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Deadly fire: illuminating disadvantage and killing more people than malaria...
At first, I didn’t take the problem seriously. I was contacted by a colleague who works with international charities, asking me if I knew about the dangers of fire. They were obvious, I thought. But...
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South Asian Arts: Who should preserve them?
South Asian Arts. Who should preserve them?Event: Thursday 11th April, 7pm at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, LondonThis just in from my friends at Connect India:South Asian art and culture have now become an...
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I just saw this on the BBC and had to cover it because it highlights some of the many issues surrounding patients’ access to effective long term medical care in the developing world, illustrating how...
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Child Survival in India: stories from IRP's 2013 New Media Reporting Trip
This just in from my inspiring and amazing colleagues at the International Reporting Project. Text (c) IRP, photo below by Hagit Bachrach.In February, the International Reporting Project and nine...
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Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir
Flagging up a new book edited by Sanjay Kak, text (c) the publishers:‘Here is a book that rips through the falsehoods and false noise that has deepened the silence about Kashmir. It shows moral courage...
View ArticleNibfest. Nibfest.
‘Hang up the bunting and get out your bookmarks: Notting Hill has its inaugural literary festival. Diverse and groundbreaking’ Evening StandardNibfest: the Notting Hill Book Festival 22 world-class...
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Beyond Beyond The Fragments
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research& Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Gender & Sexuality Invite you to discuss AFTER, BEYOND THE FRAGMENTS?with Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal & Hilary...
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Indonesia is just one example: introducing the International Year of Water...
Image (c) UNWorld Water Day was just a few weeks ago, on 22ndMarch, and this time around it’s part of 2013’s special International Year of Water Co-Operation. While I’ll write more about water, health...
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51 countries think that breaking, brutalising, using and then throwing away...
This just in from Human Rights Watch and (c) them:A call for concerned individuals to join in putting pressure on world leaders to Ratify the Treaty Banning Child Soldiers. HRW writes:Today, in at...
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Barbara Brownskirt is very other
I have received a carefully written post-it note from Barbara Brownskirt, above, who will be appearing on Battersea Barge on Thursday 9th May alongside some "very other funny women," as she tells me....
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Women! Know your stage rights! Suffrage theatre strides forth again.
Text (c) my friends the Scary Little GirlsDid you know that the West End was alive with theatrical suffrage activity in the Edwardian era? Actresses weren't just in the theatres, but out on on the...
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Shhhh.... just Gaze
Julie Burchill, Giles Fraser, Bonnie Greer, VG Lee, Tim Teeman, Suzanne Moore, Maryam Namazie, Iman Qureshi, Gail Dines, Alex Hopkins, Andrew Pierce, Suzi Feay, Sophie Ward and many others have come...
View ArticleMay to September, from the Mallorcan Midwife Toad to the Bleeding Heart Dove:...
THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDONpresentsWriters’ Talks at ZSL London ZooZSL conservation scientists and keepers team up with leading writers to talk about wild animals in different venues at London...
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Deadline April 26th: Apply for a trip to report on global health in Zambia
Personal preamble first, then the stuff you need to know and the links to get you there.Photo (c) Jon Rawlinson for the IRPThis year I am working with the International Reporting Project to report on...
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Want some racism with your self-help? Let's make it a rule
The time: April 2013The place: a national rail station on a Monday morning, not rush hourThe psychological state: wanting a junk book that goes down easy and makes no demandsThe book: The Rules of Life...
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Derby Shorts: short stories as cool, tough and fast as the sport.
For Books' Sake and London Rollergirls present a ground-breaking anthology: Derby ShortsPresented by For Books’ Sake in collaboration with the London Rollergirls, Derby Shorts is a collection of short...
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Help the mother, help the child, secure the future: maternal and child health...
Photo (c) Children In Need IndiaLike many people ‘of colour’, I am occasionally subject to a random dousing of imprecise and pejorative cultural clichés by ignorant people with a superiority complex,...
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The Wilding Festival: 13th - 16th June 2013
A multi-arts festival inspired by the remarkable story of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison comes to Bloomsbury.Dates: Thursday 13th June - Sunday 16th June 2013Pre-festival talks and debates from...
View ArticleExtradited to a future of torture: the reality of solitary confinement and a...
UK premiere of film about the Connecticut Supermax prison that houses two extradited British nationals. With Amnesty International & Special Guests from the USA Solitary Watch.Date of event : 16th...
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Novelist Kishwar Desai's Sea of Innocence: women, India, safety, secrets and...
I wanted to support The Sea of Innocence, the Costa-winning novelist Kishwar Desai's latest book, which will be published by Simon & Schuster on 30th May in hardback at £12.99. The text below is...
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