by Agency Reporter | Aug 25, 2024 | Briefing
THE United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has said that there needs to be a suspension of the UK government’s controversial Prevent strategy. Amnesty has long campaigned for Prevent to be abolished due to the considerable evidence that...
by Simon Barrow | Aug 24, 2024 | Update
TWENTY-TWO YEARS after our founding in 2002, Ekklesia will be ceasing its work as a think-tank and a daily provider of news briefings after the week commencing 9 September 2024 – but we are pleased to say that its book publishing operation, a newsletter, and an...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 24, 2024 | Briefing
NEW data from the NSPCC shows that contacts to their Helpline about children being physically punished have tripled in the last year. Between April 2023 and March 2024, the NSPCC Helpline handled 1,451 child welfare contacts from across the UK where physical...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 24, 2024 | Briefing
TRANSPORT ACTION NETWORK (TAN) has welcomed the publication of the Rail and urban transport review, led by Juergen Maier. The review was commissioned by Labour when in opposition, to help the UK deliver rail and urban transport infrastructure for the next 50 years....
by Agency Reporter | Aug 23, 2024 | Briefing
THE TUC has warned that companies are advertising vacancies that pay below the minimum wage, on online job boards. The TUC believes this could be the tip of the iceberg, with dozens of non-compliant jobs being posted on boards every week. The union body is calling on...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 23, 2024 | Briefing
GLOBAL JUSTICE NOW has commissioned Sam Fowles of Cornerstone Barristers to provide a legal opinion on whether the UK could be in breach of international law for wrongs committed by the Israeli state or Israeli personnel. The possible breaches come as a result of...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 22, 2024 | Briefing
US Christians for Ceasefire engaged in a prayerful nonviolent action in a military zone near the crossing into Gaza on 18 August. The 12 US and three Palestinian Christian leaders appealing for a just peace were confronted by Israeli guards at the Kerem Shalom...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 22, 2024 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH from Citizens Advice reveals that one in four people (25 per cent, the equivalent of 16.5 million people) are so worried about increases in energy costs that they say they will be forced to turn off their heating and hot water this winter. This increases...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 21, 2024 | Briefing
THE Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, as the September deadline for the closure of the Household Support Fund approaches. The Household Support Fund (HSF) provides payments to help people in poverty...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 21, 2024 | Briefing
A TOTAL of 96 cases of people being detained or arrested for opposing the controversial East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) have been reported in the past nine months, with the number of arrests surging recently. In December 2023, Global Witness released a report,...
