October 4th, 2011
| 10 October 2011 |
| 5:15 pm | to | 6:15 pm |
All are welcome to come to VicIDS’ AGM. We will briefly talk a bit about the club, we will discuss the year that has been, and we will be electing officers for 2012 (positions range from President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, Cultural Officer, Events Coordinators, Promo and Website Coordinator, General Committee positions). Great opportunity to get involved as a new member!
Free fairtrade tea and coffee provided!
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September 28th, 2011
| 3 October 2011 |
| 5:15 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Mary Wareham works for the arms division of Human Rights Watch. Based in Wellington, she also coordinates the Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition (ANZCMC) and the New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines (CALM). Wareham is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington (MA, Politics, 1995).
Wareham recently returned from the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, held in Beirut, Lebanon on 12-16 September 2011. In just under two months time, she will attend the Mine Ban Treaty’s 11th Meeting of States Parties in Phnom, Penh on 28 November-2 December 2011. Both events are major milestones in the international movements to ban cluster bombs and landmines, respectively. Wareham will discuss the status of the campaigns to ban cluster bombs and landmines, including New Zealand’s engagement.
Free Fairtrade tea and coffee will be provided (bring your own cup if you can!).
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September 19th, 2011
| 26 September 2011 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Monday 26 September, 6pm, CO304
Panelists: Maryan Street MP (Labour), Kennedy Graham MP (Green), Stephen Whittington (Act Wellington Central candidate) and Paul-Foster Bell (National Wellington Central candidate)
Chair: John Overton (Professor of School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences)
VicIDS hosts a pre-election panel discussion and Q & A on political parties’ policies on international development. Each MP or party candidate will briefly outline their party’s stance on New Zealand’s direction regarding international development over the past three years. Following this questions from the audience will be encouraged, covering issues such as trade, aid, climate change, human rights, food security, the arms trade and disarmament.
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September 15th, 2011
| 19 September 2011 |
| 5:15 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Monday 19 September, 5:15pm, Cotton Building Room 304, Kelburn Campus
VicIDS will be screening “Injury Time”, a DVD by South African filmmaker Mark Fredericks that looks at the relationship between sport, neoliberalism, racism and politics in post-apartheid South Africa. Following the DVD there will be a facilitated discussion led by members of the newly-emerging on-campus African Association. The discussion will be centred around the topic “what next, after the liberation struggles?” During this discussion we will be sharing food so please bring a little plate of something along to share! Yum! This event is timed to be close to the 30th anniversary of the 1981 Springbok tour and the anniversary of Steve Biko’s death.
Free fairtrade tea and coffee will be provided (bring your own cup if you can!)
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September 8th, 2011
| 12 September 2011 |
| 5:30 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Monday 12 September, 5:30pm, CO304, Kelburn Campus, VUW
West Papuan human rights advocate Paula Makabory speaks about the struggle for peace and justice in West Papua. Paula has a history of documenting human rights violations and in 2006 was named as one of the “1000 women for peace” nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She has worked for the Papuan NGO Elsham where she documented human rights violations in Timika, a town near the Freeport McMoran mine. Paula is now part of the West Papuan lobby for peaceful dialogue with Indonesia. She currently lives in exile in Australia where she works for the Institute for Papuan Advocacy and Human Rights.
Free Fairtrade tea and coffee provided (bring a cup if you can!)
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September 4th, 2011
| 7 September 2011 |
| 5:15 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Speaker: Sibusiso Zikode
Sibusiso Zikode is President of the Abahlahli baseMjondolo (shack dwellers) Movement in South Africa. ABM is the largest organisation of the poor in South Africa, and campaigns for housing, water and electricity supplies for the poorest South Africans. From 2009 the movement has been subject to vicious attacks from ANC activists.
S’bu is being brought to New Zealand by Global Peace and Justice Auckland as part of the 30th anniversary of the 1981 Springbok tour. The tour is a chance for New Zealanders to get an up to date picture of progress in South Africa in the 17 years since the first democratic election. S’bu will also be showing a newly released award-winning DVD Dear Mandela which outlines the ongoing struggle in South Africa under the ANC’s free market policies.
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July 26th, 2011
| 1 August 2011 |
| 5:15 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Monday 1 August, 5:15pm, CO304
Richard Mowll (MDevStudies student) will be presenting a talk on sanitation issues and development. He will discuss his experience refurbishing a TB dispensary building in Uzbekistan back in 2002. He will also show his six favourite photos of latrines in Karakalpakstan (in the west of Uzbekistan). No, really! The photos provide a nice way to talk through general sanitation issues in low-cost environments (all about pooing behaviour and latrine construction). Sanitation is a key aspect of public health work.
Free Fairtrade tea and coffee provided. Mmm… (bring a cup if you can)!
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July 21st, 2011
Monday 25 July, 5:30pm, Cotton Building Room 304, Kelburn Campus, Vic Uni
This double speaker event is focused on refugees in New Zealand. Mohammad Ali Amiri (a refugee and part of ChangeMakers Refugee Forum) will provide a personal perspective on being a refugee in New Zealand, while Robyn Harper (from Refugee Services) will discuss the work that Refugee Services does and ways that you can get involved or help out. Free fairtrade tea and coffee provided (bring a cup if you can)!
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July 12th, 2011
| 18 July 2011 |
| 5:30 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Monday 18 July, 5.30pm, MacLaurin Lecture Theatre 102, Victoria University, Kelburn
Global Poverty Project New Zealand Director Will Watterson will be presenting “1.4 billion reasons”: a simple yet ground-breaking presentation which is travelling the world, inspiring and empowering audiences in its path. Based on leading research, the 90 minute presentation clearly articulates the facts of extreme poverty and demonstrates that by making simple changes everyone can be a part of the solution.
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July 10th, 2011
| 11 July 2011 |
| 5:15 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Monday 11 July, 5:15pm, Cotton Building, Rom 304, Kelburn Campus
According to the latest estimates 12.5% of Fiji’s population today is living in over 182 informal or squatter settlements around the country. Besides having no proper legal status to their homes, the vast majority of these people lack basic amenities. This film explores the problems squatters face in their daily lives and the issues of human rights that their situations present.
Free fairtrade tea and coffee provided. Mmm… (bring a cup if you can!!)
If you can’t make it to the DVD, come along to our clubs’ week stall and sign our fairtrade my uni petition 
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