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...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 14, 2023 | Briefing
A LEGAL challenge over the government’s decision to approve a controversial new coal mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, has been delayed until a separate, but potentially significant, legal case reaches its conclusion. Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate...
