Brown slated over ‘cynical’ poverty event

British prime minister Gordon Brown today faces heavy criticism for launching his Business Call to Action on global poverty alongside corporations that have been widely attacked for deepening poverty and undermining human rights. The attack comes from the charity War...

UK mining companies complicit in abuse of poor says report

British mining corporations supported by the UK government, such as Vedanta Resources, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, are complicit in human rights abuse while making huge profits in developing countries. This charge is made today by the anti-poverty charity War on Want...