http://www.choike.org a portal on Southern civil societies http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/73.html "Justice for Darfur" is a campaign supported by human rights organisations worldwide, calling on the international community to ensure the prompt arrest and surrender to the International Criminal Court of the persons charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur, Sudan. The campaign is launched on the first anniversary of the issuance of the arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC). http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/4517.html We are told that we live in the 'digital revolution' era and that we can communicate across the globe as we never could before. In fact, restrictive copyright laws still act as a serious barrier to sharing and learning from each other. This is particularly true in countries of the South where three quarters of the population live. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1438.html Reports of a ‘global food crisis’ have multiplied in recent weeks, with UN agencies, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) joining NGOs and governments in voicing their concern at spiralling food costs. Higher food prices mean different things to different people, but it is the poorest (urban and rural poor in the South) who will suffer the most, and inequality is likely to rise. The impact on individual households has received far less coverage than concerns about riots. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/2035.html Evidence from Latin America suggests that good trade performance and trade policy reforms alone cannot deliver growth and poverty reduction. If trade is to have a significant impact on broad-based growth and poverty reduction across the region, a raft of complementary policies, investment programmes and social protection measures needs to be designed, debated and implemented. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1872.html Factory owners complain of audit fatigue and that different brand buyers are demanding compliance with different code of conduct standards. Trade unions and NGOs criticize brands for adopting weak codes with imprecise standards as a mere public relations exercise. Brand buyers complain that the high standards demanded by unions and NGOs are not achievable, at least over the short term. One of the major weaknesses of voluntary codes of conduct has been the lack of consistency in code provisions and the lack of consensus among companies and stakeholders on the minimum labour standards that companies should be expected to meet. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1449.html At least 1,200 people were executed in 2007 and many more were killed by the state, in secret, in countries including China, Mongolia and Viet Nam. The figures come from Amnesty International's yearly statistics, which say that at least 1,252 people were executed in 24 countries and at least 3,347 people were sentenced to death in 51 countries. Up to 27,500 people are estimated to be on death row across the world.