Full Coverage: Northern Europe

31.08.2007 “Whether you’re educated or employed, you’re regarded as untouchable. Whether you’re in London or India, you’re untouchable.” That is the reality of caste discrimination – it exists everywhere, explains Maria Dass, a member of the Dalit community in London.

30.08.2007 Cheap school uniforms sold in major UK supermarkets are being produced by women workers in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka earning as little as five pence (10 US cents) per hour and working over 70 hours per week, according to a new report.

26.08.2007 A free day out in the park with a wealth of information on sustainable urban living, health and energy, with speakers, poets, great DJs, craft and campaign stalls, music, local food, activities for kids and live acts all powered by working examples of renewable energy. It's the Urban Green Fair, London, 9 September.

23.08.2007 A British court's bar on the return of asylum-seekers to the Democratic Republic of Congo until it was proved safe to do so was welcomed by the Refugee Council. which said the case should never have gone to court.

22.08.2007 Despite countless global impediments to women's political participation and representation, activists are working tirelessly to secure unbiased opportunities for election and equal rates of political representation for women and men alike.

22.08.2007 John Stewart - banned from taking part in the recent climate change protest at London's Heathrow Airport by a court injunction won by airport operator BAA - reflects on the success of fellow campaigners in his absence.
From: Index On Censorship

21.08.2007 Following a deal between London Mayor Ken Livingstone and the Venezuelan oil company PetrÓleos de Venezuela Europa, a scheme was launched yesterday which will give half-priced bus travel to up to 250,000 low-income Londoners.
From: Mayor of London

21.08.2007 Chicago Bulls star Luol Deng is back in Britain to try and help his adopted country win a place in the 2012 London Olympics - and support the UN refugee agency's campaign to open up sports and education opportunities for millions of young refugees around the world.

16.08.2007 The International Slavery Museum opens in Liverpool on 23 August.

16.08.2007 British tourists are being urged to be vigilant about buying wildlife souvenirs this summer when travelling abroad, as part of attempts to save endangered species.

15.08.2007 When a well-behaved Indian girl is filmed with a boy in her classroom, the video clip spreads like a virus. Transmitted from person to person it infects firstly the local community and then seemingly the entire country with a burning moral outrage. An Indian play comes to London, 8-24 November.

15.08.2007 STOCKHOLM, Aug 14 (IPS) - The world is on the verge of "a new and more serious era of water scarcity" than ever before, is the ominous warning coming out of an international water conference here.

12.08.2007 Calls have been made for more environmental education in the college curriculum in Britain.

11.08.2007 Life After Scandal takes you behind the closed curtains and beyond the reach of the telephoto lenses to explore our paparazzi-infested world from the other side, as those implicated in some of the most notorious scandals of recent years talk frankly about the events which transformed their lives: Hampstead Theatre, London, 20 September-20 October.

This new verbatim play

11.08.2007 Life After Scandal takes you behind the closed curtains and beyond the reach of the telephoto lenses to explore our paparazzi-infested world from the other side, as those implicated in some of the most notorious scandals of recent years talk frankly about the events which transformed their lives: Hampstead Theatre, London, 20 September-20 October.

This new verbatim play

11.08.2007 Life After Scandal takes you behind the closed curtains and beyond the reach of the telephoto lenses to explore our paparazzi-infested world from the other side, as those implicated in some of the most notorious scandals of recent years talk frankly about the events which transformed their lives: Hampstead Theatre, London, 20 September-20 October.

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08.08.2007 COPENHAGEN, Aug 8 (OneWorld) - Throughout the past century, Scandinavian countries have been internationally respected for keeping their doors open to those fleeing wars and bloody conflicts at home. But recent policy decisions on immigration and asylum indicate that change may be in the offing.

06.08.2007 I For India is unassuming, warm, tender, funny, moving filmmaking; social history about Britain and India, family, migration and identity.