Be sure to get your tickets, they're going fast.

1 Week to go!  Be sure to get your tickets, they're going fast.

	With only one week to go before the kick off the 22nd edition of the HRWFF in London, we are incredible excited and proud to bring the best in human rights storytelling to London. Be sure to book your tickets here for your favourite films as screenings are already selling out. Here’s a round-up of the inspiring screening, premieres and in-depth conversation happening during the first weekend of the #HRWFFLDN!
			THE FORCE  | London Premiere + Q&A with director Pete Nicks Friday March 9, 18:15, Barbican  Monday March 12, 19:30, Regent Street Cinema A young police chief, hailed as a reformer, is brought in to complete the turnaround the Oakland Police Department at the very moment the #BlackLivesMatter movement emerges to demand police accountability and racial justice across the nation.
			12 DAYS | London Premiere + Q&A with Emina Cerimovic, Disability Rights, HRW and Stephen Cragg QC Saturday March 10, 16:00, Barbican Sunday March 11, 16:00, Barbican Raymond Depardon’s 12 Days captures the raw and vulnerable interactions at the border of justice and psychiatry, humanity and bureaucracy when a crucial decision must be made: will a patient be forced to stay in a hospital or granted freedom after being involuntarily hospitalised? This film is subtitled in English. BSL interpretation will be provided for the Q&As
			THE POETESS | UK Premiere + Q&A with Director Stefanie Brockhaus Friday March 9, 20:45, Barbican Saturday March 10, 20:30, BFI SouthbankThe Poetess is the inspiring story of a woman risking her safety and seizing an opportunity, live on TV in front of 75 million viewers, to use her wit and lyricism to critique patriarchal society and religious extremism, and to urge a more peaceful Islam. This film is subtitled in English. BSL interpretation will be provided for the Q&As
			MUHI - GENERALLY TEMPORARY + Q&A with Director Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander Sunday March 11, 18:30, Barbican Monday March 12, 20:45, BarbicanThis touching documentary lays out the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in human terms, documenting the impact these paradoxical circumstances have on individual lives. Muhi and his doting grandfather, Abu Naim, are caught in an immigration limbo and only permitted to reside in an Israeli hospital.
			INSHA'ALLAH DEMOCRACY | London Premiere + Q&A with Director Mohammed Naqvi Friday March 9, 20:20, BFI Southbank Saturday March 10, 18:30, BarbicanFilmmaker Mo Naqvi will vote for the first time during Pakistan's elections. But Mo has a tough choice: vote for religious hardliners or for the secular liberal leader, Pervez Musharraf, who happens to be a former military dictator. This film is subtitled in English. BSL interpretation will be provided for the Q&As
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NASA Global Climate Change News: March 1 2018

March 2018

January 2018 was fifth warmest January on record  January 2018 was the fifth warmest January in 138 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by NASA scientists. Full story› New study finds sea level rise accelerating  The rate of global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, rather than increasing steadily, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satellite data. Full story› New study brings Antarctic ice loss into sharper focus  A NASA study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides the clearest picture yet of changes in Antarctic ice flow into the ocean. Full story› More Top Stories Update: Carbon dioxide concentration Last month's global average concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide was about 408 parts per million (ppm). Unusually warm winter breaks up sea ice in the Arctic Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row. The heat is entering the Arctic not only through the sector of the North Atlantic Ocean that lies between Greenland and Europe, as it has done in previous years, but is also coming from the North Pacific through the Bering Strait. New partnership aids sustainable growth with Earth observations NASA and the nonprofit Conservation International are partnering to use global Earth observations from space to improve regional efforts that assess natural resources for conservation and sustainable management. CloudSat exits the "A-Train" NASA's nearly 12-year-old CloudSat satellite has exited the Afternoon Constellation, or A-Train, of Earth monitoring satellites, but its science mission will continue. Farewell to a pioneering pollution sensor ​Farewell to TES, the first instrument to monitor tropospheric ozone from space. NASA’s longest running survey of ice shattered records in 2017 ​NASA’s Operation IceBridge campaign, an aerial survey of the state of polar ice, covered the icy regions of our planet in 2017 with a record seven separate field campaigns. New NASA space sensors to address key Earth science questions Why is the Arctic warming faster than the rest of the planet? Does mineral dust warm or cool the atmosphere? NASA has selected two new, creative research proposals to develop small, space-based instruments that will tackle these fundamental questions about our home planet and its environment. Images of Change: Pine Island Glacier iceberg shatters A massive iceberg broke off Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier in September 2017 and shattered over the next few months. Images of Change: Glacier loss in New Guinea Ice in New Guinea's Sudirman Range has diminished dramatically in the last few decades. Images of Change: Largest California fire in modern history In late 2017, the Thomas Fire became California’s largest wildfire since modern record-keeping began in 1932. Explore About Us NASA's Global Climate Change website is produced by the Earth Science Communications Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech. To learn more, visit our website at › climate.nasa.gov Stay Connected Sent from NASA's Global Climate Change Website 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109

When Students Stand Up

Photo © 2018 Reuters In a remarkably short period of time, the student activists who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting have galvanized a national debate over gun violence and school safety and sparked school walkouts and protests across the United States. But inspiring teen activists aren’t unique to the US. Around the world, high school students have been on the forefront of social change. From the student activists in Florida to Black Lives Matter to campaigns around the world to promote education and children’s rights, the power of teenagers to change the world should not be in doubt. READ MORE »

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