by Agency Reporter | May 31, 2024 | Briefing
NEW analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) reveals how the transport system reflects wider inequalities in society, with the highest earners being the highest polluters. The richest 0.1 per cent in Britain emit 22 times more from transport than...
by Agency Reporter | May 31, 2024 | Briefing
AHEAD of the expected expansion of the End of Custody Supervised License Scheme, which could see prisoners being released up to 70 days early, a coalition of organisations working to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG) wrote to the Secretary of State for...
by Staff Writer | May 30, 2024 | Briefing
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ministers who have been listening to detainees in an immigration removal centre, reported their stories as “harrowing”. The Rev Bryan Kerr was part of a delegation which recently visited the facility in a rural location near Strathaven...
by Agency Reporter | May 30, 2024 | Briefing
PEOPLE with disabilities in Gaza have been put in extreme distress, with the expectation that they will be the first and the next to be killed because of the limited opportunities to flee or take part in evacuations due to their impairment, says the UN Committee on...
by Agency Reporter | May 29, 2024 | Briefing
MSPs have backed legislation giving councils a new power to introduce a visitor levy that would raise funding for local visitor facilities and services. The Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill will enable local authorities to apply a levy on overnight stays with all money...
by Agency Reporter | May 29, 2024 | Briefing
THIRTY SIX athletes from 11 different countries, hosted by 15 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and competing across 12 sports have been named as members of the Refugee Olympic Team for Paris 2024. Appearing at the Olympic Games for the third time, the IOC Refugee...
by Agency Reporter | May 28, 2024 | Briefing
THE International Criminal Court should investigate as war crimes three Israeli airstrikes that killed 44 Palestinian civilians, including 32 children, in Gaza last month, Amnesty International said as it published the findings of a new investigation. The attacks, one...
by Staff Writer | May 28, 2024 | Briefing
AS part of its General Election campaigning, the Conservative Party has been talking about the reintroduction of National Service for all 18 year olds within the UK. Through a combination of either military service or ‘compulsory voluntary activity’, all...
by Agency Reporter | May 27, 2024 | Briefing
TESLA has announced that the company is exploring “the need for the establishment of a no-go zone for mining to protect indigenous and human rights, particularly those of uncontacted communities”, demonstrating that the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples can be...
by Agency Reporter | May 27, 2024 | Briefing
A heatwave in Pakistan is forcing schools to close, leaving more than half the country’s school-age children locked out of the classroom. At least 26 million children in Pakistan’s most populous province, Punjab (52 per cent of the country’s total number of...
