On the eve of pop singer Alicia Keys' concert in Tel Aviv, campaigners will step up their movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel's occupation of Palestine.

The anti-poverty charity War on Want today blamed David Cameron's failed UK tax policies for undermining prospects of a breakthrough on tackling tax evasion and avoidance at the G8 summit which starts today in Northern Ireland.

As the world's biggest security company, G4S, prepares to face protests at its annual meeting this week, the firm's leaders are today attacked for equipping Israeli prisons where, activists claim, Palestinian children have been tortured. The attack came from the anti-poverty charity War on Want, which also condemns the firm for misinformation that G4S intended to pull out of contracts in illegally occupied Palestine.

Activists will today protest outside Mango and Benetton fashion stores in London's Oxford Street over the retailers' failure to compensate families of workers killed, as well as the injured, after the Bangladesh building collapse.