by Agency Reporter | Aug 9, 2023 | Briefing
SIX MONTHS after the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is calling for urgent support to affected communities still reeling from the impacts of the disaster. Although recovery...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 8, 2023 | Briefing
SIXTY-FIVE per cent of women’s working hours are unpaid every week and excluded from official measures of economic activity, an Oxfam report has found. Radical Pathways Beyond GDP highlights how unpaid care – which accounts for forty-five per cent of all adults’...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 8, 2023 | Briefing
ACCORDING to a new lawsuit in the USA, the Detroit Police Department has wrongly arrested yet another person based on a faulty facial recognition match. Porcha Woodruff, who was eight months pregnant at the time, is the sixth person to report being falsely accused of...
by Staff Writer | Aug 7, 2023 | Briefing
OVER £1.7billion is sitting waiting to be claimed by almost a million young adults, at an average value of approximately £1,900 each. In a report on Child Trust Funds (CTFs), the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) finds that the amount potentially sitting unclaimed in...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 7, 2023 | Briefing
THE British Medical Association (BMA) says a decision by NHS England to significantly reduce the fee that GPs are paid to deliver Covid vaccines undervalues general practice and threatens the safety of vulnerable patients. The decision comes after a series of talks...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 6, 2023 | Briefing
CAMPAIGN for Nuclear Disarmament groups across Britain are gathering this weekend to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the tragic atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on 6 and 9 August 1945. Events will take place nationwide, honouring the memory of the...
by Staff Writer | Aug 5, 2023 | Briefing
SCHOOLS that remain within their local councils in England have continued to outshine those that converted to academies, according to research commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA). A new report, analysing Ofsted inspection outcomes by school type,...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 5, 2023 | Briefing
AMNESTY International has launched a guide, What to do if you think the PSNI has been spying on you, for journalists in Northern Ireland. The security guidance comes in the aftermath of news that the phone records of Belfast-based journalist Barry McCaffrey were...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 4, 2023 | Briefing
INSECURE employment is widespread in the UK labour market, according to new research by the Living Wage Foundation. One in five UK workers (19 per cent) are in insecure jobs, while one in ten (10 per cent) are in insecure jobs that also pay below the real Living Wage....
by Staff Writer | Aug 4, 2023 | Briefing
INTERNATIONAL development charity Christian Aid has warned that the UK Government’s cuts to the aid budget represent a “betrayal of the world’s most marginalised people” and is calling on Ministers to restore the aid budget and “cancel the debt of...
