by Agency Reporter | Nov 29, 2023 | Briefing
LEADING paediatricians, dentists and social care workers have written to the Home Secretary urging him to reconsider the use of x-rays as methods of age assessments for children seeking asylum in the UK. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), the...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 28, 2023 | Briefing
IN the run up to COP28, a new report on the state of the nation’s food industry finds UK retail and food service sectors are failing to take action on key environmental measures Despite the UK National Food Strategy recommending a 30 per cent reduction in meat...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 28, 2023 | Briefing
LOWER-INCOME countries have been forced to pay out $2.7 trillion in interest payments to creditors since 1970, according to new a new report by Debt Justice. Western creditors have received the vast majority (82 per cent) of these interest payments, making returns of...
by Jill Segger | Nov 27, 2023 | Commentary
REMEMBRANCE-TIDE is over and now, the space for further reflection. A time to stand back from the division and anger engendered by the former Home Secretary and to consider what it may mean in these harrowing, divisive and contentious times to remember the dead of so...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 27, 2023 | Briefing
THE United Arab Emirates has ignored calls from international civil society to demonstrate it respects human rights ahead of the COP28 climate change conference, says Amnesty International. The hosts of COP28 – which begins this week – have refused to release...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 27, 2023 | Briefing
THE disproportionate use of PAVA incapacitant spray on Black, Black British and Muslim prisoners is now so firmly established that it has become normalised, according to a new analysis published by the Prison Reform Trust. The briefing reveals that since PAVA spray...
by Staff Writer | Nov 26, 2023 | Briefing
INDEPENDENT food banks cannot see how they will get through this winter, as yet more people are forced to turn to charity to feed themselves and their families, says the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN). Measures in the Autumn Statement do not provide the help...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 25, 2023 | Briefing
THE poorest quarter of households will be £210 per week short of an acceptable standard of living by April 2024, as the measures announced by the Chancellor in his Autumn Statement fail to protect those who are struggling the most, new analysis by the New Economics...
by Staff Writer | Nov 25, 2023 | Briefing
SHIPMENTS of the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331,200 doses arriving in Yaoundé, Cameroon on 21 November. The delivery is the first to a country not previously involved in the malaria vaccine pilot programme, and signals that...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 24, 2023 | Briefing
THE collapse of Gaza’s hospitals and healthcare system, coupled with the catastrophic living conditions, is resulting in babies dying of preventable causes, Oxfam says. Newborns up to three months old are dying of diarrhoea, hypothermia, dehydration and infection as...
