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31.10.2007 As the UN Human Rights Committee begins to scrutinise Britain's rights performance, Article 19 calls on the committee to question the government on its plans to reduce use of the Freedom of Information Act, the ban on unauthorised demonstrations near Parliament Square and the high cost of defending libel actions.

31.10.2007 As the Kenya Human Rights Commission prepares to sue the British Government for personal injuries sustained in detention camps by survivors of the Mau Mau war for independence, Mukoma Wa Ngugi unravels the colonial myths of Christianisation and civilisation and exposes the reality of torture, murder, slavery, landlessness, dehumanisation and internment.
From: Pambazuka News

30.10.2007 British MPs pledge not to forget Burma, via a YouTube video.
And following performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, OId Vic and Soho Theatre, the dramatised story of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, The Lady Of Burma, comes to London's Riverside Studios from 7 November.
+ Children Bought and Sold by Army Recruiters

30.10.2007 In the wake of the conviction of the 'Cambridge letter bomber' in Britain, The Muslim News sets out to find why, unlike numerous cases involving Muslims, Miles Cooper - who had searched the internet, amassed explosives and activated bombs to make a political point - was not arrested or charged under the new terror legislation.
From: The Muslim News

27.10.2007 The UK Government must act on UNEP Global Environment Outlook, says 'climate change' MP.

27.10.2007 Five Tanks at the Hackney Empire won’t make you cry with laughter or rock you in your seat; the staging needs tightening, the acting needs a little more edge. But the basic concept – the reactions and interactions of staff in a call centre on the day a bomb fails to explode on a 26 bus – is interesting and writer Lab Ky Mo has talent.

26.10.2007 Six women from various nations in Africa recently traveled to the UK to raise awareness about fistula, an easily preventable but debilitating disease that pregnant women develop after extremely long and difficult labor. Meet the women and read about their efforts to promote more regular and safer maternal care in their home countries.
From: UN Population Fund

26.10.2007 Organic food labels on imports flown in from developing countries will in future be granted only if they meet Fairtrade standards as well as high environmental standards, the UK Soil Association announced, but it ruled out a ban on all air-freighted organic food imports.
From: UK Soil Association

24.10.2007 The UK population is forecast to increase by 4.4 million to 65 million by 2016, according to new population projections.
From: UK National Statistics Office

23.10.2007 A Burma democracy demonstration will be held outside the Chinese embassy on Wednesday, the day Aung San Suu Kyi reaches 12 years in detention, noon-1pm, 49 Portland Place, W1.

22.10.2007 Disgruntled soccer fans who vented their dissatisfaction with their football club's bigwigs in anonymous Internet postings may face expensive libel claims after the chairman, chief executive and five directors won a UK high court ruling forcing the owner of a Web site to reveal their identities.

22.10.2007 Brighton and Hove has been named the most sustainable city in Britain in a new report, The Sustainable Cities Index.
From Forum for the Future

21.10.2007 Can algae save the world? asks a small exhibition on biofuels at the Science Museum in London.

19.10.2007 Britain, says Ziauddin Sardar, has had gay sitcoms, black sitcoms and even a couple of Indian sitcoms. But Muslim sitcoms?
From: New Statesman

18.10.2007 Thirteen years after their own holocaust, a company of actors from Rwanda come to London to perform a play about Auschwitz.

18.10.2007 Britain today pledged £200 million to the UN Population Fund and called on leaders of the world's poorest countries, especially in Africa, to make women's health a priority.
From: UN Population Fund

17.10.2007 A UK speaking tour by DNA pioneer James Watson has been thrown into chaos after a high-profile scientific institution slammed the former Nobel prize winner's claims that black people were less intelligent than their white counterparts.
From: The Independent

09.10.2007 The Burma Campaign UK has "warmly welcomed" the British government's actions over the crisis in Myanmar.

08.10.2007 The UK government will fail to meet its target of halving child poverty by 2010, according to new research by Save the Children.

08.10.2007 Controversy has erupted over airlines that refuse to cooperate in the forcible removal of people being deported from the UK.