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 22, 2022 | Briefing
ONE YEAR AFTER the UN’s multilateral Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force, CND has launched a substantive report on the new treaty and its implications for British nuclear policies. The report, Nuclear weapons are banned! What...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 22, 2022 | Briefing
THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (WCC) has supported a renewed call issued by interreligious leaders from the United States for the prison at Guantánamo Bay to be closed, and for justice for those being held. In a letter from, among more than two dozen others, the...
by Staff Writer | Jan 21, 2022 | Briefing
THE UK MINISTRY OF JUSTICE has made limited progress on its Female Offender Strategy to improve outcomes for women in the criminal justice systemic England because it has not prioritised investment in this work, according to a report from the National Audit Office...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 21, 2022 | Briefing
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS (RSA) has published the findings of a survey looking at the economic security of young people aged 16-24 in the United Kingdom. It forms part of the RSA’s Young people’s future health and economic security project, supported by the Health...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 20, 2022 | Briefing
NEW ANALYSIS from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds households on low incomes will be spending on average 18 per cent of their income after housing costs on energy bills after April. For single adult households on low incomes this rises to a shocking 54 per cent,...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 20, 2022 | Briefing
THE INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS (ICAN) and PAX, the largest peace organisation in the Netherlands, have released the 2022 ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ report, Rejecting Risk. The report finds that the number of financial institutions with...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 19, 2022 | Briefing
THE CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT (CND) has launched a new campaign –Talks not Bombs – to get Britain to attend a crucial nuclear disarmament conference. The First Meeting of States Parties (1MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), will...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 19, 2022 | Briefing
A JOINT INVESTIGATION by Access Now, an organisation defending digital rights of users at risk globally and the Citizen Lab, an organisation that studies digital threats to civil society has identified the use of NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware against...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 18, 2022 | Briefing
THE WORLD’S TEN RICHEST MEN more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion – at a rate of $1.3 billion a day – during the first two years of a pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall and over 160 million more...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 18, 2022 | Briefing
IPPR NORTH, a dedicated think tank for the north of England with bases in Manchester and Newcastle, has published research showing that despite the rhetoric, the UK is more regionally divided than ever – and that central government policy has so far undermined the...
