Symposium on Community-Based Maternal and Newborn Care at UCL
Date: Tuesday 21st May, 5.15pmVenue: John Snow Lecture Theatre Keppel Street London WC1EBooking: Book OnlineSpeakers:Prof Joy Lawn, Professor of Maternal Reproductive and Child Health Epidemiology,...
View Article"Putting the Soul Back into Business: Small Steps – Big Impact." Big brains....
The alumni of Harvard and Oxford Universities are delighted to invite you to a panel and networking event about big business and corporate social responsibility on Thursday 23rd May.This event will...
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Tracing the inkline of beauty and history: Delhi Old And New by Kavita Iyengar
First of all, please Bloomsbury can we have a UK edition of this book so British-based art lovers and readers needn't order from India and wait for shipping? Because I've just discovered a new,...
View ArticlePersephone Speaks: The forgotten women of Bosnia
I am urging everyone to back a major new documentary by the brilliant film-maker Ivana Ivkovic Kelley, whose project Persephone Speaks focuses on the use of rape as a war strategy. The film follows a...
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The power of simplicity: reducing maternal mortality in districts in Sierra...
Following my piece about maternal health in India, and in advance of the UCL symposium on community-based global maternal care next week, I wanted to focus on two smaller-scale success stories and...
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Don't Wake Me: the powerful new play by Rahila Gupta
Last week in Liverpool I was privileged to chair a panel about the international women’s movement called 50 Billion Shades of Feminism. One of my guests was the novelist, playwright, Southall Black...
View ArticleLaugh ‘til you cry, cry ‘til you laugh: The Small Hours by Susie Boyt
No good deed goes unpunished. That is the dark conclusion of Boyt’s brilliant tragicomedy of charitable intentions and damaged histories. Heroine Harriet Mansfield is a blousy woman of big emotions and...
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Helen Chadwick: Works From The Estate
To mark the 60th anniversary of the birth of British artist Helen Chadwick (born 18 May 1953, died 1996), Richard Saltoun Gallery proudly presents her first solo exhibition in London for 10 years.Helen...
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Art women, art discrimination, art resistance at Calvert 22.
At the same time that Jacob's Island gallery have just put on an exhibition of contemporary artists' work about war, featuring 14 men and 0 women...Tomorrow East London Fawcett (ELF) will be launching...
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I am thrilled to announce a new alliance with an innovative, dynamic, truly international woman, Kelly Falconer, founder of the Asia Literary Agency, who will be representing my fiction and non-fiction...
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Watch this global space
I am thrilled to announce a new alliance with an innovative, dynamic, truly worldly woman, Kelly Falconer, founder of the Hong Kong-based but international Asia Literary Agency, who will be...
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Updated 12th July 2013My most recent book is the reportage Beyond the Wall: Writing a Path Through Palestine and my recent articles include the following:From mosquito nets to life-saving emollients:...
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The Man Booker, Raised and Transformed: In Celebration Of A Prize for the...
Disclosure: I was made a trustee of the Booker Prize Foundation in spring 2013.The judges of the 2013 Man Booker Prize have selected what I believe to be the most exciting longlist and shortlist in the...
View ArticleCanadians detained without charge in Egypt go on hunger strike in protest
EDIT: As of 6th October 2013, John Greyson and Tarek Loubani have been freed. This is a guest post on behalf of the campaign for John Greyson and Tarek Loubani, text (c) the campaign team.Canadian...
View ArticleWhen free universal healthcare isn't free and isn't universal: a case study...
As the term of the current Millennium Development Goals reaches an end in 2015, healthcare workers and reporters worldwide are assessing the efficacy of different global health and development...
View ArticleComedian Rosie Wilby: Nineties Woman, 21st Century Wit
Nineties Woman is a new show from award-winning comedian Rosie Wilby, tracing a journey through early 90s feminism, refracted through a very personal lens. It's a Time Out Critics choice (19/3/12) and...
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What’s Pashto for ‘fabulous?’ A new contemporary jewellery exhibition...
Turquoise Mountain Institute, polishingEven when the international news about Afghanistan tends to look like this and an ordinary person like me yearns to kiss off the English glass ceiling and join...
View ArticleMen who rent and use women: film premiere of Honest Lies and debate about...
Off the back of my discovery of the brilliant sites The Prostitution Experience and The Invisible Men, which put the responsibility, questions and scrutiny back on men who think it's okay to buy...
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Hyeonseo Lee’s North Korean escape and rescue memoir gains six figure book deal
Hyeonseo Lee, whose memoir willbe published in Autumn 2014Hyeonseo Lee escaped the North Korean regime. Later, she risked her life to return and rescue her mother and brother. Her memoir of these...
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