Monthly Archives: March, 2007

Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896)

by sonia

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The Leighton Drawings Project aimed to catalogue, conserve, photograph and exhibit the collection of almost 700 drawings by Frederic Leighton at Leighton House Museum. It was carried out between 2005 and 2007 with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and can be accessed, along with a database of all Leighton drawings in other [...]

Iranian Women Activists Jailed

by sonia

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Urgent human rights alert from the Women”s Learning Partnership:
“Thirty-four of our colleagues and partners in the Iranian women”s movement were arrested on Sunday, March 4 outside of Tehran”s Revolutionary Court. They were staging a peaceful protest against the increasing government pressure on civil society activists and, in particular, the trial of five women activists [...]

SLAVE BRITAIN: twenty first century trade in human lives

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A photography exhibition at St. Paul”s Cathedral which documents the ordinary lives and everyday locations caught up in human trafficking and calls for an end to this illegal 21st century trade. The exhibition seeks to expose the reality of trafficking and the action needed to tackle it. Running until the 29th March, produced by Panos [...]

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