http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us British campaigners against large supermarket developments have hailed as a victory a decision by the Home Secretary to refuse planning permission for a giant new Tesco store in Kirkby, near Liverpool. The plans would have involved a 500,000sq foot retail... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4697298 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:21:28 -0800 The UK government's Minister for the Third Sector, Angela Smith , has in the last week cancelled funding under the Capacity Builders Campaign Research programme. No notice was given or consultation carried out. The cuts have hit 32 small organisations... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4682845 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:46:31 -0800 The government of the Netherlands has agreed to conduct an investigation into the conditions under which Ahava beauty products are manufactured in the illegal Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Shalom in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Ahava has been the subject... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4619649 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:05:37 -0800 Britain ’s trade union movement has voted overwhelmingly to support a boycott of goods made and grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. The motion passed at the 2009 TUC Annual Congress in Liverpool on 17 September... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4186519 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:45:36 -0700 The niece of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to brave checkpoints, soldiers and blistering sun to cycle across the Middle East from October 9, say organisers of the Peace Cycle expedition. Eight-year-old Alexandra Darby will be joined by... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4164702 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:59:38 -0700 A group of climate change protestors who stopped a train full of coal bound for Drax power station in Yorkshire, England have been handed light sentences. Five of the 29 were given 60 hours of community service each. The rest... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4092070 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:17:09 -0700 [person id=5136]Kristin Davis[/person], Sex & The City's 'Charlotte,' has met with international criticism over her sponsorship deal with Ahava cosmetics. Critics of Ahava say that the skincare products originate from an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank, and are... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3889409 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:44:11 -0700 Native Inuit Greenlanders have launched a campaig n asserting their rights over the natural resources of their ancestral home. Traditional small-scale, sustainable gem miners are, they say, being harassed by the Danish Government and a Canadian mining company, preventing them... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3810275 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:18:33 -0700 24th July: Protests are planned around the UK in coming days, opposing the closure of Britain's largest manufacturer of wind turbines. Vestas UK, the subsidiary of a Danish company which is the world's leading turbine manufacturer, employs over 600 people... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3754000 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:11:58 -0700 The Advertising Standards Authority , the body which regulates accuracy and decency in commercial advertisements in the UK, has ruled against a poster campaign by the Israeli Tourist Ministry which campaigners say 'wiped Palestine off the map.' The ASA ruled... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3734483 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:12:16 -0700 Sainsburys, the third largest supermarket chain in the UK, has added Fairtrade certified organic Palestinian olive oil to its shelves. The oil is supplied via Equal Exchange and Zaytoun , the ethical trade pioneers who have sold Palestinian olive oil... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3727363 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:12:34 -0700 Three NGOs campaigning on climate change and related issues, such as poverty and development, have announced plans to take the British Treasury to court over climate change emissions. Fossil fuels campaign group Platform , student development campaign organisation People &... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3667282 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:17:12 -0700 Saturday 11th July Mustafa al Barghouthi, leader of the 'third way' political party the Palestinian National Initiative and a member of the Palestinian parliament, was amongst dozens of demonstrators treated for tear gas inhalation at Bil'in on Friday. Demonstrations are... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3652778 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:06:54 -0700 Monday 6th July, Heathrow, London Adie Mormech, one of the six British Free Gaza boat passengers and crew deported today from an Israeli jail, says he's raring to return. The Free Gaza boat Spirit of Humanity was forcibly boarded by... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3613628 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:08:23 -0700 Today, July 6th, the six British crew and passengers from the FreeGaza boat Spirit of Humanity are expected to land at Heathrow airport at around 13:30. According to FreeGaza movement reports, they were moved from Ramle prison, where they have... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3610572 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:29:44 -0700 Despite the region's conflict-ridden image, a cross-country initiative is drawing new visitors to the Palestinian West Bank. The Abraham Path Initiative , the Palestinian branch of which is called Masar Ibrahim al Khalil, is an international project which retraces the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3607259 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:07:22 -0700 On 24th June the Fairtrade Foundation launched its new certification label for beauty products. The range of inaugural products come from Neal's Yard Remedies , Visionary Soap Co , Lush , Essential Care , Boots and Bubble & Balm ,... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3605244 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:02:25 -0700 Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem have announced a new initiative challenging the building of a $250million Museum of Tolerance on the site of the ancient Mamilla Muslim cemetery close to the Old City. In the latest twist in the five-year... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3599316 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:34:46 -0700 On 3rd July, three people were injured and dozens suffered from tear gas inhalation during the weekly confrontation between protesters and Israeli military personnel at the village of Bil'in . Located on the Israeli Separation Wall between the West Bank... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3596438 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:51:45 -0700 Manchester-based Ethical Consumer magazine, a leading researcher into corporate environmental and social ethics, has called for a boycott of high street brand names associated with environmentally destructive tar sands extraction in Canada. Tar sands, a mixture of sand or clay... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3596223 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:02:39 -0700