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25.08.2009 Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission has issued legal proceedings against the British National Party's constitution and membership criteria, which it claims breach human rights law.
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Protesters: intimidated?
25.08.2009 Half of UK adults believe the police are too heavy-handed or deploy too many officers when dealing with peaceful protests, according to a new poll.
+ Mass Visual Trespass

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From: Christian Aid
Image: Protesters: intimidated? © Gabrielle Hamm
Kwame Kwei-Armah
24.08.2009 Kwame Kwei-Armah’s four-part series retracing Queen Elizabeth’s 1954 royal trip, On Tour With The Queen, is odd but quietly engaging.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related topics/regions: [Fiji] [Sri Lanka] [Uganda] [Geopolitics]
Image: Kwame Kwei-Armah
21.08.2009 "Deep concern" at political developments in the run-up to the much-delayed presidential elections in the internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland has been voiced by the UK-based team coordinating election observers.
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From: Progressio
Related topics/regions: [Somalia]
21.08.2009 Containers of waste which were alleged to have been illegally exported from the UK to Brazil last month are due to arrive at the port of Felixstowe today (Friday).
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Related topics/regions: [Brazil]
Winchester business model lures Maison Blanc
17.08.2009 Adapting to a warmer climate in the UK brings the promise of Mediterranean pleasures. Whilst poor countries will struggle with food production, we can look forward to consuming more of it outdoors.
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Related topics/regions: [Culture] [Climate change]
Image: Winchester business model lures Maison Blanc © Bill Gunyon
Jubilee Debt Campaign
16.08.2009 The G20 Finance Ministers meeting in London on 4 September will be marked by a day of action.
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Related topics/regions: [Activism]
Image: Jubilee Debt Campaign © Jubilee Debt Campaign
14.08.2009 The British Government today took a major step to clean up public life in the Turks and Caicos Islands, following dismissal of a legal challenge to its plans.
+ Britain Suspends Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands
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Related topics/regions: [Turks and Caicos Islands]
Asylum Monologues, an iceandfire production
14.08.2009 A series of plays tackling pressing human rights issues. All performances will be by the group Actors for Human Rights with each play followed by a discussion with the play's writers and human rights campaigners.
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Image: Asylum Monologues, an iceandfire production
11.08.2009 British Foreign Secretary David Miliband should scrap proposals for UK private military companies to police themselves or risk further killings in Iraq and Afghanistan, said a prominent development charity, following reports that a security contractor working for a British private military company shot dead two colleagues in Baghdad.
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From: War on Want
Related topics/regions: [Iraq]
07.08.2009 The Environment Agency has prevented a tanker from leaving the UK on suspicion that it was going abroad for illegal dismantling - the first time the Agency's powers have been used to stop a ship from leaving a British port.
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06.08.2009 Photographer Tim Hetherington’s exploration of Liberia between 2003 and 2007 brings an extraordinary range of characters to life: warlords and presidents, environmental activists and traditional
hunters, political hustlers and democratic visionaries.
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Related topics/regions: [Liberia]
05.08.2009 The launch of Primark’s second biggest UK store in Bristol next week will be marked by a demonstration over the conditions faced by 7p-an-hour workers making its clothes.
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From: War on Want
Related topics/regions: [Bangladesh]
03.08.2009 Immigration proposals unveiled by the British government on Monday are wrong because they target legal rather than illegal migrants and discriminate against people from the Indian subcontinent, according to Keith Vaz, chairman of parliament's home affairs committee.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia]
Aim higher for tough arms controls
03.08.2009 Officials from the UK Government's arms export agency have met Chinese military representatives - even though Beijing is still subject to a European Union military embargo.
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Related topics/regions: [China]
Image: Aim higher for tough arms controls © Oxfam GB
03.08.2009 Environmental campaigners are set to stage a number of protests across central Scotland, which could cause disruption to the coal industry.
+ Scottish climate activists to target coal industry
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Related topics/regions: [Activism] [Climate change]
Organic beef and two veg provided by Hampshire County Council Catering Services
03.08.2009 Despite promises by G8 leaders to prioritise food security, the World Food Programme is in trouble with its budget for 2009. Cuts in school feeding programmes highlight the contrast with school meals provided in richer countries.
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Related topics/regions: [Bangladesh] [Nutrition/malnutrition] [Food] [Aid] [Children]
Image: Organic beef and two veg provided by Hampshire County Council Catering Services
02.08.2009 This short film reveals what sort of people turn up at climate camp and what they get up to. OneClimate
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Related topics/regions: [Environmental activism] [Climate change]

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