by Agency Reporter | May 4, 2024 | Briefing
A TAX on the extraction of fossil fuels in the world’s richest advanced economies could raise $720 billion by the end of the decade to support the world’s most vulnerable facing climate damages, a new report has revealed. The Climate Damages Tax report is backed by...
by Staff Writer | May 4, 2024 | Briefing
A NEW report from the All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) on both Migration and Poverty says that the UK’s migration policy causes destitution by design, leaves people vulnerable to exploitation and crime, and increases the costs paid by society. The joint inquiry...
by Agency Reporter | May 3, 2024 | Briefing
CHRISTIAN campaigning organisation, JustMoney Movement, is attending HSBC’s AGM in London today (Friday 3 May), calling on the bank to take urgent action on the global plastics crisis. The AGM is taking place at InterContinental London O2, where the bank’s board and...
by Agency Reporter | May 3, 2024 | Briefing
BISHOP Paul Swarbrick, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference’s Lead Bishop for Africa, and Bishop Nick Baines, the Church of England’s Lead Bishop for Foreign Affairs, have issued a joint statement on the conflict in Sudan, saying the war is “a forgotten conflict with no...
by Agency Reporter | May 2, 2024 | Briefing
THE leading global expert on health inequalities and Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE), Professor Sir Michael Marmot, has written a damning letter to party leaders and MPs across the country, after a new UCL IHE report confirmed that UK government...
by Agency Reporter | May 2, 2024 | Briefing
GLOBAL dividend payments to shareholders grew an average of 14 times faster than worker pay across 31 countries, which together account for 81 per cent of global GDP, over the last three years, analysis from Oxfam reveals. In the UK, accounting for inflation,...
by Agency Reporter | May 1, 2024 | Briefing
EXTREME heat has forced the closure of all schools in Bangladesh as temperatures soared to 42°C (108 °F), 16 degrees more than the annual average, says Save the Children. Thirty three million children are affected. This is the second consecutive year that Bangladesh...
by Agency Reporter | May 1, 2024 | Briefing
EVERY YEAR an estimated 300,000 people across England and Wales are forced to move home following the death of someone they lived with. According to the end of life charity, Marie Curie, that is more than one in ten (11 per cent) bereaved people, and the problem is...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 30, 2024 | Briefing
IN RESPONSE to the anti-war protests at colleges across the country, and the disturbing arrests that have followed, the American Civil Liberties Union has sent a letter to leaders at both public and private universities. The letter states: “As you fashion responses to...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 30, 2024 | Briefing
PAY PACKETS are still worth less than in 2008 in nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of UK local authorities, according to new TUC analysis. The analysis of official statistics shows that 16 years on from the global financial crisis, wages are set to be lower – in real...
