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29.09.2004 VSO sends people - rather than food or money - to developing countries to share their skills and knowledge. Learn how to become a volunteer on their redesigned website.
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From: Voluntary Service Overseas
Related topics/regions: [Volunteering] [Internet]
29.09.2004 World famous photographer Don McCullin exhibits his latest collection "Life Interrupted" in London, 26 November -10 January 2005. Christian Aid is organising the event.
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From: Christian Aid
Related topics/regions: [Africa] [AIDS] [Culture]
29.09.2004 British taxpayers are subsidising private companies at least £7m a year to use prison labour that some even fail to pay for - Mark Barnsley of Red Pepper reports.
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From: Red Pepper
Related topics/regions: [Labour] [Business] [Civil rights] [Politics]
27.09.2004 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 27 (OneWorld) - Britain's announcement Sunday that it will pay off ten percent of billions of dollars of debt owed to international financial institutions (IFI) by the world's poorest nations is fuelling the hopes of activists worldwide that a comprehensive debt cancellation accord may be concluded on Friday this week.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Aid] [International cooperation] [Debt]
27.09.2004
Anti-Bush protest in Manchester
Anti-Bush protest in Manchester
European analysts believe that last week’s video taped appeal from the kidnapped Briton, Ken Bigley, to the British Prime Minister has put a lot of pressure on Mr Blair and could be potentially more damaging than the scandal over weapons of mass destruction.
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From: Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Iraq] [Governance] [Conflict]
homeless kids, Namibia
23.09.2004 In time for World Habitat Day, the Urban Poverty Group (a network of NGOs, university departments, consultants and other agencies, co-ordinated by Homeless International) invite OneWorld partners and others to participate in "a practitioners' dialogue" on Monday 4th October, London, UK. In the context of rapid urbanisation, urban poverty and local governance are key issues.
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From: Homeless International
Related topics/regions: [Population] [Shelter & housing] [Governance]
Image: homeless kids, Namibia © Adrian Arbib
21.09.2004
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Related topics/regions: [Trade]
21.09.2004
From the United States to Europe and Asia, media reports last week indicate that while President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair remain upbeat about post-war progress in Iraq, politicians, intelligence agents and media analysts across the three continents are of the opinion that the country is descending deeper into chaos as insurgents carry out more attacks daily.
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From: Christian Science Monitor
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Iraq] [Conflict]
20.09.2004 Cabinet and Foreign Office documents suggest that Tony Blair's main aim for invading Iraq really was regime change - rather than the threat of weapons of mass destruction, as he claimed.
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From: Guardian Unlimited
Related topics/regions: [Iraq] [Politics] [Conflict]
16.09.2004 LONDON, UK, September 15, 2004 (ENS) - Immediate action is needed to tackle global warming, "the world's greatest environmental challenge," Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday night. Blair called it a challenge "so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence."
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From: Environment News Service (ENS)
Related topics/regions: [Climate change]
16.09.2004
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Related topics/regions: [Bangladesh] [Brazil] [Mexico]
15.09.2004 U.S. President George W. Bush's closest foreign ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has pledged to press Washington to take the threat of global warming much more seriously.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [United States] [International cooperation]
15.09.2004 Issues surrounding internet governance will be debated in a forum jointly
convened by the Oxford Internet Institute and the Internet Society UK on 24
September 2004 in London.
Event details
Related topics/regions: [ICT] [Governance]
15.09.2004 Add your voice to the millions of others calling for change in 2005. Here are three ways you can get involved with the Make Poverty History campaign.
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From: ActionAid UK
Related topics/regions: [Poverty] [Human rights] [Politics]
ESF 2004
13.09.2004 London is hosting this year’s European Social Forum - the regional gathering of the World Social Forum, 14-17 October. Save your place.
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Related topics/regions: [Development] [Environment] [Health] [Human rights]
Image: ESF 2004
06.09.2004 The 'McLibel' Two set off on Sunday afternoon for Strasbourg and the European Court of Human Rights. The pair famously took on food giant McDonald’s in the 1990s - and on Tuesday they will be challenging the UK government: does it really protect the right of UK citizens to a fair trial and freedom of expression?
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Related topics/regions: [Corporations] [Human rights] [Law]
Anti-war demonstrators fill Manchester's Albert Square
03.09.2004
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From: no organisation
Related topics/regions: [Peace]
Image: Anti-war demonstrators fill Manchester's Albert Square
03.09.2004 Climate change has serious and long-lasting implications for us all. Listed below are some specific impacts of climate change that are affecting Britain right now, and links to more information about them.
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From: Greenpeace UK
Related topics/regions: [Climate change]
Manchester Camp X-Ray
03.09.2004
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From: no organisation
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Cuba]
Image: Manchester Camp X-Ray
03.09.2004 Tracking garbage-collection vans using satellites and mobile phones has made
waste management much easier for the Westminister city council of United
Kingdom. With strict monitoring, garbage collection is frequent and overflowing bins scarce.
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From: Guardian Unlimited
Related topics/regions: [Western Europe] [Communication] [ICT]
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