by Agency Reporter | Jun 3, 2023 | Briefing
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT has voted on its position on a new corporate accountability law, which will introduce rules to prevent large companies doing business in Europe from damaging the environment or threatening human rights. It also states they could be brought to...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 2, 2023 | Briefing
MUTUALLY reinforcing crises, including rising debt levels, are disproportionately affecting developing countries, worsening the global employment divide between high-income and low-income countries and widening existing inequalities exacerbated by the Covid-19...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 2, 2023 | Briefing
SCOTLAND’S ECONOMY is missing out on up to £2.4 billion a year due to the UK and Scottish government’s failure to eradicate poverty – with billions more being spent tackling the consequences of poverty which could be better used to prevent it. But change is...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 1, 2023 | Briefing
ONE of the largest ever civil disobedience demonstrations took place at USAF Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire, between the 31 May and 3 June 1983. The base was then home to eight F-111 planes armed with live nuclear weapons always on standby. More than 5,000 people took...
by Staff Writer | Jun 1, 2023 | Briefing
IN A LANDMARK judgment handed down in the High Court in England on Friday 26 May, humanist Steve Bowen successfully challenged his local authority’s attempt to block him from the council’s religious education committee. In his decision, Mr Justice Constable concluded...
by Staff Writer | May 31, 2023 | Briefing
UNITE THE UNION has condemned budget cuts imposed by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris MP, after a report emerged revealing that Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure is actively considering a policy of ceasing...
