Rice is king — the food staple of the world. It is also a political lightning rod and the newest battleground in the GM crop war. Golden rice, created in the late 1990s, offers a lifeline to millions of children that die each decade ...
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Consumers and activists across Europe are mobilizing on the streets and on social media this week to ask major high street fashion brands to support a minimum wage increase for garment workers in Cambodia. To bring the shocking reality of ...
Tags: Campaigners, Fashion Brands, Wage Rise
Playmobil has responded to campaigners who said its 'Bank with Safe' play-set sends out the wrong message to children. Danny Bryan, chairman of Communities Against Gun and Knife Crime, said the toy was "horrendous" as it includes a ...
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The UK's biggest solar energy farm is to be built on farmland in New Romney and will occupy a 114-acre site on agricultural land at Sycamore Farm in Millbank Lane. Ranks of photovoltaic cells – technically known as an array - will ...
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The Ethiopian government is blocking access to the Tor Network that enables online anonymity, according to Reporters Without Borders. Tor client software routes internet traffic through a worldwide volunteer network of servers to conceal ...
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Privacy campaign group Europe vs. Facebook has threatened to take the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to court if it is not satisfied with the DPC's final responses to its 22 complaints about Facebook's privacy policies, and appealed for ...
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The government's controversial Draft Communications Data Bill, which aims to allow unparalleled interception of data about UK citizens' online communications and voice calls, needs to go back to the drawing board, according to Deputy Prime ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been slammed by disabled charities for awarding more than £540m in contracts to Atos and Capita to test the eligibility of disabled people receiving benefits. The DWP has awarded three ...
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A US court has ordered Twitter to release old tweets and other details of a user arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. The micro-blogging firm refused at first, saying the tweets were owned by users and not Twitter. ...
Tags: Twitter, US court, old tweets, Occupy Wall Street, micro-blogging firm
UK-PLASA 2012 has announced a new,free-to-attend Professional Development Programme-confirming its position as one of the largest knowledge-sharing events in Europe. Created to encourage the exchange of important ideas,the new Pro ...
The mother of hacker Gary McKinnon marked the end of a traumatic chapter of their lives when she give thanks to all those who helped their 10-year campaign against a US order for his extradition to face charges for hacking federal ...
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From a sustainability standpoint, 2012 might be characterised as a year when the world went backwards - or at a pinch stayed still - but the food industry moved forward. There are plenty of campaigners who would beg to differ on the ...
Tags: CSR, Industry, Agriculture Food
Jeremy Hunt's promise in 2010 that the UK would lead Europe with its broadband infrastructure within five years raised a few eyebrows. No one was against the sentiment of rolling out broadband to every home in the UK by 2015 – even ...
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Campaigners have slammed the government’s draft proposals to for its Communications Data Bill, which will make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails, phone calls and internet activity. The bill will now be ...
Christmas shoppers stand to be taken by surprise this month as campaigners take action in shopping centers around Europe to raise awareness of poverty wages of Cambodian garment workers. With these 'fashion mobs', they pressure H&M, Inditex ...
Tags: Christmas, poverty wage, garment, Cambodia