by Simon Barrow | Jan 17, 2021 | Update
EKKLESIA IS PLEASED to be launching its new website for a new year – our twentieth in operation as a pioneering think-tank (and now change network) on beliefs, ethics and politics. This is the fourth redesign since we appeared on the web in 2002. It also marks a...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 18, 2024 | Briefing
THE PROPOSED SALE of Shell’s onshore oil business in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria risks worsening human rights abuses and should be blocked by the government unless a series of safeguards are put in place, says a group of 40 civil society organisations,...
by Staff Writer | Apr 18, 2024 | Briefing
NEW labour market figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that unemployment and economic inactivity are rising, while employment is falling. The number of people not participating in the labour market due to long-term and short-term illness has...
by Admin | Apr 17, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK Government has been urged to pledge new and additional funding to alleviate Ethiopia’s humanitarian crisis. Christian Aid’s Crisis Contexts Lead, Asha Kurien, said: “As a result of repeated climate shocks and conflict, millions of Ethiopians are facing...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 17, 2024 | Briefing
QUAKERS around the world are calling for action to bring about a just and lasting peace in Palestine and Israel. Several Quaker organisations including Quakers in Britain have issued a joint statement condemning the violence in Palestine and Israel and calling for...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 16, 2024 | Briefing
UNIVERSAL CREDIT (UC) is on track to be fully rolled-out to seven million families by the end of the next parliament. Working renters will be the main winners and those with disabilities the main losers from the reform as it faces up to new challenges like rising...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 16, 2024 | Briefing
EU MINISTERS approved a deal on the revised Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) on 12 April, a crucial piece of legislation regulating environmental and health impacts from the most polluting industrial activities. For the very first time in EU environmental...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 15, 2024 | Briefing
STRONGLY CONDEMNING the “large-scale attack” launched on Israel by Iran, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged maximum restraint by all parties and warned that “neither the region nor the world can afford another war.” “I call for an immediate cessation...
by Staff Writer | Apr 15, 2024 | Briefing
THESE are challenging times to live and work in prisons, says the Chief Inspector of Prisons in a new report. With rising drugs, violence and self-harm, and overcrowded squalid conditions in many jails, reoffending rates remain stubbornly high, at almost 37 per...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 14, 2024 | Briefing
THE CREDIT CONDITIONS SURVEY for the first quarter of 2024, published by the Bank of England on 11 April, has revealed a rise in default rates on credit cards and other loans, while overall demand for unsecured lending has increased. Lenders expect this trend to...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 13, 2024 | Briefing
AS PEOPLE OF FAITH in an election year, how are we called to work towards honest dialogue and respectful listening in political and social engagement? How do we seek good governance in all seats of power; local, national, and global? What is our response when we are...
