Edinburgh
World Justice Festival
Monday 18 May - Sunday 31 May 2009
The fourth Edinburgh World Justice Festival comes
at a time of global economic crisis, deepening poverty,
worsening human rights abuses and increasingly worrying
predictions about the scale of climate change. Grim
reading perhaps, however, maybe the current situation
offers an opportunity to find ways of building justice
out of crisis.
This year’s festival continues the legacy of the
Make Poverty History and G8 alternative campaigns
and picks up on the theme of building justice out
of crisis.
Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International
Development will open the festival, kickstarting
what promises to be 10 days of stimulating and thought
provoking events.
Festival events are suitable for everyone and
are an opportunity to learn more about the causes
of some of the world’s gravest problems and to explore
potential solutions to them.
The events are also a chance to identify actions
that we can take as individuals, and as a community,
to advance justice across the world. You don’t have
to have any prior knowledge of the issues to join
in, all of the venues are accessible and all events
are free except for our festival gig on 18 May.
The range of organisations and individuals contributing
to the festival, as well as the variety and quality
of the events they are delivering, are testament
to what can be achieved when we all work together.
We hope you can come and join us.
The EWJF Team For more information go to www.ewjf.org.uk
or email info@ewjf.org.uk
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World Justice Festival
