10 Sep 2009 | Events
Index on Censorship launches the latest issue of its award-winning magazine with a special evening of theatre and discussion marking the 20th anniversary of the revolutions that brought down communism in Eastern Europe.
Rare performances of Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe and Václav Havel’s Mistake, first published by Index on Censorship in 1984, will be followed by a panel discussion with author and journalist Misha Glenny, Serbian novelist Vladimir Arsenijevic and Index on Censorship chief executive John Kampfner.
Catastrophe and Mistake directed by Jo Blatchley
630pm-830pm, Thursday 17 September
Wine and refreshments will be served
Free Word Centre
60 Farringdon Road
London EC1R 3GA
(Nearest Underground Farringdon)
To reserve a free place please email [email protected] or call 020 7324 2522
For more information about the festival go to
http://www.freewordonline.com/events/
9 Sep 2009 | Index Index, minipost, News and features
UNESCOs proposed international sex education guidelines aimed at reducing HIV have been removed from its website amid criticism by conservative American organisations that they were too explicit for young children. The guidelines are a product of two years work by a team of experts at UNESCO at a cost of $350,000. Instead of the final document, a new draft was released on 7 September at a sex education conference in Birmingham.
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9 Sep 2009 | Index Index, minipost, News and features
Journalist Lubna Hussein has been released, apparently “against her wishes”, after the Sudanese journalists union paid the penalty fine of £130 for wearing trousers in public. She had refused to pay the fine herself.
Hussein had initially faced a punishment forty lashes, this was later reduced to a penalty fine which she did not pay and was subsequently imprisoned. Hussein has expressed displeasure at the payment of the fine.
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9 Sep 2009 | News and features, United Kingdom
Barring the far-right BNP from the BBC’s Question Time would only undermine democracy, says Salil Tripathi
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