Events: October 2013
Bidisha: Beyond the Wall
Venue: Cross Street Chapel, Cross Street, Manchester M2 1NL
Date:Sat 19 Oct 2013
The Manchester branch of Amnesty International are proud to present an afternoon with social justice writer, critic and broadcaster, Bidisha.
Europe: A peaceful or a warlike continent?
Venue: Priory Street Centre, York YO1 6ET
Date:Sat 05 Oct 2013
York conference focusing on Europe's human rights record, from being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, to soliciting detention and rendition programmes to support the 'War on Terror'.
The Burma Play - A Comedy of Terror
Venue: The Marine Theatre, Church Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset, DT7 3QA
Date:Fri 18 Oct 2013
The Lyme Regis Group is promoting this performance of a play which sprints through the long years of empire and dictatorship towards the current possibility of a new order.
Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer (film screening and Q&A)
Venue: Human Rights Action Centre, 17 - 25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
Date:Thu 03 Oct 2013
Amnesty's Women's Action Network is hosting a screening of the award-winning documentary Pussy Riot-a Punk Prayer.
Monashay + Director Q&A
Venue: Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
Date:Wed 09 Oct 2013
Please join Amnesty's Hampstead and Hackney and Islington Group for this premire of a new documentary on the lives of Roma in Romania, followed by a Q&A with the director.
We need to talk about torture
Venue: Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN
Date:Fri 11 Oct 2013
The Practice of Prevention: a talk with Professor Malcolm Evans, OBE, the current Chair of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture and a member of the FCO's Human Rights Advisory Group.
The face of injustice: Peter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs on death row
Venue: South Transept, Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire
Date:Thu 10 Oct 2013
A moving lecture delivered by two exonerees from death row who met after being released and now campaign for an end to the cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.
A Secret History of Torture - Amnesty International Annual Lecture
Venue: The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast
Date:Mon 21 Oct 2013
Guardian journalist Ian Cobain lays bare Britains secret use of torture from the Second World War, via Kenya and Northern Ireland, to the War on Terror.
An Evening without Filep Karma
Venue: RISC, 3539 London Street, RG1 4PS
Date:Fri 18 Oct 2013
Amnesty International Reading Group hosts: An Evening without Filep Karma
with speakers & West Papuan food & music.
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