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13.05.2008 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.

13.05.2008 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.

13.05.2008 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.

12.05.2008 At the third annual National Digital Inclusion Conference held in London last week, stakeholders from government, industry and voluntary sectors acknowledged the need to make digital technologies an equaliser rather than a divider through radical interventions that reach excluded citizens.

11.05.2008 I strained and strained to enjoy In Spitting Distance. I felt sympathy with every ounce of my mind for Taher Najib's tale of a Palestinian Israeli who tries to fly from Paris to his contested homeland on 11 September 2002.

10.05.2008 The French Institute's annual celebration of cultural diversity, Mosaïques, is back, with another lively mix of world cinema, literature and music. This year’s festival is timed to overlap with the UNESCO World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.

06.05.2008 Today's Millennium Development Goals summit in London is in danger of becoming an empty gesture for the world’s poor and a public relations stunt for big companies, campaigners warned today as they launched an alternative action plan and challenged UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to support it.
+ Brown slated on ‘cynical’ poverty event

03.05.2008 Queen and Country by Steve McQueen - a cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets, each one dedicated to a British soldier killed in Iraq - is on tour, starting at the Royal Festival Hall.

02.05.2008 The hit of the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Black Watch, comes to London for the first time, following a sell-out tour of Scotland, the US and Australasia.

02.05.2008 Future technology designed to cut the carbon cost of air travel will be displayed to the public for the first time in a new exhibition that opens at the Science Museum in London on 15 May.

02.05.2008 The Energy Bill being debated by parliament needs to be amended to guarantee a premium payment - known as 'feed-in tariffs' - for all the green energy generated by householders, businesses and local communities, says Friends of the Earth.

02.05.2008 Many British food and drinks processing companies have much to do before they can claim to be operating sustainably in terms of water consumption, concludes a new report.
From Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility

02.05.2008 Root for the hottest environmental entrepreneurs as they try to get their carbon-cutting innovations past a panel of climate change and business experts. Hear the straight-talking feedback and cast your vote for the best idea.

01.05.2008 a British court has ordered the government to disclose previously secret records of lobbying by the Confederation of British Industry, following a court case won by an environmental campaign group.

01.05.2008 About half of the people who moved to Britain from the countries that joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 have already left the UK, according to a new report.
From Institute for Public Policy Research