by Agency Reporter | Aug 15, 2024 | Briefing
PRICES rose at historically high rates over the period 2021-2023, with food and drink prices rising by 28.4 per cent. These price rises had uneven impacts across households, depending on the types of products that they buy. The fact that food prices rose more than...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 14, 2024 | Briefing
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is resuming its work in support of Tucson-based non-profit groups that are bringing humanitarian aid to migrants and asylum seekers crossing the US-Mexico border near the Sonoran Desert, the organisation has...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 14, 2024 | Briefing
THE SUTTON TRUST has analysed the education backgrounds of the Team GB medallists at the Paris Olympic games. The majority attended comprehensive schools, but athletes from fee paying schools are still disproportionately overrepresented. The Sutton Trust says that...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 13, 2024 | Briefing
QUAKERS and Quaker-related peace workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have undertaken training in peacebuilding. The sessions, co-ordinated by Congolese Quakers and delivered for the first time in Swahili, aimed to develop a team of facilitators to...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 13, 2024 | Briefing
THE National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has written to the National Police Chiefs’ Council, saying attempts by police forces to strong-arm photographers and videographers into handing over images is an affront to media freedom and puts their safety at risk. Following...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 12, 2024 | Briefing
THE Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has raised concerns to the United Nations (UN) about the different experiences many people from different ethnic minority groups face across healthcare, justice and employment in England and Wales. The EHRC’s latest...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 12, 2024 | Briefing
THE need for a clear strategy on the role, purpose and future of Victorian prisons is explored in a briefing published by the University of Birmingham and the University of Bath, in partnership with the Howard League for Penal Reform. The policy briefing, Making...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 11, 2024 | Briefing
PROVIDING free specialist legal advice could save the government £4.5 billion for every half a million people who receive it, a new report has found, as leading legal organisations renew calls to “spend to save on justice”. The new report The value of justice for all,...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 10, 2024 | Briefing
ENGLAND now has 13 million more bedrooms than it did in the 1990s, with more than one fifth of homes now containing four or more bedrooms. Yet this has not been enough to bring down overcrowding, according to new Resolution Foundation research. The Foundation’s latest...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 10, 2024 | Briefing
GULF STATES are failing to protect outdoor migrant workers experiencing dangerous, heat-related health risks as global warming-fuelled heatwaves envelope the region, says Human Rights Watch. Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
