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Climate Fight in Every Continent! Also reports from Egypt * Spain * Indonesia * Venezuela * UK * Zimbabwe * Papua

This report is from September, 2017 concerning sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy in Australia. Its conclusions are relevant to the recent report on abuse by over 300 priests and the abuse and coverup by the bishops in Pennsylvania.

Here are seven cardinal principles that could guide an action campaign against obesity, based on lessons that have proved successful in advocacy for tobacco control.

The so-called, undeclared "war" we have been dragged into is the product of self-righteous, panicky people with an exaggerated sense of persecution and no ability to look objectively at history. That is, they are paranoid. Because of their bizarre views, paranoid people cause trouble, then they deny responsibility and use the victim's defensive reaction to justify further aggression. That is exactly the position of the West vis-a-vis the Muslim world.

Almost a decade of bruising debate has led to the absence of any serious policy alternative and paralysis over the way forward

Refugee Council says new category would protect those fleeing the effects of global warming and warns Australian government to prepare for thousands forced from low-lying Pacific islands.