by Agency Reporter | Aug 30, 2023 | Briefing
FINDING safe water supplies for drought-stricken communities is becoming increasingly difficult as a result of climate change, Oxfam has warned as it published a report on the dire humanitarian cost of increased water scarcity. The report, Water Dilemmas, describes...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 29, 2023 | Briefing
UK DEAF and Disabled People’s Organisations have launched a report evaluating the UK government’s performance, seven years on from a United Nations finding of grave and systematic violations of disabled people’s rights, due to austerity and welfare reform. Those...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 29, 2023 | Briefing
UNITED NATIONS human rights experts have sounded the alarm over the significant human rights impact Saudi Aramco and its financial backers have across the world through the state-run oil company’s outsized contribution to the climate crisis. The warning comes after...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 28, 2023 | Briefing
A NEW report, Defending our Democratic Space, documents cumulative threats over more than a decade to vital elements of our democracy that enable people to have a voice, amplify that voice to decision-makers, and help hold politicians to account. The report calls on...
by Staff Writer | Aug 28, 2023 | Briefing
NEW FIGURES published by Age UK show that the Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS) Alternative Fund, designed to give £400 to households that receive their energy supply indirectly via a landlord, site owner, or other intermediary, has failed to reach almost four in...
by Staff Writer | Aug 27, 2023 | Briefing
DEFENCE and Security Equipment International (DSEI), one of the world’s largest arms fairs, takes place every two years at the ExCel exhibition centre in London’s Docklands. DSEI 2021 featured over 1,600 exhibitors, including most of the world’s biggest arms...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 26, 2023 | Briefing
ORGANISATIONS representing hundreds of thousands of health and care professionals, and the millions who use their services, warn that so many people are routinely going without the essentials it poses a serious risk to the UK’s health. In a letter to the Prime...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 26, 2023 | Briefing
YOUNG LEADERS from the world’s most climate-affected regions will gather from 28 August to 2 September at a Climate Justice Camp in Lebanon. The 450 participants from almost 100 countries across the Global South will co-create strategies and demands calling on...
by Jill Segger | Aug 25, 2023 | Commentary
ULEZ. The oddly euphonious acronym has shown itself central to the combination of misrepresentation and fear which has come to characterise so much of current political discourse. That the air quality in our capital city is an ongoing cause for concern is well known....
by Agency Reporter | Aug 25, 2023 | Briefing
OVER one in three (35 per cent) English households – equivalent to 7.2 million households – will see higher energy bills this winter than they did last winter, including almost half (47 per cent) of those in the poorest tenth of households, according to new Resolution...
