Full Coverage: United Kingdom

30.06.2008 The British government's emphasis on quick decisions on asylum applications means that individual cases are sometimes not given proper consideration, the UN refugee agency says in a report today.

30.06.2008 The Independent Asylum Commission is calling today for a "New Deal for safe and sure returns" of refused asylum-seekers.

26.06.2008 The lives of humanitarian aid workers will be in the spotlight on 11 and 12 July, when the curtain goes up on Think global, fuck local at London’s Royal Court Theatre.

25.06.2008 The British government does not know whether its direct payment of aid to the governments of developing countries reduces poverty or offers value for money, says a report by MPs.

25.06.2008 Thursday's renewable energy consultation is a golden opportunity for the British government to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and spiralling fuel prices, says a leading environmental group.

24.06.2008 Ahead of a key House of Lords hearing, Sean Carey reflects on the disgraceful way Britain annexed a group of islands and dislodged a people to give the US an airbase.

24.06.2008 The World Development Movement publishes a "shocking new map and data" that it says clearly shows the potential effect of climate change in Kent.

23.06.2008 Campaigners today demonstrated outside British fashion retailer Primark’s flagship store in London amid claims that workers producing its clothes overseas face poor wages and conditions.

21.06.2008 A new Indian writing talent returns to London: Anupama Chandrasekhar. Her play, Free Outgoing, which played here in 2007, is being staged again at the Royal Court in Sloane Square.

21.06.2008 Pete Postlethwaite stars in climate change documentary from the director of McLibel and the Oscar-winning producer of One Day In September.
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21.06.2008 Londoners will soon be able to get off the tube at King’s Cross and walk into a Palestinian refugee camp.

20.06.2008 Remember Saro-Wiwa is a day of contemporary African films and documentaries at Trinity Buoy Wharf on 28 June, in support of the "Africa at the Pictures" festival at the Rich Mix cinema.

19.06.2008 Coming soon: Think global, fuck local, a play that looks at the private lives of UN and NGO workers; Image, two pieces based on interviews with British Muslims; and Midnight Revolutions, exploring what it means to live in today's Cuba, 50 years after the Revolution.

17.06.2008 The way the US and Britain are tackling terrorism is entirely wrong, former Lebanon hostage Terry Waite said at the opening of an exhibition of artworks made by Muslims detained under Britain’s controversial anti-terror legislation.

17.06.2008 The way the US and Britain are tackling terrorism is entirely wrong, former Lebanon hostage Terry Waite said in London this week.

15.06.2008 States that participated in the US-led invasion of Iraq should take steps to alleviate the suffering of the 4.7 million people displaced by the conflict and must stop sending people back as the country is unsafe, says Amnesty International.

14.06.2008 It's Refugee Week, with a variety of events, including a mock refugee camp In London's Trafalgar Square on Tuesday, Asylum Speakers Speak Out, and a rare opening of the cash-strapped museum of migration.

13.06.2008 It’s a great idea: a play about a Ukrainian who comes to Britain to find work and a better life, loses his job as a result of a police raid on a Scottish fish-processing plant and sets out to build up his own business providing cheap labour.

12.06.2008 Children’s television in the UK is overwhelmingly dominated by North American programmes and mainstream coverage of the wider world is declining, according to a report published today.

10.06.2008 A leading children's charity has expressed shock at government figures showing that the number of children living in poverty has increased by 100,000 in the last year.