by Agency Reporter | Apr 9, 2024 | Briefing
A MULTI AGENCY MISSION led by the World Health Organisation (WHO) accessed Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza on 5 April to conduct a preliminary assessment of the extent of destruction and identify needs to guide future efforts to restore the facility. The highly...
by Bernadette Meaden | Apr 8, 2024 | Commentary
EVERY CHILD born in the UK, whatever their circumstances, is a member of our society. Society has a choice – we can do our best to support and nurture those children, to help them grow into healthy, happy adults, or we can turn our backs on them, allow them to...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 8, 2024 | Briefing
AN analysis by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and The Women’s Budget Group (WBG) has found that the cost of the barriers to paid work encountered by women – such as caregiving responsibilities, gender bias in recruitment and attitudes towards aging –...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 8, 2024 | Briefing
TO mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, released a statement, in which he warned against dehumanising hatred, incitement and discrimination, and reminded States of the need...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 7, 2024 | Briefing
NEW analysis by Age UK has found around 4.7million people in the UK aged 65 and over, are unable to complete all eight of the most fundamental tasks required to use the internet successfully. These include being able to turn on devices and enter account logins, use...
by Staff Writer | Apr 6, 2024 | Briefing
CHRISTIAN AID Head of Middle East Policy and Advocacy, William Bell, has confirmed that the charity will not scale down its work in Gaza. “The devastating deaths of seven more aid workers, in addition to the numerous Palestinian aid workers and more than 32,000...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 6, 2024 | Briefing
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has written to the Prime Minister condemning his recent comment on pay for nursing staff. Appearing on Talk TV the prime minister, speaking about pay and resolving industrial action, said that “the good news is we’ve resolved it with...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 5, 2024 | Briefing
QUAKERS will re-enact a meeting for worship in Gracechurch Street, London, which led to the now-threatened right of juries to rule according to their convictions. On Sunday, 7 April, Quakers will meet in silence to defend the right, established during the trial of two...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 5, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK government and arms industry is complicit in Israel’s killing of seven aid workers in Gaza, including three British citizens, says Campaign Against Arms Trade. The workers were killed by a strike from a Hermes 450 drone manufactured by Elbit Systems. The...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 4, 2024 | Briefing
TO support journalists in the region affected by the war in Gaza, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has established a new press freedom centre in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. This follows the opening of two centres in Ukraine in the aftermath of Russia’s...
