by Agency Reporter | Feb 20, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK Government has agreed to bring in new safeguards which would protect journalists from having confidential journalistic material, such as their communications with sources, easily accessed by state bodies, following a seven-year legal challenge from human rights...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 19, 2024 | Briefing
AGENDA ALLIANCE has discovered that growing numbers of Black Caribbean girls were excluded or suspended from school during 2021/22. Data obtained from the UK Department of Education via Freedom of Information requests has found that in the 2021/22 academic year, girls...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 19, 2024 | Briefing
AN UNPRECEDENTED number of countries and international organisations are expected to participate in the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) oral hearings on Israel’s occupation, beginning today (19 February 2024)says Human Rights Watch. Fifty-two countries and...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 18, 2024 | Briefing
WITH growing frustration at the Prime Minister referring to plans to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda as being “The Will of the People”, Hurst Methodist Church in Kingsley, Cheshire has decided to challenge the government’s rhetoric. Hurst Methodist has been raising...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 17, 2024 | Briefing
HORRIFIED at the imminent closure of the crucial Inter Faith Network (IFN), Quakers are urging the government to reconsider its funding withdrawal. On 7 February, the board of the IFN agreed they must move towards closure in two weeks unless the UK government...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 17, 2024 | Briefing
NEW government figures released this month have revealed a net loss of 12,000 social homes in England last year, as sales and demolitions continue to surpass the number of homes built. The figures also show: 22,023 social homes were either sold or demolished last year...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 16, 2024 | Briefing
AHEAD OF a High Court hearing in the long-running extradition case against Julian Assange in London next week, Amnesty International has said that Assange faces the risk of serious human rights violations if extradited to the USA, and warned of a profound “chilling...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 15, 2024 | Briefing
A REPORT on Bedford prison published on 14 February reveals the full scale of problems that led HM Chief Inspector of Prisons to write to the Secretary of State for Justice in November to invoke an Urgent Notification about the state of the jail. An inner-city,...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 15, 2024 | Briefing
PEOPLE are more likely to leave work due to a heart condition than any other health issue, according to a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The think tank found that more than mental health, cancer or any other health condition, heart...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 14, 2024 | Briefing
THE traditional lover’s gift of a rose on Valentine’s Day may be under threat, according to a new report from Christian Aid which shows how climate change is impacting rose growing in Britain and around the world. Nearly 60 per cent (59 per cent) of all exported...
