by Agency Reporter | Jun 21, 2024 | Briefing
THE public believe the basic rate of universal credit (UC) for people who are unemployed should be just over half a full-time minimum wage salary (officially called the ’national living wage’), according to new polling for the New Economics Foundation...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 20, 2024 | Briefing
HEALTH and food experts and campaigners including Gordon Brown, Michael Marmot and The Food Foundation are calling for the next government to urgently address the steady decline in children’s health that has been seen over the last two decades. A new report from The...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 20, 2024 | Briefing
ON 18 June the Rev Gill Newton and Deacon Kerry Scarlett, the President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference, released the following statement on behalf of the Methodist Church in Britain. It has been over a year since fighting broke out between the Sudan...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 19, 2024 | Briefing
VOTERS are being encouraged to think critically about campaign material, as political parties and campaigners are urged to campaign transparently ahead of the forthcoming general election. The Electoral Commission is calling on all campaigners participating in the...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 19, 2024 | Briefing
WITH funds equivalent to just 2.9 percent ($35.7 billion) of their combined annual military spending, the Group of Seven (G7) countries could help end world hunger and solve the debt crisis in the Global South, reveals new Oxfam analysis. Eradicating world hunger in...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 18, 2024 | Briefing
THE TWO-CHILD LIMIT policy restricts the number of children for whom low-income families can claim additional universal credit to two (worth £3,455 per year per child). Neither the Labour nor the Conservative manifesto has referenced the limit, while the Liberal...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 18, 2024 | Briefing
THE authorities in Rwanda have cracked down on the opposition, media, and civil society ahead of general elections scheduled for 15 July 2024, reports Human Rights Watch. The authorities should ensure that all Rwandans are able to freely express their views and...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jun 17, 2024 | Commentary
IN 2021, Pope Francis addressed a Meeting of Popular Movements – activists from some of the most marginalised communities around the world, united by their struggle for justice and dignity. Beginning, “Dear Social Poets”, Pope Francis said: “This is what I like to...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 17, 2024 | Briefing
THE number of people in insecure work has reached a record high of 4.1 million, according to new TUC analysis. The number of people in precarious employment such as zero-hours-contracts, low-paid self-employment and casual/seasonal work, increased by nearly one...
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...
