by Agency Reporter | Aug 19, 2023 | Briefing
THE Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has warned of the consequences of continuing inaction from governments in addressing problems faced by disabled people. In a new report submitted to the United Nations (UN), the EHRC warns that many disabled people...
by Staff Writer | Aug 19, 2023 | Briefing
THE Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs, returns to the ExCel centre in London’s Docklands, from 12 to 15 September. More than 1700 exhibitors will be marketing items such as armoured cars,...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 18, 2023 | Briefing
DISABLED people are missing out on an estimated £24 million every month because of delays to Personal Independent Payment reviews. Personal Independent Payment (PIP) is a benefit designed to help people with a disability, long term illness, or mental health condition...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 18, 2023 | Briefing
THE GOVERNMENT must recognise that of God in everyone, Quakers said this week as the ‘hostile environment’ towards those who seek our help continued to bear its dreadful fruit. At least six people drowned in the Channel on Saturday night when the small...
by Staff Writer | Aug 17, 2023 | Briefing
INSPECTORS returning to HMP Lowdham Grange found a prison in a state of turmoil following the handover from one private provider to another, the first transition of its kind. The fallout from this was affecting almost every aspect of prison life, with significant...
by Staff Writer | Aug 17, 2023 | Briefing
THE UK Commission on Bereavement (UKCB) is still waiting for action by the UK Government in response to its recommendations, which were published nearly a year ago. Released in October 2022, the report Bereavement is everybody’s business found huge gaps in...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 16, 2023 | Briefing
MORE than 40 of the UK’s leading children’s charities and child development experts have issued a warning to the Westminster Covid-19 Inquiry chair of “unacceptable delays” to taking evidence from children on lockdown. Save the Children UK, the NSPCC and the National...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 16, 2023 | Briefing
THE TALIBAN authorities have tightened their extreme restrictions on the rights of women and girls and on the media since taking took control of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, Human Rights Watch says. Over the past two years, Taliban authorities have denied women and...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 15, 2023 | Briefing
THE FREEZING of tax-free allowances since 2021 will result in the effective tax rate rising five times more for lower earners compared to higher earners in three years, according to analysis from the New Economics Foundation (NEF). The analysis finds that these...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 15, 2023 | Briefing
JOINING Quakers working for peace from across Europe, British Quakers are writing to the government of Ukraine, requesting the release of Yurii Sheliazhenko, the executive director of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement. He was arrested on charges of ‘justifying...
