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This events section is for all Amnesty International UK events, big and small. So whether you are a planning a Protect The Human party for your friends or you are organising an Amnesty demo for hundreds of people, please submit you event below.

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Unfortunately, we cannot currently advertise events that are not affiliated to Amnesty. However this is something we are keen to do in the future, so watch this space!

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Soul Night VI

Venue: The Slaughtered Lamb
Date:Fri 03 Sep 2010

Mayfair and Soho's Soul Night VI

Book sale

Venue: Market Square, Ely
Date:Sat 11 Sep 2010

book sale stall in Ely market

Letter writing group

letter writing

Venue: desVins Cafe and Wine Bar, Ground Floor, St. Pancras International station
Date: Sun 19 Sep 2010, Sun 17 Oct 2010, Sun 21 Nov 2010, Sun 19 Dec 2010

Please join us for this informal letter writing group, due to meet on the third Sunday of every month at St. Pancras International Station. We will be writing appeal letters for urgent and priority actions.

Amnesty at Open House weekend

Human Rights Action Centre, London

Venue: Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Sun 19 Sep 2010

Amnesty UK is taking part in this year's Open House weekend, the London-wide festival of architecture. The building will be open to anyone wanting to come in and have a look around and find out more about Amnesty's work.

Fundraising Pub Quiz

Venue: The Exhibit, Balham, SW12 9SG
Date:Thu 23 Sep 2010

Test your brain at Wandsworth group's pub quiz!

1920s fundraising night with live jazz band

Venue: Orford Road Social Club, 73 Orford Road, London E17 9QR
Date:Fri 24 Sep 2010

A 1920s themed fundraising party with a live band, some food provided and drinks at the bar.

International Orchestra for Freedom - 'Abandoning Silence' concert series

Venue: Cadogan Hall
Date:Wed 29 Sep 2010

A concert to raise awareness of human trafficking through orchestral music, featuring work from Tchaikovsky, Gulda and new work 'Prayer for Humanity' by Siddique.

Small Acts of Resistance: How courage, tenacity and ingenuity can change the world

Nepal

Venue: The Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Wed 29 Sep 2010

Author Steve Crawshaw in conversation with broadcaster Allan Little on the impact small acts by determined individuals can have against seemingly overwhelming odds.

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Even Though I'm Free, I Am Not by James Mackay

ASSK 70

Venue: The Human Rights Action Centre
Date: Thu 30 Sep 2010, Fri 01 Oct 2010, Mon 04 Oct 2010, Tue 05 Oct 2010, Wed 06 Oct 2010, Thu 07 Oct 2010, Fri 08 Oct 2010, Mon 11 Oct 2010, Tue 12 Oct 2010, Wed 13 Oct 2010

Award winning images of former Burmese political prisoners.

Housing is a Human Right: forced evictions in Africa

Deep Sea settlement in Nairobi was subjected to an illegal forced eviction in 2005

Venue: The Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Mon 04 Oct 2010

An evening of discussion on the issue of forced evictions to mark World Habitat Day.

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Burma: Photographing a secret state

James Mackay, Burma

Venue: The Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Thu 07 Oct 2010

Discussion with award winning photographer James Mackay, who took huge personal risks to photograph former political prisoners inside Burma; Reporter and documentary maker Evan Williams (Ch4 Dispatches) who worked extensively in Burma as a reporter, and a photographer from the Democratic Voice of Burma (tbc).

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Time For Justice

Venue: Wellington Park Hotel, Belfast
Date:Thu 07 Oct 2010

Delivering a human rights compliant inquiry for the victims of historical institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland

Slumdog Poetry

Venue: The Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Tue 12 Oct 2010

For the fifth year running, Amnesty UK will be hosting a poetry event in collaboration with Poet in the City. The evening will be an exploration of poetry from writers whose work dwells on the comforts of home or the devastation of the loss of it.

Exhibition: Shattered Homes

Margaret, 50, market trader from Kabete NITD settlement, Nairobi, Kenya, 13 July 2010.

Venue: The Human Rights Action Centre
Date: Fri 15 Oct 2010, Mon 18 Oct 2010, Tue 19 Oct 2010, Wed 20 Oct 2010, Thu 21 Oct 2010, Fri 22 Oct 2010, Mon 25 Oct 2010, Tue 26 Oct 2010, Wed 27 Oct 2010

A photography exhibition showing the human cost of house demolitions and forced evictions around the world.

East Anglia regional conference

Venue: South Essex College, Luker Road, Southend-on-Sea SS1 1ND
Date:Sat 16 Oct 2010

More information and booking forms will soon be available on the Amnesty Southend group website.

Songs of Freedom: John Lennon

Venue: Mandela Hall
Date:Sat 16 Oct 2010

Local artistes come together in this Amnesty International gig to pay tribute to Lennon's talents as a song-writer with a message and to anticipate the thirtieth anniversary of his untimely death.

Songs of Freedom: John Lennon revolutionary or fool?

Venue: Oh Yeah music centre
Date:Wed 20 Oct 2010

In anticipation of the thirtieth anniversary of John Lennon's untimely death, local and international commentators gather to explore the legacy of his political song-writing and activism.

Enforced Disappearance Activism Conference

Venue: Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Sat 23 Oct 2010

Organised by Amnesty's network of country coordinators. Campaigning speakers (relatives of and a survivor of enforced disappearances),
interactive interview with campaigning journalist Henry Porter, panel discussion and Q&A with contributions from AI and other NGO experts covering - for instance - Indonesia. Lyibya and Russia, workshops on Balkans / Former Soviet Union, Central America, and North Africa covering AI(UK) concerns, actions and a keynote speech from Professor Philip Leach, director of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre.

Conference on Enforced Disappearances

Venue: Human Rights Action Centre, London
Date:Sat 23 Oct 2010

Amnesty UK's activist network of Country Coordinators are organising a Conference on Enforced Disappearances.

Conference: human rights in Burma and Iran

Venue: Brunswick Methodist Church, Brunswick Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Date:Sat 23 Oct 2010

Amnesty and TUC conference examining and comparing the human rights situations in Iran and Burma. How we can respond?

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