by Agency Reporter | Nov 29, 2023 | Briefing
LEADING paediatricians, dentists and social care workers have written to the Home Secretary urging him to reconsider the use of x-rays as methods of age assessments for children seeking asylum in the UK. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), the...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 28, 2023 | Briefing
IN the run up to COP28, a new report on the state of the nation’s food industry finds UK retail and food service sectors are failing to take action on key environmental measures Despite the UK National Food Strategy recommending a 30 per cent reduction in meat...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 28, 2023 | Briefing
LOWER-INCOME countries have been forced to pay out $2.7 trillion in interest payments to creditors since 1970, according to new a new report by Debt Justice. Western creditors have received the vast majority (82 per cent) of these interest payments, making returns of...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 27, 2023 | Briefing
THE United Arab Emirates has ignored calls from international civil society to demonstrate it respects human rights ahead of the COP28 climate change conference, says Amnesty International. The hosts of COP28 – which begins this week – have refused to release...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 27, 2023 | Briefing
THE disproportionate use of PAVA incapacitant spray on Black, Black British and Muslim prisoners is now so firmly established that it has become normalised, according to a new analysis published by the Prison Reform Trust. The briefing reveals that since PAVA spray...
