by Staff Writer | Mar 14, 2024 | Briefing
AROUND one in five children in Northern Ireland are living in relative poverty, before housing costs. A report published by Northern Ireland’s Comptroller and Auditor General, Dorinnia Carville, on 12 March also highlighted the fact that eight per cent of...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 13, 2024 | Briefing
SUPPORTERS of the international development agency Christian Aid are heading for London this week to lobby MPs over the crisis in the Middle East. They are calling for politicians to meet with their constituents and discuss the desperate need for an end to the...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 13, 2024 | Briefing
A HISTORIC Racial Justice Act hearing has illustrated the discrimination inherent in North Carolina’s death penalty. The evidence showed a clear and persistent pattern of racial bias in jury exclusions that denies people of colour the opportunity to serve on capital...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 12, 2024 | Briefing
A whistleblower who raised concerns that corrupt payments totalling many millions of pounds were being regularly paid to high-ranking Saudi officials to secure a huge defence deal for British defence company GPT Special Projects Management Limited (GPT) is taking...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 12, 2024 | Briefing
THE Youth Select Committee has launched a report on the impact of the cost of living on young people’s health and wellbeing, which concludes that transformative economic shifts have impacted young people’s emotional, physical and mental wellbeing. The Committee, which...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 11, 2024 | Briefing
THE number of nurses actively planning to leave England for better pay and conditions abroad has soared in recent years, with the number rising more than four-fold between 2018/19 and 2022/23, new official figures disclosed to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 11, 2024 | Briefing
AMNESTY International UK has sharply criticised the advertising approval agency Clearcast, for preventing Amnesty from screening adverts on human rights issues. Amnesty had sought permission to broadcast an advert purporting to be a trailer for a supposed new drama...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 10, 2024 | Briefing
OFFICE of National Statistics (ONS) data released on 8 March reveals that the UK now has nearly 30 per cent more jobs in the renewable energy industry than it did in 2015. In the same period, the UK’s oil and gas industry lost nearly 30 per cent of its jobs, despite...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 9, 2024 | Briefing
UN HUMAN Rights Chief Volker Türk has deplored Israel’s latest actions regarding the occupied West Bank, saying the drastic acceleration in settlement building is exacerbating long-standing patterns of oppression, violence and discrimination against Palestinians....
by Agency Reporter | Mar 9, 2024 | Briefing
FORMULA ONE arrives in Saudi Arabia at a time when the authorities are carrying out mass executions. There have already been five this year, most recently this Tuesday, as teams arrived for the Grand Prix. Saudi Arabia has executed 43 people this year and is on track...
