MEDIA DIGEST, 6 October: Mandelson, child rights and a fundraising fatality

Third Sector Online, 6 October 2008

Third Sector's round-up of today's top stories, including War on Want's attack on the new business secretary, Unicef's call for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to be incorporated into British law and the fundraising cyclist killed in a road accident

Anti-poverty charity attacks Mandelson appointment War on Want has expressed "grave concern" at the appointment of former EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson as Britain's new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. It claimed the Global Europe strategy introduced by Mandelson during his time in Brussels had been...

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