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30.08.2005 Part of east London will become a no-go zone in September as the capital once again plays unwilling host to the world’s largest arms fair.

19.08.2005 Zana Briski began photographing prostitutes in Calcutta's red light district in 1997. Three years later she began teaching photography to the children of the women she met, giving them cameras and encouraging them to document their world. Now a documentary film shows what happened - the children liberated by a new, more hopeful perspective on their lives, Briski battling with social convention and bureaucracy, ICA, London, 2–9, 11–22 September
* Kids With Cameras

19.08.2005 More than a million people are added to the world's population every week, but supplies of fresh water remain finite. Are individual attempts to reduce water usage just a drop in the ocean? Join scientists and policymakers to debate whether the world faces a future that is high and dry, Natural History Museum, London, 25 August

17.08.2005 Ivor Dembina has a peace plan for the Middle East: "I think the Jews should give up the occupied territories, but I think we should hang on to New York." The Anglo-Jewish comedian performs a comic monologue about his travels through Israel, focusing on a first-hand encounter of a clash between peace protestors and the army, 23 August, Hampstead Comedy Club, London.
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10.08.2005 An evening of anti-war films, ranging from the three-minute Merchandising Murder, comparing the price of Bush's merchandise on his website with the cost of the Iraq conflict, to Red Florence, on the first European Social Forum, London, 15 August
Portobello Film Festival

08.08.2005 Do pictures of famine change policy? How many people have to die before a distant event becomes news? Is it possible for the media to present positive images of people in need? Daniel Nelson looks at an exhibition with many questions but no answers.

04.08.2005 To discuss the issues and themes of the Imaging Famine exhibition at the Newsroom in London, there will be an afternoon of lectures and a film screening on 5 September. The programme includes Tafari Wossen on "Ethiopia's Image: can it change?" and David Campbell on "The Pictorial Economy of Disaster: Photographing the Sudan Famine of 1998". Details: Newsroom

03.08.2005 Demonstrate in Parliament Square against the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, which makes unauthorised protests within one kilometre of the Square illegal - and makes people taking part in this action on 7 August liable to arrest.

01.08.2005 The death of Sudanese vice-president John Garang in a helicopter crash threatens to destabilise the fragile peace deal between the government and Southern rebels.
A side-effect of the peace deal was to take pressure off the government to end what has been called ‘the first genocide of the 21st century’, in Darfur, and last week the author of a new book on Darfur said the conflict there had actually been triggered by the North-South peace negotiations.