgow, Scotland 23 to 27 May 2007.

25.03.2007 It’s not particularly original in what it has to say, and it’s just five static characters on the same unchanging set, yet Weights, at the Blue Elephant Theatre in London, is entertaining and oddly satisfying.

23.03.2007 Even after a national ruling allowing schools to ban full-face Islamic veils from schools, Britain’s government and courts still don’t do enough to protect children from their parents’ beliefs, says Maryam Namazie.

23.03.2007 An annual commemoration day is to be held to recall Britain's role in the slave trade, and the fight against it, says deputy prime minister John Prescott.

22.03.2007 The British government may fingerprint children as young as 11 for the country’s National Identity register. Fingerprint IDs will be cross-checked against prints from 900,000 unsolved crimes.
From: Child Rights Information Network

20.03.2007 A vineyard established by a German mining engineer in Burma will probably be added to the Burma Campaign’s “dirty list” of investors helping prop up one of the world’s worst dictatorships.

19.03.2007 Britain's Prince Harry is set to receive a warm welcome from many ordinary Iraqis in Basra who are accustomed to seeing the sons of their own leaders enjoying lives of privilege.
From: Institute for War and Peace Reporting

19.03.2007 Public water providers need to be at the heart of efforts to tackle the global water crisis, according to a report released ahead of World Water Day on 22 March.

14.03.2007 The British Government has been urged to suspend plans for experimental GM potato trials, in the wake of a Dutch court order for the destruction of permits for trials in the Netherlands because of inadequate assessment of environmental risks.

13.03.2007 Three interesting events coming up at the Science Museum's Dana Centre in April: Future global issues and what the planet might face by 2025 including carbon credits, expensive fuel, global health inequality; Is Water the Next Oil?; and Rights for Robots.

12.03.2007 The British Gurkha Welfare Society has taken a full-page ad in today's Guardian newspaper to appeal to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair for fair treatment for Nepalis who have served in the British army.

07.03.2007 Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain 1700-1850 is an excellent idea for an exhibition and is good as far as it goes – but it doesn’t go far enough, says OneWorld UK's Daniel Nelson.

07.03.2007 Considering the success achieved by the film of Al Gore’s global warming lecture, An Inconvenient Truth - which claims to be the fourth highest grossing documentary of all time – it is surprising, says OneWorld UK Editor Daniel Nelson, that the current rash of film festivals in London does not boast a single film about climate change.

07.03.2007 The British Prime Minister's peculiar attitude to America's leaders weighs heavily on his domestic legacy, says Godfrey Hodgson.

06.03.2007 A call for a ban on the production of drugs in food crops has been made by a UK environmental group in the wake of US government preliminary approval for the commercial production of GM pharmaceutical rice containing human genes.

06.03.2007 Lontoon kaupunki aikoo näyttää maailman kaupungeille mallia ilmastonmuutoksen torjunnassa. Kaupungin pormestari on julkaissut tavoitteellisen toimintasuunnitelman, jonka avulla Lontoon hiilidioksidipäästöjä lasketaan 60% vuoden 1990 tasosta vuoteen 2025 mennessä. Vastaavista tavoitteista ei olla vielä missään maailman kaupungissa kuultu.

05.03.2007 Campaigners are urging two British ministers to press Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama to respect press freedom and human rights when they meet in London on Tuesday

02.03.2007 It will take “one or two more Katrina-style catastrophes” to get people thinking about global warming, Colin Challen, the British MP who chairs the parliamentary all-party committee on climate change, tells OneWorld UK.
+ OneWorld's Climate Change Guide