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 | Jan 23, 2021 | Briefing
CAMPAIGN AGAINST ARMS TRADE has urged President Joe Biden to stick to his pledge on ending US support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen. The bombing and blockade, which began in March 2015, has created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Throughout his...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 23, 2021 | Briefing
SINGLE MOTHER Nichola Salvato has won her legal case regarding the requirement to provide proof of payment to obtain Universal Credit childcare payments. In a judgment handed down on Friday 22 January 2021, it was ruled that the Department for Work and Pensions’...
by Simon Barrow | Jan 22, 2021 | Commentary
THE WORLD TODAY faces a number of existential or near-existential threats. The climate crisis (which has repercussions in every other area of life, and hits the poorest and most vulnerable hardest) is the most prominent. The current COVID pandemic, the threat of...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 22, 2021 | Briefing
The European Union has come under pressure from a United Nations body to increase access to the EU courts in environmental matters, in line with the Aarhus Convention international treaty. The Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (ACCC), the UN body responsible for...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 22, 2021 | Briefing
DR GULI FRANCIS-DEHQUANI is to become the Church of England’s Lead Bishop for Housing to spearhead the Church’s efforts to help ease the UK’s crippling housing crisis. The announcement comes ahead of the publication next month of the findings of a major two-year...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 22, 2021 | Briefing
British Gas workers will today burn new contracts which they have been told by Chris O’Shea, head of parent company Centrica, they must sign or be fired in March. The GMB union says the contracts represent the imposition of hourly pay 15 per cent below the...
by Staff Writer | Jan 21, 2021 | Briefing
Quakers in Britain and Quaker Concern for the Abolition of Torture (Q-CAT) have briefed Peers in the UK Parlaiment’s House of Lords ahead of a debate on the Overseas Operations Bill – the so-called ‘Spy Cops’ legislation. The Society of Friends...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 21, 2021 | Briefing
The Prison Service in England and Wales has failed for more than a decade to deal effectively with young adult prisoners, missing opportunities to help them rehabilitate and putting communities at risk from reoffending, according to HM Chief Inspector of Prisons....
by Agency Reporter | Jan 20, 2021 | Briefing
The Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has welcomed the imminent Entry into Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) as a step towards a nuclear weapons-free world. The Treaty, which will ban nuclear weapons under international law in...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jan 20, 2021 | Commentary
Green Burial by Martin Hayden. Published by The Garlic Press. Price £10. Many years ago I spoke to a veteran activist in the peace movement. When I asked him why he did what he did, he said, “It’s my love song to the world.” This book feels very much like a love song...
