San Francisco - As the world celebrated the Valentine’s Day, the international human rights organisation, Global Exchange, launched a grassroots Fair Trade Cocoa Campaign to pressure the chocolate industry to take substantial steps to help end modern day child slavery and poverty wages in the production of cocoa.
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After renewed violence in the West Bank left six Israeli soldiers dead, Israel responded with a large scale retaliatory raid on Palestinian areas which killed ...
Interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai reassured his country and the international community that his administration remained "fully united" despite last weeks ass...
Geneva -- The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) recently released
a report on human trafficking from and through the Balkans, calling for steppe...
In Syria prospects of ending the crisis look bleak, with the UN Security Council struggling to agree on an appropriate response. The Assad regime?s brutal crackdown, including shelling of central city Homs, shows no sign...
In Iraq, the official withdrawal of the last U.S. combat troops, nearly nine years after the invasion, was quickly followed by a political crisis. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for the country?s top Sunni politician,...
The Democratic Republic of Congo?s presidential and parliamentary vote went ahead on 28-30 November, after a campaign marred by violence and amid allegations of rigging and mismanagement. Political rallies were banned in the wake of...
Deadly clashes between government forces and the insurgent Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) broke out in the troubled southern Philippines in October.
In Sudan a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) offensive in Blue Nile state, and renewed clashes in Southern Kordofan between the SAF and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, fuelled fears of a return to civil war.