EU governments agreed on Monday to "strengthen action to save lives at sea", while Berlin said that funding of Triton would be doubled.
This week in New York, the UN general assembly's special session on HIV/Aids is bringing together world leaders and civil society to strengthen action on HIV/Aids.
Mr Straw told Radio 4's Today programme: "We are looking at whether there are changes in legislation that we can take which are being sought by the police to see whether we can strengthen action against these animal rights extremists.
"The bill will also strengthen action against the criminals involved in this disgusting trade in human beings to prevent them from ruining any further lives".
This is designed to strengthen action plans for prevention and control of NCD and move towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (55).
We believe – and I also very much want to stress this – that this is a field in which it is possible to strengthen action at European level.
Through the European Charter on Counteracting Obesity, Member States in the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared in 2006 their commitment to strengthen action on counteracting obesity and to place this issue high on the political agenda of their governments.
