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Self-Evident Truths? Human Rights and the Enlightenment
Venue: Taylor Institution Library, St Giles, Oxford
Date: Wed 10 Feb 2010, Wed 17 Feb 2010, Fri 26 Feb 2010, Wed 03 Mar 2010, Wed 10 Mar 2010, Wed 17 Mar 2010, Wed 12 May 2010
Oxford Amnesty Lectures is one of the world's leading lecture series. It is an independent registered charity created to sustain debate about human rights in the academic and wider community. Each year speakers of international reputation are invited to lecture in Oxford on a theme related to human rights. To date OAL has raised over £100,000 for Amnesty International UK.
Colombia's indigenous peoples at risk of extinction
Venue: Human Rights Action Centre, 17 - 25 New Inn Yard EC2A 3EA
Date:Tue 16 Mar 2010
Representatives of Colombia's indigenous communities are visiting London to launch a campaign for the survival of indigenous peoples at risk of extinction in Colombia.
This joint event is being organised by ABColombia, the Colombian National Indigenous Organisation (Organizacion Nacional Indigena de Colombia - ONIC) and Amnesty International.
The Past, Present and Future of Guantanamo
Venue: University of Kent at Canterbury, Keynes College Lecture Theatre 1
Date:Thu 18 Mar 2010
Film screening of 'Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo' followed by Q&A with former Guantanamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, and Andy Worthington, one of the films directors.
Dirty Business Film Series: Black Gold
Venue: Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Thu 18 Mar 2010
The third in a series of films looking at the negative impact of big corporations on human rights, this provocative documentary will make you stop and think when you order your next skinny latte.
Nick Broomfield's Still Human Still Here - The Untold Story of Asylum in the UK
Venue: Highbury Baptist Church, 40a Highbury Place, N5 1QL
Date:Thu 18 Mar 2010
The Islington and Hackney Amnesty group present a discussion and screening of Nick Broomfield's Still Human Still Here with some very special guests.
At what price freedom?
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, Friargate, York YO1 9RL
Date:Tue 23 Mar 2010
York Amnesty Group is delighted to play host to leading political journalist John Kampfner who will talk about his latest book 'Freedom for Sale'.
At the end of the line: restoring the integrity of the UK's asylum system
Venue: Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Tue 23 Mar 2010
Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, joins a panel of experts to discuss proposed changes in the UK asylum system at the launch of a new report by the Still Human Still Here coalition.
The Reckoning
Venue: Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Wed 24 Mar 2010
A rare and fascinating insight into the work of the International Criminal Court as the Chief Prosecutor seeks to bring to justice the world's 'most wanted' war criminals. Followed by a discussion with Deputy ICC Prosecutor, Mrs Fatou Bensouda
A Magic Evening for Amnesty
Venue: Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
Date:Thu 25 Mar 2010
A fantastic night of comedy and magic!
In The Land of the Free
Venue: The Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Tue 30 Mar 2010
Directed by Vadim Jean
In The Land of the Free... is a documentary feature that examines the story of Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King. They are known as the Angola 3 and have spent almost a century between them in solitary confinement in Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Herman and Albert are still held in solitary confinement after thirty seven years.
Dirty Business Film Series: IronEaters
Venue: Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Thu 01 Apr 2010
The fourth in a series of films looking at the negative impact of big corporations on human rights, this award winning documentary looks at the dangerous and frightening world of the Bangladeshi shipyards where workers risk their lives for a pittance to break up condemned western container ships.
The Black Light Parade present an evening for the benefit of Amnesty International
Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre, 12 George Street, Nottingham, NG1 3BE
Date:Sat 03 Apr 2010
Nottingham darkwave band The Black Light Parade have put together an uncompromising line-up of some of the best rock acts that the Midlands has produced in the last 10 years to raise funds for Amnesty International.
National Conference and Annual General Meeting 2010
Venue: University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL
From: Fri 09 Apr 2010
To: Sun 11 Apr 2010
Start the new year by booking your place for the 2010 National Conference and Annual General Meeting, open to all Amnesty UK members. Join us for a weekend guaranteed to inspire you and fire you up to take action!
Dirty Business Film Series: Iraq for Sale - the war profiteers
Venue: Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Thu 15 Apr 2010
The fifth in a series of films looking at the negative impact of big corporations on human rights, Robert Greenwald's passionate and angry film looks at the way companies profit from the misery of war.
'Ruined' by Lynne Nottage
Venue: Almeida Thatre, Almeida Street, London, N1 1TA
From: Thu 15 Apr 2010
To: Sat 05 Jun 2010
Amnesty is delighted to be working in partnership with the Almeida Theatre around the European premiere of Ruined, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Set in a war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, the play explores the impact of conflict on women.
Sing & Dance Africa!
Venue: Fishergate Primary School, York
Date:Sat 17 Apr 2010
Fun day of African song and dance workshops for all on Saturday April 17th 2010
Fabulous African jewellery stall
Burma - The Gap between Rights and Reality
Venue: Focolare Centre, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL8 6JG
Date:Tue 20 Apr 2010
Open meeting on the realities of life in Burma in 2010.
Dirty Business Film Series: Crude
Venue: Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Thu 06 May 2010
The last in a series of films looking at the negative impact of big corporations on human rights, Crude follows the progress of a $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron oil by Equadorians fighting to save the Amazon from destruction.
Capital Murder: Inside the Israeli authorities’ regime of discrimination and control in Occupied East Jerusalem
Venue: The Human Rights Action Centre
Date:Wed 12 May 2010
While the Israeli government, Jerusalem municipality, and religious settler groups work together to make sure that Jerusalem stays the 'united, eternal Jewish capital', what are the consequences for East Jerusalem's Palestinians, and the wider 'peace process’?
South East Regional Conference
Venue: Age Concern, Clair Hall, Haywards Heath
Date:Thu 30 Dec 2010
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