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Latest News Please enable JavaScript to view this content. BSN VIDEO LINK: FCO REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS The British Foreign Secretary, Mr David Miliband- in releasing the FCOs annual report on global human rights- says the UK will continue to push for greater human rights in China. DFID MINISTER SEES POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA - 26 March 2008: Gillian Merron, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development, recently visited Johannesburg, South Africa. She gained a first hand view of the depth of poverty and inequality in the country's wealthiest province. NATIONAL SECURITY NOT JUST ABOUT TERRORISM Threats to Britains national security do not only come from the possibility of a terrorist attack, according to a new report published recently by the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr). ippr argues that new frontlines are emerging in the battle to maintain our security and issues including climate change, energy security and disease and bio-security are becoming increasingly important.       DID YOU SERVE IN THE BRITISH ARMED FORCES? All men and women who served in HM Armed Forces before and/or during World War II are entitled to a Veterans Badge.