by Agency Reporter | Jun 17, 2024 | Briefing
FORCED displacement surged to historic new levels across the globe last year, according to the 2024 flagship Global Trends Report from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. The rise in overall forced displacement – to 120 million by May 2024 – was the 12th consecutive annual...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 16, 2024 | Briefing
A NEW set of online resources have been launched to help people speak more confidently about the situation in the Middle East. The international development agency Christian Aid understands people may shy away from conversations about Israel and the occupied...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 15, 2024 | Briefing
FOUR HUNDRED YEARS after the birth of one of their founders, Quakers in Cumbria celebrated where it all began on Firbank Fell with their annual outdoor meeting for worship. On 13 June 1652, George Fox spoke to 1,000 people for three hours from a rock three miles...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 15, 2024 | Briefing
IN a letter published in The Guardian on 12 June, the Rev Dr Tessa Henry-Robinson, Moderator of the United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly, responded to a suggestion that it was absurd for her as a Black British woman to deliver the URC’s apology to Black...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 13, 2024 | Briefing
EUROPE’S agriculture industry is exploiting the at least 2.4 million migrants who harvest Europe’s fruits and vegetables, according to a new report by the University of Comillas and Oxfam researchers. The report, Essential but invisible and exploited reveals...
