by Agency Reporter | Aug 30, 2024 | Briefing
HUMAN rights organisation Liberty has questioned the new Government’s “concerning disregard for the rule of law” as the Home Office has instructed lawyers to proceed with an appeal against a recent High Court ruling that anti-protest legislation had been created...
by Bernadette Meaden | Aug 29, 2024 | Commentary
IN almost everything I have written for Ekklesia for more than a decade, there has been one underlying theme – austerity. Whether it is poverty, hunger, the housing crisis, the state of the NHS or our prisons, roads and schools, the fundamental cause of all the...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 29, 2024 | Briefing
ISRAELI forces failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimise harm to civilians sheltering at camps for internally-displaced people while carrying out two attacks targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the south of Gaza in May, said Amnesty International...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 29, 2024 | Briefing
RULES which prevent migrant health and care workers accessing vital benefits for at least five years are causing severe hardship and, in some cases, leaving people going without food, a new Royal College of Nursing (RCN) report reveals. The impact of the rules has...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 28, 2024 | Briefing
AS the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games begin, it has been announced that Para athletics sprinter Guillaume Junior Atangana will be the Refugee Paralympic Team’s flagbearer at today’s Opening Ceremony. Representing more than 120 million forcibly displaced people worldwide,...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 28, 2024 | Briefing
THE adoption of new transitional justice legislation in Nepal marks an important step in the nation’s long journey towards accountability and reconciliation, says UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk. “Eighteen years since the end of the decade-long conflict, and after...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 27, 2024 | Briefing
NEW figures obtained by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) reveal that 12,000 firefighter posts have been lost to cuts since 2010, leaving the UK without the resilience needed to guarantee public safety. One in five firefighter jobs (21 per cent) across the UK have been...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 27, 2024 | Briefing
MEN in England are facing “a silent health crisis”, dying nearly four years earlier than women, while suffering disproportionately higher rates of cancers, heart disease and type 2 diabetes, according to a new report by the Local Government Association (LGA). The...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 26, 2024 | Briefing
A FIFTH of patients in some areas of the North of England have Long Covid, according to a study which includes University of Manchester researchers. Navigating the Long Haul: Understanding Long Covid in Northern England, published by Health Equity North, reveals the...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 26, 2024 | Briefing
MIGRANT fishermen who have been recognised as victims of modern slavery on UK vessels are seeking compensation from the Government, after human rights lawyers took up their case. Leigh Day partner Stephanie Hill represents a small group of Ghanaian fishermen in legal...
