Events archive

28.02.2006 Birmingham's Café One, the UK's only Fairtrade music venue, kicks off National Fairtrade Fortnight on 3 March with an evening of musical and cultural collaboration featuring Soweto Kinch and MC Mad Flow.

24.02.2006 One of the themes of the work of photographer Carlos Reyes-Manzo is the difficulties faced by women around the world, reports Rachel Crews. And the difficulties don’t get much grimmer than in Ciudad Juarez and Guatemala City, where hundreds of women have been kidnapped, raped and murdered.

19.02.2006 Under 18? You can’t vote and you can’t drink but… you can be put in detention, denied a place in school, forced to find your own place to live and find a means of supporting yourself, if you are a young accompanied asylum seeker and having your age disputed by authorities. Join Student Action for Refugees on a national day of action on Thursday 23 February.

07.02.2006 The next development-related meetings at St James's Church, Piccadilly, are Human Population Growth is a Bigger Threat than Climate Change, 22 March, and Does Europe Really Care About the South?, 29 March.

03.02.2006 Jeff Zimbalist wanted to make a film “about communities that succeed, that overcome great diversity.” He’s done it, reports Daniel Nelson.

03.02.2006 Shooting Dogs - a new film about the 1994 Rwandan genocide - will be on general release in the UK from 31 March. Filmed in Rwanda and featuring many genocide survivors among the cast and crew, the film seeks to raise awareness of the atrocities.

02.02.2006 It would be nice to think so. On 28 February, Lauren Laverne hosts a night of live music and debate with Ashley Walters, Shlomo, Steve Chandra Savaly and members of AfroReggae, as part of the Control Arms campaign from Amnesty International, Oxfam and International Action Network on Small Arms. Barbican Centre, London.

02.02.2006 Richard Drayton will discusses the history of conflict between Iran and the West and how the British and American public is being manipulated into support for another post-Iraq military campaign, London, 11 March.