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George Monbiot
30.09.2007 George Monbiot is one of the speakers at a meeting on "The issues and actions for climate change" in Bristol, 18 October.
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Image: George Monbiot © Gabrielle Hamm
I For India
29.09.2007 I For India uses the home movies and reel-to-reel tape recordings sent to his family in India by Dr Yash Pal Suri, following his migration to Darlington in 1965.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related topics/regions: [India] [United Kingdom] [Migration]
Image: I For India
Blame it on Fidel
29.09.2007 Anna is a self-confident nine-year-old Parisian girl whose comfortable life is turned upside down in 1970 when her parents get politics – Chilean, pro-Allende politics.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Spain] [Chile] [Media]
Image: Blame it on Fidel
28.09.2007 A group of Christian Aid activists arrive in the capital this weekend at the end of a 1,000 mile Cut the Carbon march from Northern Ireland to London that has brought the issue of climate change to the doorsteps of local people and to businesses and MPs across the country.
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From: Christian Aid
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26.09.2007 On the eve of a replenishment meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, G8 donors were pressed not to follow the poor example set by the UK.
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From: ActionAid UK
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25.09.2007 The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, with help from the international community "seriously inadequate", says a new Amnesty International report.
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From: Amnesty International UK
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Amnesty's 'Unsubscribe' campaign
24.09.2007 To celebrate the launch of Amnesty's campaign, Unsubscribe, Amnesty is inviting bloggers, second lifers, social networkers, activists and anyone with an interest in changing the way the world is changed to an evening of wine, smoothies and stimulating speakers in a two-way conversation.
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From: Amnesty International UK
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Image: Amnesty's 'Unsubscribe' campaign
Sir Anthony Sher
21.09.2007 A tsunami of violence has hit South Africa, writer Andre Brink says on Murder Most Foul, which will be shown on More4 at 9pm on Tuesday.
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From: OneWorld UK
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Image: Sir Anthony Sher
21.09.2007 Greenpeace blogger Nathan explains why Greenpeace has complained to the Market Research Standards Board about the role of the pollsters employed by the government to conduct a public consultation on nuclear power.
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From: Greenpeace UK
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20.09.2007 Among the works at an exhibition at London's ICA in October is a suggestion for a community called Extreme Green Guerillas where animal messengers replace mobile phones and modified urban vermin is preferable to free-range organic chicken.
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Catarina, an Angolan landmine casualty, who has become a member of an auto-rickshaw taxi co-operative, thanks to LARDEF/DPP project
20.09.2007 A double amputee bomb victim who heads an Angolan disability organisation was thrown off a Portuguese airlines flight to London, it was disclosed this week.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Angola]
Image: Catarina, an Angolan landmine casualty, who has become a member of an auto-rickshaw taxi co-operative, thanks to LARDEF/DPP project
‘Rights Here, Rights Now: Recommendations for protecting trafficked children’ (Unicef UK)
20.09.2007 Despite recent UK government moves, significant gaps and inconsistencies remain in protecting trafficked children in Britain, according to a new report launched today.
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From: UNICEF UK
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Image: ‘Rights Here, Rights Now: Recommendations for protecting trafficked children’ (Unicef UK)
19.09.2007 Britain is a society increasingly fractured, with religious extremism on the rise and people becoming disconnected from one another, says the Commission for Racial Equality in its final report.
CRE Executive Summary
Full report
From: Ekklesia
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19.09.2007 Britain, the world’s third largest user of lethal cluster bombs over the last 10 years, has renamed one of its two remaining cluster munitions in an effort to beat an expected worldwide ban next year, according to a group of humanitarian organisations.
From: Landmine Action
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Stop GM campaign
18.09.2007 Virtually all GM crops are grown in vast monocultures for animal feed and the only beneficiaries are the biotech companies that own the patents and a few big farmers, a leading environmental group said in response to reports that the UK Government is backing a new push on GM crops.
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From: Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland
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Image: Stop GM campaign
16.09.2007 Films from 43 countries feature in this year's London Film Festival, 17 October-1 November, as well as documentaries that include Kim Longinotto's Hold Me Tight Let Me Go, on a school for violent and traumatised youngsters, and The Champagne Spy, Films from 43 countries feature in this year's London Film Festival, 17 October-1 November, as well as documentaries that include Kim Longinotto's Hold Me Tight Let Me Go, on a school for violent and traumatised youngsters, and The Champagne Spy, Films from 43 countries feature in this year's London Film Festival, 17 October-1 November, as well as documentaries that include Kim Longinotto's Hold Me Tight Let Me Go, on a school for violent and traumatised youngsters, and The Champagne Spy.Films from 43 countries feature in this year's London Film Festival, 17 October-1 November, as well as documentaries that include Kim Longinotto's Hold Me Tight Let Me Go, on a school for violent and traumatised youngsters, and The Champagne Spy.Films from 43 countries feature in this year's London Film Festival, 17 October-1 November, as well as documentaries that include Kim Longinotto's Hold Me Tight Let Me Go, on a school for violent and traumatised youngsters, and The Champagne Spy.Films from 43 countries feature in this year's London Film Festival, 17 October-1 November, as well as documentaries that include Kim Longinotto's Hold Me Tight Let Me Go, on a school for violent and traumatised youngsters, and The Champagne Spy, about an undercover Israeli intelligence agent.
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The Mourning Forest, a French-Japanese production about a friendship between a young woman and an old man suffering from dementia
16.09.2007 Films from 43 countries feature in this year's London Film Festival, 17 October-1 November, as well as documentaries that include Kim Longinotto's Hold Me Tight Let Me Go, and The Champagne Spy.
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Image: The Mourning Forest, a French-Japanese production about a friendship between a young woman and an old man suffering from dementia
14.09.2007 "Appalling conditions and stark injustices" within the high street fashion industry are highlighted in a new report that says UK retailers do not pay developing country garment workers a living wage, while reaping vast profits and paying spokesmodels and CEOs millions of pounds.
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From: War on Want
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11.09.2007 Hundreds of luxury apartments in the UK’s two tallest residential towers are decked out with hardwood flooring sourced from an illegal logging hotspot, according to an environmental activist group.
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From: Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
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10.09.2007 Plans by a British company, Vedanta Resources, for a bauxite mine in protected forests in India have been delayed after the Supreme Court in Delhi ordered a wide-ranging impact study.
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From: ActionAid UK
Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [India] [Corporations] [Forests]
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