Funding boycott of group is urged
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VATICAN CITY -- A Vatican cardinal said yesterday that Roman Catholics shouldn't contribute to Amnesty International because the group adopted a policy calling for access to abortion services for women under certain circumstances.
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MPs urge a rethink of the government's refusal to split the assessment of special needs from its funding.
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Britain&#39;s leading scientific institution said it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty banning human cloning.
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Outrage!, a gay rights group, is protesting against the Music of Black Orgin awards for refusing to remove reggae artists who allegedly use homophobic lyrics from their shortlist published on Tuesday (August 24).
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The Royal Society, the UK's premier group of scientists, has written to the British arm of energy giant ExxonMobil, demanding the company withdraw support for groups that attempt to undermine the consensus relating to climate change, a newspaper has reported.
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Urgent action to tackle a rise in anti-Semitism in the UK is being called for by a cross-party group of MPs.
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A coalition of 125 scientific and patients' groups urged the United Nations on Wednesday to reject a global ban on stem cell research sought by the Bush administration and more than 50 other countries.
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Academics have backed calls for a wide-ranging debate on a boycott of Israeli universities.
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A powerful group of Sunni Muslim clerics called Tuesday for a boycott of national elections set for late January to protest the US-led attack against the Sunni insurgent stronghold Fallujah.
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Group denounced for supporting "anti-semitism, racism and xenophobia" appears set to enter parliament.
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Transplant shortage means objectors should have to opt out in writing, Liam Donaldson says.
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A pressure group is formed to urge Hong Kong's government to act on air quality amid warnings over costs to the economy.
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Money lying dormant in bank accounts should be used to support groups fighting deprivation, a report says.
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David Livingstone says the idea behind the economic boycott he's organizing is simple: If people don't show up at work or buy things, companies lose money. As he sees it, that's money the Bush administration can't tax, and can't use to run the war in Iraq, protect polluters or chip away at the Constitution.
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Investor groups sounded alarms yesterday after it emerged that a foundation with ties to a pair of well-heeled business donors and an executive battling civil charges had funded a controversial new report seeking to slash corporate regulation.
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Consumer groups call one-day pasta-buying boycott in protest at increasing costs that have seen its price rise by almost 20%.
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Â· Oil revenues fund ethnic cleansing, says campaign Â· Barclays and Church of England among targets