Full Coverage: United Kingdom

28.01.2008 Jos maailman reiluimman maan titteli jaettaisiin reilun kaupan tuotteiden myynnin perusteella, arvonimen saisi Britannia. Saarivaltiossa reilua kauppaa käydään jo lähes 3 000 tuotteen voimin.

28.01.2008 As he toured China and India, touting Britain as the ultimate capitalist destination, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown dispensed with ethical values and returned to mercantile Elizabethan times.
From New Statesman

27.01.2008 It’s not just a Birds Eye View: it’s a window on the world, with films from Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, India, Israel, Mozambique and Pakistan.

22.01.2008 Calling all VSO volunteers since 1958...join the celebrations to mark the organisation's 50th anniversary. Events include a panel debate at London's Festival Hall in March featuring Trevor Phillips, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Harriet Lamb of the Fairtrade Foundation, CBI director general Richard Lambert, activist Peter Tatchell and Africa expert Richard Dowden.

22.01.2008 Nathalie Rothschild argues that there's one way to stop illegal immigration: stop making immigration illegal.
From Spiked

21.01.2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has backed calls for a permanent place on the UN Security Council for India as he prepares to announce measures designed to modernise international institutions.

20.01.2008 VSO is trying to reconnect with the 33,000 people who have volunteered since the organisation's inception in 1958, in the hope that many will attend the 50th anniversary at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

18.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 18 (OneWorld) - London and Paris were given a prestigious award this week for their innovative citywide programs to improve public transit and reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.

10.01.2008 The UK government has made much of its green credentials, boasting that it leads the world in tackling climate change. So what does it do? Give the green light to a new generation of nuclear power stations that will cost billions, eventually deliver only tiny cuts in carbon emissions and leave future generations with a legacy of nuclear waste to clean up.
+ Mind the Gap

10.01.2008 A small exhibition, Outside Edge, is a journey through black British lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history of the last 30 years. It opens at Museum in Docklands on 7 February.

10.01.2008 With half of British Muslims describing their background as Pakistani, events on the subcontinent resonate here, says Shiraz Maher.
From Prospect

08.01.2008 Ladbroke Grove FILM WRITE is a monthly film night showcasing groundbreaking films/authors/poets. Free film screenings, incredible authors and poets reading from their recent publications, local filmmakers discussing what brought them to achieve their works and discussions with figures from the community participating.

07.01.2008 LYRICAL MC is a show about young people in a multicultural world: it illuminates the sophisticated, lyrical cultural exchange that is happening between young people in urban schools, every day. It opens on 5 February

04.01.2008 Staff training at immigration detention centres must be improved, says an official report which recorded a catalogue of racist behaviour in the system.
+ Immigration detention report