08/04/2004   Buying the rights to pollute the environment can help save it!
08/04/2004   Plans for Britain's biggest quarry finally ended.

FoE Scotland report on the withdrawal of plans by the French aggregate company, Lafarge Aggregates.

 08/04/2004   Rwanda is marking the 10th anniversary of the 1994 genocide.

Visit the following links for fuller coverage:
Rwanda site - memorial in pictures
Official website of Rwanda
UNICEF
Criminal Tribunal
Human Rights Watch: Uprooting the rural poor in Rwanda
Guardian report: Peace but no reconciliation
02/04/2004   Biotech firm ditches GM maize plans

This means that GM crops are unlikely to be grown in the UK until at least 2008.

 02/04/2004   Sellafield 'failing to comply'

Sellafield could face stiff penalties for not meeting stringent European Union (EU) rules on nuclear waste.

 02/04/2004   Privacy International news -

thanks from PI for support and for signing the letter to the ICAO on biometric travel documents.
02/04/2004   Madrid 'blueprint' is a dodgy document

- press claimed it to be an Al-Qaeda plot for Madrid - it was actually about Iraq...

 02/04/2004   Should the United Nations run the Internet?

A summit last week about how best to run the Internet ended with members calling for more UN control.

 26/03/2004   Army patrols tense Ivorian city:

25 people were killed in the main Ivory Coast city of Abidjan after security forces stopped a banned opposition march going ahead.