LSW this year is set for 3-17 June with even more events about greener living in the capital. So many in fact (it is hoped), that a special service has been set up so you can get details of those that you are interested in sent to a mobile phone.
11 June, 2007 - 01:00
to stop an Irish motorway from destroying the ancient Hill of
Tara. The hill has been added to the "crisis list" of the World Monument Fund putting it among the world's 100 most-endangered heritage sites.
11 June, 2007 - 01:00
after thousands of people demonstrated in four cities and there was growing condemnation from journalists around the world. The increased control over the media had been extended to to give the state broadcasting authority more powers to shut down TV stations and increase the powers of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulation Authority.
6 June, 2007 - 01:00
to live up to their promises. According to a new Social
Watch Report the G8 are distancing the poorest countries even
further from satisfying the basic minimum needs of their citizens.
5 June, 2007 - 01:00
In Peebles Valley, a small rural community in eastern South Africa, tin cans link the people of this community with each other, and the wider world. An Aids clinic where 2,000 patients receive treatment has long had a satellite dish to access its online database, but until recently the idea of making contact just over the hill was a different story.
31 May, 2007 - 01:00
A British journalist has produced an online case study of water pollution and corporate irresponsibility in Illinois. Alistair
Siddons describes the story from both within and outside Chemetco, a copper-refining company which was responsible for some of the worst ever pollution in the US.
31 May, 2007 - 01:00
The Green Party has called for a boycott of the UK's 2007 census pilot because it is being run by US weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.
31 May, 2007 - 01:00
While British press concentrates on one missing Euopean girl, we are reminded that 26,000 young girls in Uganda have been abducted since the start of the civil war, mostly to rbecome child brides to members of the "Christian fundamentalist terrorists", the Lord's Resistance Army. Suggestions how to help:
26 May, 2007 - 01:00
US fears of 'the other', Islamic fundamentalism, have also resulted in the destruction of the first fragile peace in Somalia, say commentators. "A huge campaign must be launched to press western governments to end this slaughter, which is almost entirely the work of those in control of the country" wrote Salim Lone in The Guardian.
24 May, 2007 - 01:00
Reporters Without Borders regrets that a bill passed by parliament on 4 May allowing the authorities to block websites with content deemed to have insulted the memory of the Turkish republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was signed into law by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer on 22 May.