by Staff Writer | Aug 4, 2024 | Briefing
FOLLOWING the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Archbishop of Canterbury has urged governments around the world to reverse the “deeply damaging trend” of upholding...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 3, 2024 | Briefing
AGE UK has launched an emergency petition to help save the Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) for struggling pensioners, and after little more than 48 hours approaching 100,000 people had already signed it. The petition calls on the Government to halt their proposed change to...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 3, 2024 | Briefing
THREE key Amazonian Indigenous organisations have issued an unprecedented joint statement, accusing the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) of deliberately delaying a decision on whether to withdraw certification from a notorious logging company on uncontacted peoples’...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 2, 2024 | Briefing
THERE are too many ‘complicating factors’ for Assisted Dying/Assisted Suicide (AD/AS) to be implemented safely, finds a new poll of the British public. The poll’s findings show that behind the headline figures of support for AD/AS, the public...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 2, 2024 | Briefing
INTERNATIONAL development agency Christian Aid has announced the Very Rev Sally Foster-Fulton, who has been Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for the past year, is now returning to the organisation, in a new role. Foster-Fulton, who took a...
by Bob Carling | Aug 1, 2024 | Commentary
THIS BOOK IS a very important one in the transgender ‘debate’. That I put the word in quotes is deliberate because what passes for debate about ‘trans issues’ is too often characterised, on both sides, by gross disinformation that is hard to decipher. This often leads...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 1, 2024 | Briefing
RISING workplace sickness is costing UK businesses billions every year, according to a new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The analysis reveals the annual hidden cost of employee sickness has risen by £30 billion since 2018. Most of this...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 1, 2024 | Briefing
FOLLOWING the news that the UK government has delayed making a decision on arms exports to Israel, War On Want, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and Campaign Against Arms Trade released the following joint statement: The UK government’s delay in making a decision on...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 31, 2024 | Briefing
HOLIDAY childcare costs in Great Britain have risen by six per cent since last summer, with working parents now facing an average bill of £175 per child per week, according to Coram Family and Childcare’s 19th annual Holiday Childcare Survey. The report also reveals...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 31, 2024 | Briefing
PALESTINIAN children in Israeli-run prisons have told Save the Children of facing increasing hunger and abuse, including sexual violence, with conditions deteriorating markedly since the start of the war last October, and contagious diseases such as scabies on the...
