More than 750 plaintiffs are suing Johns Hopkins University over its role in a series of medical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s and 1950s during which subjects were deliberately infected with syphilis, gonorrhoea and other infections as part of study into sexually transmitted diseases (STD) without their consent.

Former president Mary Robinson announced plans today to establish a new charity to put human rights at the heart of the climate change agenda.

THE announcement that former UN secretary general Kofi Annan is to lead a campaign that aims to put Africa’s 180 million small farmers at the forefront of development is to be welcomed.