by Agency Reporter | Mar 28, 2024 | Briefing
AS Yemen enters its tenth year of war, its people face renewed airstrikes and a deepening economic crisis that risks pushing millions into starvation, Oxfam has warned. This week marks nine years since the escalation of the conflict. A temporary UN-brokered truce...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 27, 2024 | Briefing
AS many as eight million people face being disenfranchised at the next election due to an electoral registration system which is neither effective nor efficient, says the cross-party Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee in a new report. The report finds...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 27, 2024 | Briefing
SINCE the 2015 Paris climate agreement, European banks have lent about €256 billion to corporations that put forests, savannahs and other climate critical natural ecosystems at risk, according to new research. The study, published by Greenpeace International,...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 26, 2024 | Briefing
THE decision on 24 March by Israeli authorities to reject United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) food convoys into northern Gaza will accelerate the risk of famine and send already starving children more quickly to their graves, says aid...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 26, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK is one of many countries that considers itself to be in the midst of a housing crisis. But a comparison of housing costs, floorspace, quality and wider price levels across countries reveals that households in Britain are paying more for less, and that our...
