It could never, never, never happen here in Britain. No company would ever be allowed to operate in as negligent a way as Union Carbide did in Bhopal , India. And if there were ever a chemical disaster of a comparable scale here –...

South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, announced on World Aids Day, 1 Dec. 2009, that there would be a new policy to address the AIDS crisis in his country . He wants to move on from the political inertia on the issue and show a...

Defectors from North Korea have signed a petition to the International Criminal Court. They allege crimes against humanity and demand that the North Korean government is prosecuted . North Korea is thought to have at least five...

Given the prevalence of the crime of rape and the disastrously low conviction rape (only about 6.5% of reported rapes currently lead to a rapist getting jailed), the creation of a special unit within the Metropolitan Police to...

One third of all recorded cluster bomb casualties are children. Yet despite efforts to ban these indiscriminate weapons, 138 banks and other financial institutions continue to invest over US$20 billion in companies that produce them...