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...
