Two-year delay on baby milk labelling

1 March, 2008 - 01:00
After an action brought by industry, 2007 European regulations that limit promotion of infant formula, and require companies to explain that it is not sterile, will not apply until 2010, the High Court has ruled. The Government, whose advisory body says the regulations are too weak, is appealing, and Baby Milk Action is calling for manufacturers to comply nevertheless with the regulations, and for Trading Standards to remove non-compliant labels. UK breastfeeding rates are amongst the lowest in the industrialised world.
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Petition to help asylum seekers complete their education

1 March, 2008 - 01:00
Currently, asylum seekers have no right to work, have no access to loans or grants, yet are charged international student fees. Brighter Futures Manchester campaign for equal access to higher education for asylum seekers and are petitioning the government to bring about change.
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Vote Rigging or Blasphemy blocks YouTube

25 February, 2008 - 01:00
Pakistan's official Internet regulatory body has ordered all Pakistani ISPs to block access to YouTube until further notice, claiming that the proportion of “non-Islamic objectionable video” had increased to an unacceptable level. Pakistani bloggers suspect a video showing vote-rigging may also be a cause. Because of configuration issues, the block even affected people outside Pakistan.
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Independent Police Complaints Commission in Crisis

25 February, 2008 - 01:00
More than a hundred lawyers who specialise in handling police complaints resigned from the advisory body of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in protest at the “consistently poor quality of decision-making at all levels of the IPCC”.
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WIKILEAKS taken offline

23 February, 2008 - 01:00
Wikileaks, the whistleblower site that recently leaked documents related to prisons in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, was taken offline last week by its U.S. host after posting documents that implicate a Cayman Islands bank in money laundering and tax evasion activities. Those behind Wikileaks include Tibetan, Chinese and Thai political campaigners. Guardian article
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END THE SIEGE OF GAZA

20 February, 2008 - 01:00
Protest Saturday 23rd February 2008, 5-7pm, Opposite No10 Downing Street, Whitehall, London The Peace Cycle will join the protest on their bikes. Cyclists please join them at 4:45pm in Embankment gardens, by Embankment tube station.
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A message from the heart

13 February, 2008 - 01:00
Tell your MP to put some love in the air – call for 80% carbon cuts – by sending them a message from the heart telling them what you’d really love.
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Government apologises to Aborigines

13 February, 2008 - 01:00
The newly-elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has issued a formal apology to the country's indigenous people for the historic injustices they have suffered. Many Aboriginal organisations had called for a formal acknowledgement of the wrongs committed against them, in particular the policy of removing Aboriginal children from their families and placing them in white foster homes.
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Help Liberty stamp out the MOSQUITO

13 February, 2008 - 01:00
Spearheaded by young people and supported by the 11 Million Campaign, the Children’s Commissioner for England, Liberty, Groundwork and The National Youth Agency, this campaign is calling for the end to the use of all ultra-sonic dispersal devices. Using technology originally designed to scare away vermin, the ‘Mosquito’ is a device that emits a very high frequency buzzing sound which cannot be heard by people over the age of 25.
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Consumers must stop forest destruction

13 February, 2008 - 01:00
Demand for wood products is threatening the long-term survival of communities around the globe.
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