by Staff Writer | Jan 26, 2024 | Briefing
THE UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, Michel Forst, has issued a statement which strongly criticises the government’s “increasingly severe crackdowns on environmental defenders in the United Kingdom, including in relation to the exercise of...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 26, 2024 | Briefing
SELF-INFLICTED deaths in prisons in England and Wales have risen by almost a quarter in the last year, with self-harm and assaults also on the rise, official data released by the Ministry of Justice reveals. A statistical bulletin, published on 25 January, shows that...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 25, 2024 | Briefing
EARLIER THIS MONTH it was announced that Universal Free School Meals for state primary school children in London will be extended for another year, whilst families across the rest on England are still facing strict eligibility criteria. The Food Foundation, an...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 25, 2024 | Briefing
MALAWI, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe are facing an unprecedented surge of cholera cases, Oxfam has warned. The aid agency says the situation could become uncontrollable and difficult to manage due to a steady increase of Covid-19 cases and the onset of the rainy...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 24, 2024 | Briefing
THE Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the Doomsday Clock for 2024 at 90 seconds to midnight, reflecting the continued state of unprecedented danger the world faces. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) warns that we are fast approaching the point of no...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 24, 2024 | Briefing
THE housing crisis is forcing older renters living on low incomes out of their homes and the communities they may have lived in most of their lives, into less familiar areas that are typically deprived, says Independent Age, the charity supporting those in financial...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 23, 2024 | Briefing
AN ONLINE SURVEY has been launched by the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC) Committee for its inquiry into what government can do to ensure disabled people have access to accessible and adaptable housing in England. The survey is designed to gather disabled...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 23, 2024 | Briefing
ANOTHER brutally cold winter in Mongolia, a country at the frontline of the global climate crisis, is putting children’s mental health and physical wellbeing at risk, owing to separation from caregivers and limited food and medicines, says Save the Children. About 90...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 22, 2024 | Briefing
GREENPEACE Nordic and Natur og Ungdom (Young Friends of the Earth Norway) have secured an historic win against the Norwegian State, rendering the approvals of three oil and gas fields in the North Sea invalid. In November 2023, environmental organisation Greenpeace...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 22, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK government is being taken to the High Court by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) together with Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq over weapons exports to Israel, after requests for the government to suspend exports were refused. A legal document...
