by Sean Reilly | Jul 9, 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that Robert Mugabe’s regime was ‘illegitimate’ and had ‘blood on its hands’. He was speaking at the close of the three-day G8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan, today. There should be “no safe haven, no place to hide for the criminal cabal...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 9, 2008
Money given by wealthy nations to help the developing world combat climate change should not be administered by the World Bank, says the UK-based international development agency Christian Aid. The NGO says it should instead be handled by the United Nations Framework...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 8, 2008
The Pentagon has announced that the US military will continue to use and export even the most unreliable cluster bombs over the next decade. The policy decision comes shortly after 111 countries, including major NATO allies, agreed to a global treaty banning cluster...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 8, 2008
The G8 leaders have been criticised today for failing to make a breakthrough in critical climate change talks. Discussions about how to reduce greenhouse gases came on the second day of the summit on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. The world’s leaders did little more...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 8, 2008
At a meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, the Council of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has called on its member churches to advocate for the removal of discriminatory travel and entry restrictions, and similar examples of stigmatizations to people living with HIV. “We...
