The Green Party in England and Wales says the world needs to wake up to climate change and make firm commitments at the upcoming Durban summit.

British government policy puts food companies’ profits before the needs of the world’s poor, says the anti-poverty charity, War on Want

The Howard League for Penal Reform has revealed that the imprisonment of women in the UK separates at least 17,000 children from their mothers every year.

Five hundred Israeli academics and intellectuals recently signed a petition supporting the Palestinian statehood bid: so will the 66th Session of the UN General Assembly decide whether ‘Palestine’ becomes fact or stays fiction - and what kind of fact or fiction? Dr Harry Hagopian explores the background to the much-written-about upcoming UN vote.