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  • 9 Feb 2010
    Observers welcome progress towards setting Somaliland poll date

    Progressio has welcomed recent progress made to resolve the Somaliland voter registration process – a key sticking point – and is calling on all parties to push ahead and set a date for the poll.

  • 8 Feb 2010
    WCC calls on IMF to follow G7 in writing off Haiti's debts

    The World Council of Churches has welcomed the initiative by the G7 industrialised nations which pledged this past weekend to write Haiti's debts off. It has also called on the IMF and others to follow suit.

  • 6 Feb 2010
    Church leaders in Kenya rally against draft constitution

    Church leaders in Kenya are rallying their followers against a draft constitution they say favours Muslims and will tear the country apart. Muslims argue that it protects their rights.

  • 4 Feb 2010
    Changing politics for good

    Once in a generation, people get a chance to make radical and significant changes to the country's political fabric, says Power 2010. This is such a time.

  • 4 Feb 2010
    Defence Review ignores the real questions, say campaigners

    The government is facing criticism for the narrow range of its Defence Review, which was presented in a Green Paper in the House of Commons yesterday. Campaigners say that it ignores fundamental questions about security and conflict.

  • 4 Feb 2010
    Only a quarter of voters regard Iraq war as successful

    The war in Iraq has been largely unsuccessful, according to nearly two-thirds (63%) of the British public. A new poll has revealed that only just over a quarter (29%) of voters regard the war as largely a success.

  • 3 Feb 2010
    URC urges congregations to take a stand against racist parties

    The United Reformed Church has contacted its leaders and congregations, reminding them of its long standing opposition to extreme right-wing and racist political parties, and urging them to disavow parties that support racial discrimination.

  • 3 Feb 2010
    Westminster debate hears case for and against unelected bishops in the Lords

    Having unelected male religious leaders from one denomination in an unelected legislative chamber is unfair, inappropriate and contrary to the Christian message of equality and justice, an audience in parliament heard this week.

  • 2 Feb 2010
    Jim Wallis on values and Wall Street

    In the past, US social and political commentators overlooked revivalism as a source of radical critique of society, says Martin Marty. Now we need to notice that it is the radical evangelicalism of Jim Wallis and Sojourners which is offering a moral and values-based challenge to 'capitalist economics as usual'.

  • 2 Feb 2010
    MPs to to debate a referendum on changing the electoral system

    Democracy campaigners have welcomed the news that MPs will be asked to debate an amendment to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill to enable a referendum on changing the electoral system.