Firms that invest in Burma 'have paid for bullets'

26 September, 2007 - 01:00
The Burma Campaign had a stark message for British companies trading in the country yesterday: "If there is a crackdown and the regime opens fire, you have paid for the bullets." Demonstrations continue despite the extreme danger the protesters are in as troops move in and a curfew is imposed. Soldiers were shaving their heads as part of a plan to infiltrate the protests .
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SUDAN: Thousands more flee violence in Darfur

18 September, 2007 - 01:00
According to a UN report, conditions are worsening in Darfur as the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels prepare for peace talks in Libya next month; Over 240,000 people have been newly displaced or re-displaced during 2007 in a conflict which has claimed an estimated 200,000 lives.
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Northern Rock: Confidence tricks?

18 September, 2007 - 01:00
According to website A World To Win, the financial storm battering the Northern Rock expresses not just the unravelling of the last 30 years of credit-led expansion but also a growing loss of confidence in both politicians and bankers.
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Activist set up Gatwick 'No Borders' camp.

18 September, 2007 - 01:00
Activists protesting a proposed migrant detention centre ( near Tinsley House, another detention centre at Gatwick ) have set up a 'No Borders' camp at Balcombe village, near Crawley, Sussex, running from19th to 24th September. A previous location on a local farm had to be given up due to police bullying tactics :&nbsp, &quot, It seems like they have really pulled all the dirty tricks in their book to stop this camp from happening. They have tried to turn my neighbours against me for letting this camp take place on my land.&quot, said the farmer.
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Ministers push New GM trials.

18 September, 2007 - 01:00
"GM will come back to the UK; the question is how it comes back, not whether it's coming back," said a senior government source. Responding to media reports, a Friends Of The Earth spokesperson said "GM crops often need more pesticides, provide lower yields and have caused widespread contamination of the food supply; And Instead of feeding the world, virtually all GM crops are grown in vast monocultures for animal feed, fuelling increasingly intensive meat and livestock production systems in Europe, America and Asia".
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Sierra Leone: APC Back in power

18 September, 2007 - 01:00
In the first presidential elections since a UN Peacekeeping force left the country nearly 2 years ago, the All Peoples Congress (APC) are back in power. Prior to a coup which ousted them in 1992, the APC had spent over a decade in power having banned all opposition. The Sierra Leone Action Network on Small Arms (SLANSA) deployed 35 local and international election non-violence activists and election observers across Sierra Leone to spread the message of "Ballot Not Bullets" during the election. Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma has now been sworn in as Sierra Leone's President
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Closure of arms marketing unit after public campaign

1 September, 2007 - 01:00
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) welcomed the Prime Minister's announcement that the Defence Export Services Organisation (DESO) is to be shut down. The news follows a high-profile campaign by CAAT and other groups for the closure of DESO, a Government unit whose purpose is to promote sales for private arms companies, despite being funded with taxpayers' money. CAAT hopes that with the closure of DESO, the undemocratic power of arms companies in the UK will be brought to an end.
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EDO protest success

1 September, 2007 - 01:00
The protest camp against Brighton-based bomb-builders EDO resisted police eviction attempts and campaign spokesperson Sarah Johnson said the camp "has shown EDO MBM that the campaign is growing stronger and that we will continue to exert pressure until the factory closes or converts to civilian production."
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European action to put pressure on Burma

1 September, 2007 - 01:00
A campaign across 15 countries of the EU has called on the EU presidency to do more to support human rights and put Burma on the agenda of Foreign Ministers' meeting on 7 September. The UNHCR has asked for release of the 65-100 peaceful demonstrators protesting about deteriorating living conditions. The draft constitution is apparently designed to stop Aung San Suu Kyi from presidency.
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Julie Christie launches Uncontacted Tribes campaign

1 September, 2007 - 01:00
Survival has started a new campaign to save uncontacted tribes from extinction. A new film, narrated by Julie Chrisite, features new footage of some of the world’s most remote and endangered peoples, who Chriistie said "could be wiped out within the next twenty years unless their land rights are recognised and upheld". In Peru, indigenous groups have rejected a proposed highway owing to effects on uncontacted tribes, who are also vulnerable to oil and gas exploration.
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