German firm under fire for Thalidomide ‘apology’
A campaigner who went on hunger strike to win compensation for thalidomide victims yesterday branded a long-awaited apology by the manufacturer of the drug this weekend as "useless" if it now fails to...
View ArticleTokyo buys disputed islands
Tokyo agreed to buy a group of islands disputed with China from their private owners yesterday, prompting an angry rebuke from China's President, Hu Jintao, who warned against such an "illegal"...
View ArticleNew York federal appeals court hears latest Defense of Marriage Act case
Edith Windsor’s case is one of several challenges winding their way through US courts for possible supreme court hearing An 83-year-old marriage equality campaigner was at New York’s federal appeals...
View ArticleU.S. chef Dan Barber says California foie gras ban is ‘bad idea’
Award-winning US chef Dan Barber said Tuesday that California’s ban on French speciality foie gras was a “bad idea” that would have no effect on improving food sustainability. A well-known campaigner...
View ArticlePakistani girl shot by Taliban defied threats for years
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl campaigner shot by the Taliban had defied threats for years, believing the good work she was doing for her community was her...
View Article[Ticker] Nobel peace prize might go to EU
Norwegian broadcasters NRK and TV2 have tipped the EU as a potential 2012 Nobel peace prize winner, to be announced on Friday morning. Belarusian dissident Bialiatski, Russian activists Alekseyeva,...
View ArticleCountess of Wemyss winning support to change world’s drug laws
The proud owner of a country estate and an aristocratic title, Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, might seem an unlikely campaigner for the reform of laws criminalising recreational drugs....
View ArticleInside Story Americas – Is the US coal industry in trouble?
http://www.youtube.com/v/glivroB-V2U?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Original article: Inside Story Americas – Is the US coal industry in trouble?
View ArticleAnonymous hacks MIT after death of Aaron Swartz
Hactivist group attacks university after suicide of Internet campaigner, who faced 35 years in jail for stealing academic documentsRead More
View ArticleOman – Flurry of prosecutions and convictions in Oman
Read in Arabic The Omani blogger and human rights campaigner Saeed Jaddad, arrested on 14 January, was released three days ago on the orders of Sultan Qaboos after posting bail. According to the Gulf...
View ArticleHacker group Anonymous claims responsibility for government website takeover
Group claims to have taken over U.S. Sentencing Commission's website to protest the prosecution of Aaron Swartz Hacker group Anonymous claimed to have taken over the website of the U.S. Sentencing...
View ArticleHacker group Anonymous targets government website
Group claims to have taken over U.S. Sentencing Commission's website to protest the prosecution of Aaron Swartz Hacker group Anonymous claimed to have taken over the website of the U.S. Sentencing...
View ArticleShould domestic cats be eradicated?
Campaigner Gareth Morgan claims domestic cats in New Zealand are a menace to wildlife, and should be more strictly controlled. Cat lover Tom Cox fights his feline friends’ corner Last week Gareth...
View ArticleDonald Trump threatens creator of ‘Dump Trump’ campaign with $25 million lawsuit
Donald Trump is threatening an online internet campaigner with a $25m lawsuit over a campaign to encourage Macy’s to drop Trump’s products from its shelves and his face from its advertising. Angelo...
View ArticleGoogle raises privacy fears as personal details are released to app developers
Campaigner says tech giant’s policies don’t make it clear that Google Play users who buy apps give over information Google could face a third privacy row in a two years, after a leading campaigner...
View ArticleRecovered portrait of early English feminist to be shown at Dutch art fair
Lady Anne Clifford is still celebrated as a campaigner for women’s rights A lost, original portrait of Lady Anne Clifford, one of the first English aristocrats to demand equal land rights with men...
View Article88-year-old peaceful activist wins surveillance database fight
John Catt, who has no criminal record, wins legal action to have records deleted from police database of suspected extremists Three appeal court judges have ruled that police violated the human rights...
View ArticleAustralian lawyer to run ‘serious’ Assange senate campaign
Assange’s brand new political party, set up as part of its creator’s bid to become an Australian senator in September 2013 elections representing the state of Victoria, has been open for membership...
View Article‘Assange chances very good in Australian senate election’
Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK for the past nine months, but that hasn't dampened his political aspirations. The whistleblower has just appointed high-profile campaigner...
View ArticleCovered at Reason 24/7: Obama Says He Needs Nancy Pelosi as Speaker
The 2016 race for president may already be getting under way, but there’s a more imminent election in 2014, and the campaigner-in-chief is in California today raising money for that effort, and, by...
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