Internationally respected scientists have warned that farmers in the region face particular pressures with growing cash crops - vital for many to supplement subsistence food crops - as a result of global warming in the next few decades, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned on Thursday, 8 November.

Gerhart Baum, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Sudan, has called for documentation to verify how the Sudanese government uses its oil revenues in a report discussed at the UN General Assembly.

A major Canadian oil company was sued for one billion dollars in a New York federal court Thursday for its part in serious human rights abuses committed against the southern population of Sudan where it has been exploring and drilling for oil.

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World population and consumption is rising at a rate that is threatening the wellbeing of people and the planet, a report published last week by the United Nations Population Fund said.