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In a landmark case a family of gypsies lost their House of Lords appeal that their eviction from a public recreation ground near Leeds breached their human rights.

International Women's Day was marked by anti-riot police dispersing an assembly of women activists and arresting two of their leaders. US State Department and Amnesty International in its 2005 Human Rights Report have strongly criticised the government’s human rights record.

- Women in London ask if IWD has become Maintstreamed and meaningless?, and Undercurrents launch Broad Horizons, a new DVD compilation of Women Videomakers.

The 1996 Lease Law has jeopardized fundamental human rights, and evictions are now taking place with increasing regularity - a Zero Eviction campaign has been launched. Read the UN-AGFE report on the Croatian evictions.

A new research project has been launched to investigate exposure to chemicals in food and the environment and their connection with childhood cancer and immune disorders. The NewGeneris project will involve research at the University of Bradford.

authorities have arrested three journalists working for the second largest selling daily, "The Standard", seized and burnt copies of the 2 March 2006 issue, disabled the newspaper's printing press, confiscated equipment including computers and shut down a broadcasting station, Kenya Television Network (KTN).

reports that eight conflict situations around the world deteriorated in February 2006. Download the report in pdf or text format.

The animal-rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) and six members were convicted in New Jersey with inciting harassment with their Internet postings - 'animal enterprise terrorism'.

Britain has been denied leave by the European Commission to raise the amount of pollution it can create under the EU emissions trading scheme.

Google has denied accusations that its new Chinese-language search engine is operating without a licence.