INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Japan: Back UN Action on Sri Lanka Robust Security Council Measures Urgently Needed to Save Civilian Lives New York, 11 May 2009: Japan needs to “play a more active role” in confronting the worsening humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, four international organisations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Taro Aso [...]

AMSTERDAM, INTERNATIONAL – 6 May 2008 – Greenpeace is calling for the construction permit for the Olkiluoto European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) in Finland – the world’s largest prototype nuclear reactor – to be cancelled, following revelations of severe problems in the design of its electronic safety control systems.   The call comes after a Finnish [...]

Al Jazeera May 6, 2009   http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/05/200955143232389149.html  A United Nations inquiry into the war in Gaza has found that Israel was blame for at least seven direct attacks on UN operations – including schools and medical centres. Missiles, bombs and small arms were all used by Israel against the UN – leading to dozens of deaths. [...]

04 May 2009 AN URGENT APPEAL TO HELP BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA “From the groundbreaking work of Gandhi and King to the ongoing example of the Free Gaza Movement, we can discern the transforming power of nonviolence at a crossroads in our history.” -H.E. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President of the UN General Assembly Dear [...]

By Brandon Keim Wired Science May 1, 2009   http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=84359922162&h=0sFhj&u=dk3Jh&ref=mf   Scientists have traced the genetic lineage of the new H1N1 swine flu to a strain that emerged in 1998 in U.S. factory farms, where it spread and mutated at an alarming rate. Experts warned then that a pocket of the virus would someday evolve [...]

  Dear ONE Member, ONE members around the world put forward an exceptional effort trying to convince the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to sell a small amount of their gold reserves to help developing countries hit hard by the financial crisis. Late last week, anti-poverty campaigner Bob Geldof delivered our petition with over 60,000 signatures [...]

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Nigeria: Seizing the Moment in the Niger Delta Abuja/Dakar/Brussels, 30 April 2009: The Niger Delta risks sliding deeper into conflict and criminality and spreading instability across the Gulf of Guinea, unless Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’Adua responds constructively to recommendations of a key committee. Nigeria: Seizing the Moment in the Niger Delta,* the [...]