The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has sold its £1.9 million stake in blue chip Indian mining company, Vedanta, due to 'serious concerns' about its approach to human rights and the environment, particularly in the Indian state of Orissa.
A report published yesterday shows that the Government needs to do more if it is to achieve its goal of eradicating child poverty from the UK by 2020, campaigners have said.
Representative's of Britain's armed forces are reacting with fury to a report which says that some of their recruitment advertising is giving young people, in particular, a misleading and glamourised picture of military life.
An independent inquiry into destitution amongst people refused asylum has exposed the 'appalling and inhumane' conditions created by Government policy.
A major charitable trust has disposed of a £2 million shareholding in the company Reed Elsevier, because of its concerns over the company's involvement in promoting arms sales, reports Quaker Peace and Social Witness - part of the Society of Friends in the UK.