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Articles
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Japan Recalls Candy After 4 Children Die
A Japanese company has recalled some of their candy products after four children have died and thousands have been left sick. Tests have found 37 milligrams ... -
Universal Declaration On Animal Welfare Makes Headway In Canada
Animal activists around the world have been working to implement a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare. The Declaration has recently made headway in Canada.
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The Environmental Crisis Is Costing More Than The Economic Crisis
Wall Street has to date lost $1-1.5 trillion, but we are losing natural capital between $2-5 trillion every year.
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The Vatican's Approach to Homosexuality
It's not everyday that the Vatican is called "grotesque" by mainstream publications. But that's what one of Italy's largest newspapers, La Stampa, labeled...
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There is a growing illicit market in Europe where migrant workers and work in 'slave-like situations', especially in the sex and farming industries.
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EU Wants End To Old-Style Bulbs
A European Union report has recommended banning conventional incandescent light bulbs by 2012 to save energy and cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.
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President Robert Mugabe has said Zimbabwe has contained cholera - as the UN and a UK charity warned the deadly outbreak was getting worse.
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EU Leaders Reach New Climate Deal
European Union leaders have reached a deal on a package of measures to fight global warming.
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End unlawful attacks and meet Gaza's emergency needs
Palestinian civilians remain at risk of being killed or injured in the Israeli air strikes and are increasingly lacking adequate medical care and food.
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Market solutions to poverty are very much in vogue. These solutions, which include services and products targeting consumers at the “bottom of the pyramid,”.
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Pirates Constant Menace to Food Lifeline
The high-profile hijacking of US ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates has thrown a spotlight onto the fragile food lifeline.
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Great news for animal welfare advocates: The European Union has voted, 550-49, on a trade ban against seal products.
Blog posts
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Eco Maniac: Carbon, Carbon Everywhere
There's a lot of debate lately about the best method of reducing carbon by monetizing emissions. Basically, there are two camps: carbon tax versus cap and trade. Both plans have their merits; both ...
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You can make all the difference for baby seals
When you look out over the miraculous baby seal nursery on the ice floes of Eastern Canada, it's hard to believe that 275,000 harp seal pups may be killed there in a matter of days. You can't imagi...
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Some Harp Seals will see another day...
European Union Bans Seal Products... Read how this effects the Harp Seals in Canada: http://hsus.typepad.com/wayne/2009/05/eu-seal-ban.html
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The United Nations on Burma: A lion that cannot even roar
The United Nations. Founded in 1945. Promised to the world no war like the one that occurred before will ever happen again. Promotes peace and understanding between nations. Successful in many...
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Undo the Coup Posted on Jun 30, 2009 By Amy Goodman The first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century occurred last Sunday in Honduras. Honduran soldiers roused ...
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WITNESS is holding Seeding trainings in Venice, Italy and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia August 22, 2008 Program Coordinator for Europe and the former Soviet Union Violeta Krasnic trains human rights ac...
