Events archive

31.01.2006 The climate change debate hots up: an increasing number of meetings on OneWorld UK's Events page deal with global warming. In the next couple of weeks talks and discussions include Bangladesh and climate change adaptation; Climate change and civil society: who is speaking for whom?; The Dana Pub Guide to Energy and The things we do for energy; Should global warming be one of the top priorities for humanity? - with Tom Burke, Michael Meacher, Prof Bjorn Lomborg and Philip Stott; and Contraction and convergence: global solutions to climate change.

31.01.2006 Stand by for the annual feast of films at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, in London, 15-25 March which promises "a programme of 22 intelligent, inspiring and indispensable feature films and documentaries from 20 countries, articulating many of the human, environmental and geo-political stories of our times."

31.01.2006 Topical tickets: Dr Karma Nabulsi talks about Palestine and The Politics of Democratic Change at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Kirsten Sellars discusses Trying Saddam and Other Dictators: the limits of justice at the London School of Economics this week; and with the Kenya government embroiled in a corruption scandal, the country's former anti-corruption chief, John Githongo, is talking at the Overseas Development Institute in London on 15 February.

30.01.2006 Climate change has moved from being outside the mainstream and is becoming a major public concern, London Mayor Ken Livingstone told a meeting at City Hall last week. “Only eccentrics and the White House resist”, he said. Daniel Nelson reports.

26.01.2006 About $500 billion worth of “dirty money” moves out of developing countries every year, dwarfing official development aid in the other direction, Raymond Baker tells a meeting in London. Temina Moledina reports.

25.01.2006 Solicitor Imran Khan talks about Islamophobia and the role it plays in human rights violations in the post-9/11 and 7/7 world, at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London on 9 March.

20.01.2006 Section 9 of the Asylum and Immigration Act seeks to "influence failed asylum-seekers' to voluntarily return" by withdrawing all state support and threatening to take children of "failed" asylum seekers into care. It has been described as "brutal" and "wholly inappropriate". It is the subject of a conference on 28 January, 11am to 4pm, at Central Methodist Central Hall, Oldham St, Manchester.

18.01.2006 High population growth is a bigger threat to poverty reduction in most African countries than HIV and AIDS, demographer John Cleland told a meeting in London this week. Daniel Nelson reports.

18.01.2006 New forms of partnership to eradicate poverty in Asia will be explored at a conference in London on 6-7 March, organised by the Department for International Development in collaboration with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.

18.01.2006 Why has the US refused to agree to any international agreements connected to global warming? What does this mean for the future of international relations and the earth? London, 1 March.

18.01.2006 Why the human rights and environmental movements must be allies, not adversaries: roundtable, at the London School of Economics, 19 January, 6.30pm.

17.01.2006 We've yet to MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY. So what's next? World Development Movement is hosting a series of public meetings all over the country during March to discuss future actions.

17.01.2006 What was achieved in 2005? How can the momentum be sustained into 2006 and beyond? What are the major issues and challenges that lie ahead? Gareth Thomas, Under-Secretary of State for International Development, speaks at the first meeting in a new series, 26 January, London.

16.01.2006 A campaign to stop the deportation of refugees from Britain to countries at war may be started as a result of a meeting in London last week, reports Daniel Nelson.

16.01.2006 Food production and ownership is under more threat than ever from big business. War on Want brings UK campaigners together with activists from across the world to hear how people are fighting back, London, 25 February.

16.01.2006 NGOs met Britain's executive director to the World Bank and IMF, Tom Scholar, a few weeks ago: this is a summary of the highlights of the meeting.

07.01.2006 The last meeting in a series on Agriculture in Africa: An Effective Route out of Poverty? dealt with whether an abundance of natural resources was an obstacle or a help to development. Read the report.

07.01.2006 With the cost to the US of the Iraq war now put at $1-2 trillion, and the estimated civilian death toll up to 31,348, the timing of Martin Bell's TV polemic - in which he argues that war is no longer a justifiable method of resolving conflicts - looks particularly resonant.

06.01.2006 More than 45 speakers have confirmed their participation in the One World Forum, which takes place on 14-21 January at the University of Warwick. Speakers include Omar Abdullah, former Minister of State for External Affairs, India; Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty; Ruhi Hamid, director of The Rockstar and the Mullahs, and Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK.

04.01.2006 Half the estimated $1 trillion in dirty money that flows across borders every year comes out of developing countries, exacerbating global poverty and inequality. Much of it is solicited and channeled by Western financial institutions and corporations. Raymond Baker, author of Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System, discusses the problem at the Royal Society of Arts in London on 19 January.