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March 20, 2020

Amidst a pandemic, people first or market forces?

The spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the value of human solidarity and society-wide and global action, rather than relying on ‘market forces’.
November 30, 2019

Climate change an important factor in marginal seats, says NEF

What was supposed to be a Brexit election has become a climate election, says the New Economics Foundation.
November 21, 2019

Economic insecurity is Britain's new normal, says head of RSA

Matthew Taylor calls for pilots of universal basic income and a move away from free market neoliberalism to combat the social evil of economic insecurity.
October 31, 2019

Somali refugees return home from Yemen

Yemen hosts the world’s second largest Somali refugee population consisting of some 250,000 people.
October 29, 2019

Colombo Declaration calls for global nitrogen challenge to be tackled

Nitrogen overuse has negative impacts on the planet and biodiversity, and is a contributor to the climate crisis.
October 2, 2019

Belfast High Court to rule on Northern Ireland's abortion law

The court could find Northern Ireland’s abortion law in breach of the UK’s human rights commitments.
September 9, 2019

Amnesty urges El Salvador's prosecutors not to criminalise woman after stillbirth

Abortion is illegal under all circumstances in El Salvador, and women who suffer obstetric emergencies are often wrongly accused of a crime, says Amnesty.
August 29, 2019

Eastwood Park women's prison 'safe and respectful but some units not fit for purpose'

In the months leading up to the inspection, 42 per cent of women had been released homeless and were left either to live on the streets or to go to temporary emergency accommodation.
August 26, 2019

Scotland's housing providers to tackle leading cause of women’s homelessness

Current responses to women and children experiencing domestic abuse are based on expecting them, rather than the perpetrators, to leave their homes.
August 23, 2019

130,000 families forced to live in one-bed flats, research finds

Homes are considered to be overcrowded if a child has to share their bedroom with two or more other children, sleep in the same room as their parents, or share with a teenager of the opposite sex.