Full Coverage: Europe

30.01.2009 England People Very Nice is a journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture. And the emerging pattern shows that white flight and anxiety over integration are anything but new.

29.01.2009 While political and business leaders gather in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, campaigning NGOs are gathering in Zurich to expose alleged malpractice by Swiss food giant, Nestlé.

28.01.2009 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s appeal to the World Economic Forum this week threatens to deepen the global economic crisis and cost millions of jobs around the world, a UK development charity has warned.
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28.01.2009 More than 20,000 Indians marched through dense forest to create a 17-kilometre human wall across the holy mountain that provides their livelihood and is now under threat from British mining company Vedanta.

27.01.2009 Sporty fun and games kicks off the public launch of Fairtrade Fortnight on London’s South Bank on Sunday 23 February.

26.01.2009 Caryl Churchil says she wrote Seven Jewish Children – A Play for Gaza (Royal Court Theatre, London, 6-21 February) "as a small response to what has happened in Gaza in the last few weeks.”

25.01.2009 Climate change is now such a pressing problem that “it is both prudent and necessary” to try out geoengineering schemes, the director of London’s Science Museum, Professor Chris Rapley, told a meeting at the Royal Geographical Society.

25.01.2009 Simon Jenkins in the Guardian points out that taxpayers' money is disappearing into a black hole of bank balance sheets instead of reviving the real economy.

24.01.2009 Meetings in London on African and Asian are common, but Latin America gets less of a look-in. Here's one that bucks the trend - a discussion on British connections with Colombian violence.

23.01.2009 New work from Eve Ensler - creator of The Vagina Monologues - is to premiere in London in February in a series of benefit performances as part of the London celebration of "V-Day", the global movement to end violence against women and girls.

21.01.2009 Residents of a Bulgarian village have taken long-standing concerns about the introduction of cyanide technology at a Canadian-led gold mine to their government and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

20.01.2009 With international speakers, films, music, and a chance to learn and practise new skills, 6 Billion Ways is your chance to get inspired and join local and global networks building a better world.

20.01.2009 The British government will produce a White Paper this year on international development in the current economic climate that "will outline our response to the global challenge of securing our common future”, International Development Minister Douglas Alexander told a meeting on climate change and development yesterday.

19.01.2009 A new play, made up of first-hand testimonies of people experiencing homelessness and deprivation in UK today, will be performed during Poverty and Homelessness Action Week (31 January-8 February).

19.01.2009 “In eight years I never spoke to a government minister with a real understanding of the implications of climate change or the backbone to do something about it” – former London Mayor Ken Livingstone at a meeting in London. And: “Giving up meat is more important than giving up your car.”

19.01.2009 International news coverage is in danger of disappearing completely from British television screens in the next four years unless urgent action is taken, according to a new report.

19.01.2009 The biggest threats to human rights in Britain are ignorance and fear, a campaign group for democracy and rights says today, in response to government comments on a new parliamentary report, A Bill of Rights for the UK?

18.01.2009 Your chance to petition the UN to appoint Martti Ahtisaari to mediate for an end to the bloodshed.

17.01.2009 Ecobuild - "the world’s biggest event dedicated to sustainable design, construction and the built environment" - runs at London's Earl's Court on 3-5 March.

16.01.2009 The European Commission should follow up its decision to suspend moves to upgrade political and trade links with Israel by stopping the upgrade process altogether, says a prominent anti-poverty group.
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