Events archive

24.10.2006 The Lady of Burma, "a powerful and moving play about Aung San Suu Kyi", is being staged at the Old Vic in London on 12 November, in aid of the Burma Campaign.

13.10.2006 The film Black Gold has sparked Ethiopia to demand urgent reform in international trade relations with Africa. The film exposes "how the $80 billion global coffee industry reaps the spoils of overpriced lattes and cappuccinos while impoverished growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice."

12.10.2006 A blind Eritrean youth worker...a Muslim Somali advisor to the Mayor of London... a Roma "Bend it like Beckham" footballer...a Jewish professor...a Kurdish mother of two who escaped from Saddam Hussein's chemical attacks...an Iraqi doctor who set up a food factory that now employs 30 people.
Hear their stories and explore the contribution refugees make to London in a new exhibition.

08.10.2006 A National Climate March will be held in London on 4 November, part of a day of international protest on the Saturday before the Nairobi Climate Talks (6-17 November). The aim is to stage the biggest ever climate-focused demonstrations in the UK and internationally.

06.10.2006 With nearly 200 speakers from the world of politics, business, media and academia, the Battle of Ideas festival in London on 28-29 October promises more trenchant debate than Westminster has seen in years.
Environmentalists will face stiff opposition from Cheapflights boss David Soskin who recently labelled greens "ignorant, reprehensible snobs", and UK and US human and civil rights campaigners Wendy Kaminer and Michael Mansfield will question whether human rights legislation distracts from the true exercise of democratic self-government.