by Staff Writer | Aug 10, 2023 | Briefing
JACQUELINE McKenzie leads a team of lawyers who specialise in immigration and civil rights cases at law firm Leigh Day. She was a member of the independent advisory group that delivered the Windrush Lessons Learned Review in March 2020, which led to an official...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 10, 2023 | Briefing
VISITING COLOMBIA on 8-11 August, a World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation has expressed solidarity with the Colombian government, churches and people as they collaborate in the design, implementation and advocacy for the construction of peace in the country. Led...
by Staff Writer | Aug 9, 2023 | Briefing
JESUIT Refugee Service UK (JRS UK) released the following statement on 7 August, in response to the news that asylum seekers had been moved on to the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland harbour, Dorset. JRS UK are outraged to learn that people seeking asylum have now...
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...
