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  • 18 Feb 2013
    IDS and Cait Reilly: false witness and slander?

    UK Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has reportedly repeated unfair misrepresentations against a young woman whose court battle exposed the injustice of forcing unemployed people to work for free.

  • 18 Feb 2013
    Thinking differently about food

    The horsemeat scandals which are the subject of enveloping media coverage in Britain at the moment (and which extend to 13 countries and 28 companies) point to far deeper issues about the structure of the food industry and the damage that its dominance by unaccountable corporate interests is doing in terms of health, hunger, nutrition, the environment, sustainable farming, animal welfare, food security, food sovereignty and more besides.

  • 16 Feb 2013
    Money, church, freedom, state and slavery

    It is not often that 120 or more people turn for a book launch these days. But what took place at St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church in Scotland's capital yesterday evening (15 February 2013) was no routine publishing party.

  • 14 Feb 2013
    Millions join together to protest violence against women

    The One Billion Rising global activist movement to end violence against women and girls has brought together people in over 200 countries to call for change.

  • 14 Feb 2013
    Bahraini prisoners of conscience speak out on 2-year protest anniversary

    Prisoners of conscience - including doctors and teachers - in Bahrain have spoken out about their plight in a new briefing released by Amnesty International.

  • 10 Feb 2013
    Palestinian settlements: Political irony, existential cruelty

    Israeli politicians should forsake their land-grab policies and in the process help sow the seeds of hope and peace for two peoples who vie for legitimacy and rights over the same small parcel of land, says Dr Harry Hagopian, regional experts and Ekklesia associate. After all, it is axiomatic that citizenry rights are redundant unless they are vested with sovereignty, too.

  • 10 Feb 2013
    Background to Autism Sunday (10 February 2013)

    Churches across Britain will mark Autism Sunday once again today (10 February 2013).

  • 5 Feb 2013
    BBC under fire over cuts, job losses and mismanagement

    BBC journalists have agreed to a corporation-wide 'work to rule' and strike action over compulsory redundancies imposed by the Corporation.

  • 4 Feb 2013
    Justice is the key to peace in Colombia

    In years of conflict Colombia has seen five million people displaced, 60,000 declared as “missing”, thousands killed, and a million hectares of land snatched away from the rightful owners. Dr Marcelo Schneider addresses the justice that is bound up with peace in a troubled land, and sets the scene for the work of the the Programme of Ecumenical Accompaniment in Colombia (PEAC), inspired by the WCC’s Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel.

  • 3 Feb 2013
    Hunger can be ended: but how and by whom?