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  • 1 Mar 2013
    Stop telling lies about poverty, benefits and welfare, churches demand

    A new churches' report shows how evidence and statistics have been misused, misrepresented and manipulated to create untruths that stigmatise the poor.

  • 28 Feb 2013
    Local Kenyans mobilise for active nonviolence ahead of elections

    As fears of violence grow ahead of Kenya’s elections, thousands of people are mobilising for conflict resolution and nonviolent resistance to injustice.

  • 25 Feb 2013
    Cardinal O'Brien and beyond: the crisis in the Catholic Church

    Britain's most senior Catholic leader, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, will now not take part in the conclave to chose a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, having been forced to resign early by allegations of "inappropriate conduct" made to the Vatican by several priests, both now retired and still serving.

  • 25 Feb 2013
    Mocking sick and disabled people

    When did sick and disabled people become 'fair game' for mockery in the UK?

    Over the last few years the way certain elements of the media have portrayed these sections of the population as ‘scroungers’ and ‘benefit cheats’ has been depressing, but today the Daily Mail reached a new low. In this article dramatic claims were made about the numbers of new claimants for Disability Living Allowance, describing a rush to claim the benefit before new more stringent rules are introduced.

  • 22 Feb 2013
    Egyptian authorities' move to restrict NGOs a 'new low', says Amnesty

    Amnesty has criticised the Egyptian authorities intention to prohibit Egyptian NGOs’ contact with foreign organisations without permission from security bodies.

  • 20 Feb 2013
    Photos enable Scottish parliament to face up to Donald Trump

    An award-winning photographer is displaying her photos, of the community on the front line of Donald Trump's development in Aberdeenshire, at Holyrood.

  • 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.