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Campaigners Drop Flag Under N.Pole Ice Amid "Cold Rush" Concerns
2013-04-16 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Environmentalists have placed a flag on the seabed under the North Pole to urge protection for the region in a rebuff to Russia which planted a flag in 2007 in a symbolic territorial claim. Four campaigners, backed by Greenpeace, cut a hole in the ice at the North Pole at the weekend and dropped the flag and a capsule with almost 3 million signatures asking for the region to be off-limits to exploitation, Greenpeace said on Monday. A Russian submarine planted a flag on the seabed in the same...
Campaigners hail Novartis ruling
2013-04-01 15:31:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Healthcare campaigners hail India's rejection of a patent bid by Swiss company Novartis for its cancer drug, Glivec, amid industry criticism.
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United Kingdom: No Dash for Gas campaigners set up anti-EDF website
2013-03-10 22:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A group of environmental campaigners being sued for 5m by energy company EDF for occupying one of the company's power plants in October last year has launched a website encouraging EDF customers to switch to alternative providers as a gesture of opposition to the civil action. Members of the campaign group "No Dash for Gas" occupied EDF's gas-fired power plant in West Burton for a week in October last year, protesting against fossil fuels and carbon emissions. Last month, 21 activists pleaded...
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BANGLADESH: Campaigners criticise C&A fire response
2013-03-06 13:38:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Plans by clothing retailer C&A to compensate workers and their families affected by the Tazreen factory fire have been strongly criticised by a pressure group.
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CAMBODIA: Campaigners call on brands to back wage rise
2013-02-20 13:00:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Ahead of talks scheduled to take place next week on a potential rise in the minimum wage for workers in Cambodia's garment and footwear factories, campaigners are urging fashion brands to support an increase.
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